Organic farming means soil. From the beginning, organic farming has been driven by an ethic of soil-building: The farmer feeds the soil, and the soil feeds the crop. Soil building is an investment in the future, and it takes time. Years of carefully tending the soil might not produce a measurable difference for many years. "Balanced yield" describes the relationship between the soil's long-term fertility and the crop load that the trees set in the spring. No synthetic, chemical fertilizers are used to inflate nut kernels, or to burden the...
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