This Plant Rebuilds Soil Forever Without Fertilizer So Why Was It Removed From Farms скачать в хорошем качестве

This Plant Rebuilds Soil Forever Without Fertilizer So Why Was It Removed From Farms

What if there were a real plant that could rebuild soil without fertilizer, without irrigation, and without yearly planting? It’s called comfrey. Its roots reach deep into subsoil most crops never touch, pulling up minerals that modern farms now buy by the ton. Cut it down and it regrows stronger. Use its leaves and the soil improves instead of degrading. For centuries, farmers across Europe and Russia planted it along every field edge. Then, in less than fifty years, it disappeared. Not because it failed. Because it worked. At a time when fertilizer costs are rising and topsoil is vanishing, a plant like this should be everywhere. Instead, it is almost nowhere. And the reason it vanished has very little to do with farming, and everything to do with how the system is built. Every year this system continues, food gets more expensive, soils become harder to recover, and farmers lose more control over their own land. This was not a weed. It was not an ornamental herb. Comfrey was a working plant, cultivated with clear intention across the British Isles, Germany, Russia, and eventually North America. Medieval farmers called it knitbone because poultices from its leaves were believed to heal fractures. But its real power was in the soil. By the eighteenth century, comfrey appeared in agricultural manuals across Europe. Farmers planted it along field edges to stabilize banks and prevent erosion. They grew it in orchards where its dense foliage suppressed weeds and held moisture. They cultivated it around livestock paddocks because animals ate it readily and thrived.