• @idiomaddict
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    11 month ago

    If you’ve got the luxury, you can also let fields go fallow and rotate crops to avoid fertilizer. That obviously requires more land though

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        1 month ago

        Does that work long term on a commercial scale without egg shells/ bone meal? Afaik, there needs to be an additional source of calcium, but that could of course also supplement crop rotation/fallowing.

        Though tbf, limestone is very soft and I could see supplementing with ground limestone.

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          11 month ago

          Eggs shells don’t work unless they’re ground into a very fine powder.

          I don’t know the answer to this question. You may be right. And yea, I can see limestone in the right doses working.

          And we could always extract the nutrients from our waste. Close the cycle: what goes in, goes out. We’re already using biosolids in agriculture.