100% Farming With 00% Fertilizers – In The Netherlands! They Are At Least ‘Producing Twice As Much Food Using Half As (Much) Resources’”

Here I am early Monday morning, 21 July 2025 (Manila time), newly arisen from bed, with eyes wide as I read this Facebook post of 19 July 2025: “The Netherlands Is Growing Self-Fertilizing Crops – No Chemicals Needed.” From the Unbox Factory, 13 July 2025 Facebook sharing of Lesley Evans Ogden on “The Clean Farming Revolution.” (image sources)

“No chemicals needed.” Goodbye Fertilizer Agriculture!

I had my own surprise baptism of no-chemicals agriculture when in the mid-1950s I came across Edward H Faulkner’s eye-opening book Plowman’s Folly at the open shelves of the library of the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, where I obtained my BS Agriculture major in Ag Educ. Mr Faulkner’s eye-opening message? “Plowing is wrong.”

Elsewhere, in “The Straw Thread Revolution,” Masanobu Fukuoka and Libreria Editrice Fiorentina say, “Plowing is an agricultural practice as widespread as it is harmful. In this article, we want to explain to you what are the negative effects that this technique causes on the health of the soil and on the delicate natural balances.”

I don’t want to go into the above-indicated details; I just want to emphasize the current main message of Chemical Agriculture, in my own words: “Chemicals in agriculture are all wrong!”

Says Ms Lesley:

“Dutch scientists and farmers are pioneering self-fertilizing crops that use natural root systems and soil microbes to enrich the land without synthetic chemicals. By working with underground biology, these crops boost soil health, restore biodiversity, and support sustainable farming – part of the Netherlands’ push to lead in eco-friendly agriculture.”

Chemical fertilizers? Goodbye!

The goals, according to Ms Lesley, are:

👉 Healthier soils

👉 More biodiversity

👉 Less reliance on chemicals

👉 Resilient farms that can adapt to climate change

“Resilient farms that can adapt to Climate Change.” Yes!

Dutch scientists and farmers are pioneering self-fertilizing crops that use natural root systems and soil microbes to enrich the land without applying synthetic chemicals. By working with underground biology, these crops boost soil health, restore biodiversity, and support sustainable farming – part of the Netherlands’ push to lead in eco-friendly agriculture.

Dutch scientists and farmers are teaming up to grow smarter, cleaner crops – no synthetic fertilizers required.

Through a process called rhizosphere engineering, they’re developing self-fertilizing plants that work with underground microbes to naturally absorb nutrients, fix nitrogen from the air, and enrich the soil.

Root engineering, whereby underground microbes naturally absorb nutrients, fix nitrogen from the air, and enrich the soil.

(The difference lies only in that my own “FAH root engineering” mechanically assists the crop in growing.)

The goals?

👉 Healthier soils

👉 More biodiversity

👉 Less reliance on chemicals

👉 Resilient farms that can adapt to Climate Change.

Jesse Rintoul says in “Farming For The Future: Why The Netherlands Is One Of The Largest Food Exporters In The World” (dutchreview.com):

“The Dutch made an oath that goes a little like this: ‘Producing twice as much food using half as (much) resources’.”

Dutch treat!@517