by Did67 » 18/04/20, 08:22
I discover - in general, I come to econology via alert messages in my mailbox; so directly on my usual sons, without going through the starting box ...
There seems to me to be a very interesting agronomic aspect in this idea of a project: replacing a semi-waste (compost), an authentic total agronomic recovery of waste (individual or collective) [in other words: nourishing a living soil with biomass with which we feed "wankers" producing non-valued heat in a heap - that's composting].
Even if composting has been an advance in terms of "treatment" of organic waste, compared to landfilling or low recovery by combustion, the positive impact of the input of fresh organic matter, not composted, on a market gardening system is today obvious ... I am not "autonomist" - those who read me elsewhere know it -, but on the contrary, we must not rule out initiatives that can go in the direction of short circuits - even very short -: vegetables - waste - vegetables ...
So for me, agronomically, the question is: for how long will our societies be able to afford the luxury of sending most of the energy contained in a biomass wrongly called "waste" into the air. we better call it "excellent food for organisms capable of working the soil for us and feeding our vegetables" ???
Afterwards, as in any project which is not "classic", everything remains to be imagined, to be evaluated. Including the nature and quantities of biomass. Including how to get a large audience to subscribe, to guarantee quality sorting. Including "who does what?". Including, at the end: "who pays what?" ...
Being a former member of a French NGO, I am still amazed to what extent we find (well we found!) Normal that THE solution to famine in the Sahel was the introduction of "market gardening perimeters" (there have been some projects, and appeals for donations, and mobilized energies!), which is anything but simple in local conditions, and to what extent, with us, a small project, with all the means we have and the level of education, seems problematic. To the point of seeming "impossible".
"They didn't know it was impossible, so they did!" (Mark Twain). This is in my powerpoint and in all my conferences ...
Of course, I support this reflection. Not necessarily always here publicly, given certain reactions (imports of "debates" from elsewhere - I put in quotation marks: sometimes arguments of poorly finished teens that tire me or battle of egos).
By chance I was consulted on two or three projects of "the same nature" - a mayor who would like to do better than a simple shared garden (located by chance next to a waste reception center), a group of citizens who 'questions in the vein of the post-Covid ... That delights me.
Because seems to me an excellent alternative to cream pies like "urban farm" stuffed with LEDs and fed with hydroponic solutions - a dead end in which armies of the blind will be shattered!
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