As more farmers recognize the benefits of no-till farming for soil health, water retention, and crop productivity, expert Daniel Mays provides an in-depth how-to manual on getting started with no-till techniques for successful vegetable production on a commercial scale.
This is the only manual of its kind, specifically written for natural and small-scale farmers who wish to expand or explore chemical-free, regenerative farming methods.
According to a 2012 Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) report from Turner Farm in Ohio, excess wool from their flock worked well as a garden mulch, and they saw substantial increases in yields in tomatoes, peppers, ...
Price: US/Can $59.99 BY LAURA LENGNICK ISBN: 9780865719507 Format: Paperback - 368 pages Resilient Agriculture, Second Edition Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate Size: 7.5 x 9” (wxh) Price: US/Can $34.99 Building Your ...
William Woys Weaver (a contributing editor to Mother Earth News, winner of three cookbook awards and owner of the Roughwood Seed Collection) recommends it for frozen desserts. “Icebox” varieties are six-inch (15-cm) round, ...
Based on the latest research by pioneering agriculturists, this book offers new technologies and tools based on sound biological principles, making it possible to reduce and even eliminate tillage.
In this field-guide companion to his award-winning first book, The Lean Farm, Hartman shows market vegetable growers in even more detail how Clay Bottom Farm implements lean thinking in every area of their work, including using kanbans, or ...
This second volume in the series walks new and experienced gardeners through turning a good garden into a great garden using no-till techniques. Learn to create a vegetable plot from scratch without heavy machinery.
If the area to be raked is large, we may use rod weeders mounted on the fast hitch on a tractor to gather the material into piles for quicker removal via carts to the field edge. Usually it is easy enough at planting time to simply ...
While the intended audience for this book is small-scale farmers who are part of the growing local food movement, Hartman's prescriptions for high-value, low-cost production apply to farms and businesses of almost any size or scale that ...
This book also shows you how to make natural pesticides that can replace chemical ones. He started organic farming and raised animals himself from 1991 in Asan, Chungnam province.