Hari Haralampiev

Hello Art,

Great to have you on the forum. I am facinated by your work and wanted to get my hands of your books for a long time. However I live in Bulgaria and books like this will probably arrive in the bookstores here arround it's 20th eddition... Shipping costs from abroad increase book value significantly and in general I avoid paper books for number of reasons. Do you have plans to issue an e-book version of your books? That would make them much more accessible to the readers outside US. Thanks for your consideration and keep the great work!

BR
Hari

Thank you Darren,

Excellent point - we should always remember that observation comes first, which I tend to forget in my enthusiasm. Also i like what you say that we should start with low cost solutions and when our concept is ready to do the design and involve more radical actions that will hopefully have much bigger and positive impact. Can I ask you to elaborate a little bit more on the first steps. What we should start with first and what would be the logical and working (from your experience) sequence of adding the additional elements. Probably in each case different things will make sense to start with as each situaiton is different for example the aproach on a field that was used for conventional agriculture and unmannaged pasture that is all in bushes and small trees will be different, I would exepct that on the first plot you will need first covercorps and compost tea for example and in the second scenario I would think that introducing animals and moving them through the land to clean some of the vegetation for you would make more sense. But can you give in some more detial your view on the subject - what are the most cost effective methods to start with, and maybe some examples from your practice? Thanks!

Hari

Hello Darren,

Thanks for taking the time to answer our quesitons. Can you please comment on the importance of doing the keyline plowing gradually, increasing the dept as the plants root system grows. Wouldn't it be the same if you do one deeper plowing every, let's say, 4 years, instead of repeating it year after year and increase the dept gradually?

Thanks, Hari.

Suzy Jacob wrote:still for sale

Hello Suzy,

Where is this in Bulgaria exactly?