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Key Resource 01-01-2009 Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life-not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy...
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Session: With increasing threat of climate crisis, soil loss, and continued economic challenges to farmers, building extremely robust and healthy soils provides the whole systems approach that is affordable and immediately available to all farmers. At its premise it is biologically based using...
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01-01-1998 This report presents the findings of a DFID-funded research project to investigate the state of, and prospects for, organic agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the project were as follows: In a variety of cllimatic zones within sub-Saharan Africa, determine the type and degree of...
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01-01-1994 From his own farming experience in Weeping Water, Nebraska, Jim Bender addresses in Future Harvest the crucial issues involved in developing a viable commercial pesticide-free farm with emphasis upon soil and water conservation. He examines the context of contemporary alternative agriculture,...
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01-01-1991 Successful Small-Scale Farming introduces anyone owning (or planning to own) a small farm to both the harsh realities and the real potential involved in making a full-or part-time living on the land. Karl Schwenke's clear-eyed approach to the best farming methods covers a wide range of proven...
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01-01-2010 This University of California, Santa Cruz, notebook contains many resources for instructors on organic farming and gardening. multiple numbered sections, illustrations
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01-01-1992 This booklet contains cost-benfit researchon Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) explaining the concept of organic agriculture systems. 208 pages, photos
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01-01-2015 Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on: Lessons from systems science (including tools) Assessing the whole farm (what are we managing? the people, physical and mental assets, money) Understanding the farm ecosystems (the water and mineral cycles, dynamics of the biological community,...
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01-01-2001 This booklet looks at growing legumes the organic way. 39 pages, illustrated
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The purpose of this book is to provide a simple synthesis of the research on novel agroecosystems and technologies and an analysis of ecologically based farms, for the purpose of establishing the scientific basis of alternative agriculture. This book is an urgent call to all students of...