everything into account. One example is potatoes, which
are a “light feeder” crop according to the denitions
involved, yet they, along with tomatoes, are in reality
among the heaviest “heavy feeders.”
Eventually, we began to research rotations and
discovered that many rotation programs exist. However,
it was difficult to find a repeating pattern in almost all of
them. In addition, it has been observed that biologically
intensive food raising, because of the diversity of crops it
uses, produces genetically diverse compost piles. The use
of the cured compost from these piles throughout the
growing area, in turn, is itself a kind of “rotation.” As a
result of this and a lot of experience, we have developed
the following simpler rotation guidelines:
Agricultural recycling: To preserve the soil’s nutrients, plant heavy feeders,
then heavy givers, then light feeders.- For main-season crops, with few exceptions, we try not
to grow the same crop, or a member of the same