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Local Sustainable (supermarkets supports the industrial food industry pg…
Local Sustainable
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industrial food machine stretches over thousands of miles it runs on fossil fuels and create tons of waste and pollution. pg 173
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When Joel lets his chickens loose in the pasture, he is using their natural instinct to clean up after herbivores. pg.192
Polyface's, it was underwood that the trees helped the grass grow and the forest fed the farm. pg.197
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few thousand pounds of nitrogen to the pasture with there own droppings and produce several thousands rich and tasty eggs. pg 170
no fossils or fuels added, fertilizer or chemicals. pg 171
the soil will be deeper and richer, more fertilizer, not even springier underfoot (thanks to the increase earthworms). pg 171
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During the winter, the cows and other animals come off the pastures and into the barns. But Polyface's "beyond organic" methods don't stop, they just move indoors. pg.193
Joel just leaves the manure where it falls. Every few days he covers it with a layer of woodchips or straw. pg 194
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As Joel puts it's "most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer hes doing something wrong" pg. 196
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