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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adey Baker" data-source="post: 1414567" data-attributes="member: 1805">How many people (young and fit, as the programme pointed out!) would it take to maintain such a system on a scale large enough to replace conventional farming, though? There were lots of ideas in the programme that will no doubt be explored more fully as we search for ways to reduce our reliance on oil.'No-dig' gardening has been practiced by some people for many years so the idea of not ploughing isn't entirely new. It does require placing a layer of humus on the soil, though, for the various organisms to work on and, as any organic gardener will tell you, obtaining enough compost from one's own plot for the whole of that plot is very difficult and usually leads to obtaining manure, etc., from elsewhere which goes against the ideas mooted in the programme.</blockquote>