Land Sabbath might help.

[Woodznutz]

Ancient Israel fallowed the land every 7th year, allowing it to rest and regenerate. We should try this as well. Any wild growth during that season would be plowed under the next adding nutrients which would reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. It also interrupts damaging insect cycles that feed on food crops.

 

[Polishprince]

Ancient Israel fallowed the land every 7th year, allowing it to rest and regenerate. We should try this as well. Any wild growth during that season would be plowed under the next adding nutrients which would reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. It also interrupts damaging insect cycles that feed on food crops.

The process of allowing plots of land to stay fallow for a season to recover can be useful for certain kinds of soil, but certainly not all.

Just because something was a good idea in ancient Israel, doesn't make it ideal in 21st century America.

 

[Woodznutz]

The process of allowing plots of land to stay fallow for a season to recover can be useful for certain kinds of soil, but certainly not all.

Just because something was a good idea in ancient Israel, doesn't make it ideal in 21st century America.

Think Soil Bank Program and Conservation Reserve Program.

 

[d0gbreath]

Ancient Israel fallowed the land every 7th year, allowing it to rest and regenerate. We should try this as well. Any wild growth during that season would be plowed under the next adding nutrients which would reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. It also interrupts damaging insect cycles that feed on food crops.

US farmers have been paid to crop rotate for as long as I can remember. The dust bowl probably prompted such activity.