Michael Ableman conducts a tour of Fairview Gardens Farm in Goleta, California, explaining how he raises abundant organic vegetables and fruits for urban customers. He demonstrates that commercial farming can be profitable without the use of soil-degrading chemicals through the use of technologies from farms around the world. The Chinese, for example, use night soil and intensive cultivation to continue using ancient but still productive fields.|CELEBRATING EARTH'S ABUNDANCE / Michael Ableman| interviewed and produced by Barbara Dunlap. - SERIES: New signals - Michael Ableman conducts a tour of Fairview Gardens Farm in Goleta, California, explaining how he raises abundant organic vegetables and fruits for urban customers. He demonstrates that commercial farming can be profitable without the use of soil-degrading chemicals through the use of technologies from farms around the world. The Chinese, for example, use night soil and intensive cultivation to continue using ancient but still productive fields. - RECORDED: 20 Apr. 1993.
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