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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In high Mongolia, no crops or vegetables are grown so there is no need for fertilizer or biochar as a soil amendment, correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well I put that question to Professor Lodoysamba. Asked him (raised in a deep rural area of Western Mongolia, “Don’t you have some sort of fruit gathered from tees, some roots or root vegetables that are dug from the ground occasionally?”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He replied, “In Mongolia, chicken is a vegetable.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He literally ate nothing by animal products from birth until the age of seven. He mother was aged and had no milk. He was raised from Day 1 on the fatty tail tips of sheep. When went to boarding school at 7 (which all rural children
did) he said they were fed a terrible, ghastly food – the kids couldn’t eat it, it smelled so bad. I asked what it was. He replied, “They called it, ‘Pô-tâ-tô’.” This was his first experience of vegetables.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The rural population, whether in the southern Gobi Desert or the mountains, is populated by nomadic people who have clan-based access to summer and winter grazing areas. In summer they go up-mountain and towards winter they go down-slope.
The houses are completely portable and they can survive, even now, if they have at least 200 animals of 5 or 6 different kinds and a rifle. Historically they make some 150 different dairy products.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are some wheat farms, but the growing season is pretty short. Remember, the average year-round temperature is -2<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">°</span>C. Hunting and fishing are a lot more fun. Marmots are delicious
and you can get $100,000 for a frozen wolf in northern China. (Both are illegal activities.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Stay warm, stay well<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Crispin<o:p></o:p></p>
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