Helen Atthowe
The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture
The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture
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The Ecological Farm is a valuable resource for ecological fruit and vegetable growers who want to go beyond organic, providing a crop-by-crop guide to growing more than 25 popular and profitable vegetables and fruits while managing the details of an entire growing system over the life of an enterprise.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2023
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
The Ecological Farm is a groundbreaking resource for ecological fruit and vegetable growers at all scales who aspire to go beyond organic practices. Through a unique ecosystem-balancing approach that emphasizes reduced tillage, minimizing farm and garden inputs, and pest control, you will learn how to build higher soil quality and fertility by using fewer harmful inputs. Farmer, consultant, and educator Helen Atthowe (along with her late husband, Carl Rosato) have decades of farming experience, which they share in this essential book. They guide readers on how to reduce or eliminate the use of outside inputs of fertilizer or pesticides, even those commonly used on certified organic orchards and market gardens. With clear, easy-to-action language, color photography, charts, and graphs throughout, The Ecological Farm emphasizes the importance of managing the details of an entire growing system over the full life of an enterprise.
The Ecological Farm features a crop-by-crop guide to growing more than 25 of the most popular and profitable vegetables and fruits, including specific management advice for dealing with pests and diseases. You will also learn how to:
• design a system that establishes a year-round root-in-soil system for microbial health
• strengthen the "immune system" of a farm or garden
• supply crop needs using only on-farm inputs such as cover crops and living mulch
• maximize the presence of beneficial insects and microbes
• minimize ecological impact in dealing with insect pest and disease problems
The Ecological Farm makes complex, sometimes messy, ecological concepts and practices understandable to all growers, and makes healthy farming, in which nature is invited to participate, possible.
Weight: 1050g
Dimension: 204 x 257 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781645021810
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