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One teaspoon of fertile soil (4 ml) contains 200 nematodes, a quarter-million algae, a quarter-million protozoa, half a million fungi, 12 million actinomycetes, and 100 million bacteria, all interconnected in a living web – soil is alive. The growing roots of the plants are an intimate part of the web, and so are the animals that eat the plants, including us, all caught up in an ever-turning wheel of wholeness and health.
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n the US, farms smaller than 27 acres have more than 10 times the dollar-per-acre output of larger farms.
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In Thailand, farms of two to four acres produce 60% more rice per acre than bigger farms do. In Taiwan the net income per acre of farms of less than 1.25 acres is nearly double that of farms over five acres. In Latin America, small farms are three to 14 times more productive per acre than the large farms. Across the Third World, small farms are 2-10 times more productive per acre than larger farm
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"Conversion to small organic farms would lead to sizeable increases of food production worldwide," said yet another study.
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Patrick MartinAccount of overland trip to raise environmental awareness
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