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[–] middle_path [S] ago 

You don't have to agree with everything I say, but those are my ethics. If the world demands crops that "require" chemical intervention, than perhaps we should look at different crops.

We have done this for thousands of years without chemical fertilizers, so obviously there are methods that don't involve them. I'm out to prove that for the home gardener you don't need these things.

Also, manure can be free from the right person - I don't pay a dime since I know someone with horses who has a shit ton of manure. A lot of it is already aged as well. A home gardener could also have chickens or rabbits to provide manure at very little cost if managed properly.

And let's not get into pesticides or GMOs. If you want to have a whole debate, go over to v/gardening. I don't approve of their use and I have guests coming over tonight, so I would rather not get into all this now.

There may be times when -cides and fertilizers may be the only option, but marketing is making the home gardener and commercial farmer use way more than nessesary.

The point is, this shit is going to run out. It may be a while off, but why wait? We are not starving and we have time to expirament with organic methods, ancient man managed and I think with all our research and technology we can do it too. I have read a lot of books from a lot of authors who do not use chemicals or GMOs. Yet the produce an abundance of food. I know this is possible.