Habitat Contamination - Warning: Rambling Ahead!

A lot to think about;

heres one small part.

Pests and weeds are part of a natural process. My understanding is that
weeds are Natures way of converting soils unsuited for other plants TO soils
suited for other plants. Unfortunately on the human time scale it takes too
long for us to see the benefits.

So, by enriching the soils through human intervention, mineralizing them
appropriately to the needs of the specific plants that ARE desired, it
defacto makes it un palatable for weeds to grow. It's just simply
not an attractive medium for their growth. This allows "super" production
of the desired plants and very little if any weeds to worry about.

Pests are natures way of destroying and breaking down unhealthy plants.
Along with bacteria, they allow natural selection to take place. If the
plant is healthy, then pests don't attack it. (Think of sharks in the ocean
or any other preditor... they don't go after the strong, they seek out the
weak, same prinicpal).

So then the simple solution is to properly feed plants what they need, so
they are strong. This however does not mean the wholesale fertilizer route.

A simple technique for zeroing in on plants health is by checking the
solids in the sap (somewhat akin to a blood test :-) . A refractor or brix
reader helps in this. Make adjustment, check results, make adjustment check
again, till you get the high brix you want. Very scientific no mumbo jumbo,
whichdoctors waving bones, divining rods, etc. :-) Commonly used by wine
growers to get best high dollar product.

When a plant reaches a brix of around 16-20, pests rarely if ever attack.
Most commercially grown plants have brix in 4-12 range at best.

Some of the other beannies of high brix is that the fruit or vegetable has a
higher "sugar" content as well, and much more nutrients. This translates
into better tasting food for most peoples palate. Also the water is held
better in the plant cell rather than between cells. This seems to extend the
shelf life of a harvested product from days to weeks, since it it appears
that its the free
water that somehow promotes rotting.

So if the production is strong, and the soil balance not conducive to the
propagation needs of weeds, then it doesnt matter if spores or aphids or
whatever piggy back onto the independent environment... since they won't
find the proper medium to grow well and multiply.

problem abated.

regarding if humans would be able to use the same technique, (staying strong
and therefor not allowing an opening for disease to enter) needs to be
studied a bit more.

It would be reasonable to assume that indigenous people living in the new
world and hawaii were indeed healthy; investigations of niche populations by
Dr.Price alluded to same from dental examinations. Yet it appears that
disease ridden Europeans invading these isolated lands almost wiped out
native populations through syphylis, and others nasties.

A strong constitution is great but perhaps not enough for some of the more
pathogenic bugs.