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Early Scottish Farmers Didn't Use Manure to Fertilize Their Fields
Heritage Daily ^ | September 2022 | Antiquity

Posted on 09/19/2022 5:50:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

You’re not wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bere_%28grain%29

But I couldn’t possibly add anything to Twatt.


21 posted on 09/21/2022 1:27:28 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The canny and thrifty Scots used materials that were cheap and plentiful in the land to fertilize their crops. Rocks.

Archeologists have found fields literally filled with rocks and made the obvious deductions.


22 posted on 09/24/2022 11:41:12 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
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