1993-01-01 This book presents a five-year plan for turning a plain, unadorned lawn into a full-scale food production system that supplies many of the yearly food needs for a family of four.
1995-01-01 For the first-time gardener, or for those simply dissatisfied with what they see in their back yard, this practical guide offers solutions to the basic questions gardeners ask. Introductionary sections lay the groundwork for change; the major part of the book is based around 40 step-by-step...
2003-01-01 This book discusses conservation and cooperation, dehydration, extraction of herbal material, dehydration apparatus, the home based herbal business, skin care lotions and medicinal balms, and extraction apparatus of herbs in Africa.
1975-01-01 In this compact volume the author presents a concise look on growing fresh vegetables to meet the needs of the family with a surplus to share or sell - is the outgrowth of many years of research and experimentation im more than two score countries around the world under most unusual and varied...
1974-01-01 The Calendar of Organic Gardening means to tell you how to garden day-by-day in seven different climate zones that stretch the length and breath of our land, north to south and east to west-roughly 1500 by 3000 miles.
1992-01-01 A Manual for Using Sustainable-Organic Food Production Effectively in Christian Mission The major portion of this book is devoted to helping train mission workers in the important "hand" of sustainable-organic food production. The authors have attempted to include the most practical and effective...
For agriculture to be sustainable, land and water must be used efficiently to reduce negative impact on the environment and ensure resilience to climate change. We can’t achieve global food security without preserving the services that ecosystems such as trees and forests provide, and we can’t...
Combined with one another, and adapted and scaled-up across the African continent, these two systems, conservation agriculture with trees, and maize agroforestry, just migh ave the potential to foster an 'evergreen agriculture' that could benefit millions more farmers.
This book was written to inform both the farming community and the environmentalist, ecologist, politicians, opinion-formers and the general public of the benefits of zero tillage, which establishes a strong link between the concerns of soil conservation and obligations to the envirnment.