Practical No-Till Farming (eBook)

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing

Andrew Mefferd (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
240 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-55092-760-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Do less, produce more, and grow soil that feeds crops using chemical-free, organic no-till methodsAndrew Mefferd, veteran farmer, author of The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution, and editor of Growing for Market magazine, brings you the ultimate guide to getting started with no-till farming.Yet there are many ways to do no-till, including mulching with compost, cardboard, straw, silage tarps, and more. Plus plenty of conflicting advice on how to get started.Practical No-Till Farming is here to help, sorting the wheat from the chaff and the horse manure from the plastic mulch. Coverage includes:How to assess your farm for no-till options considering climate, soil, and crop selectionAssessment of common no-till methods, including pros and cons, materials, and the relative costsA decision-making matrix for choosing the most appropriate methods for your contextHow-to for each no-till method, including what to do and whenDealing with bindweed, symphylans, and other difficult weeds and pestsMaximizing productivity of no-till bedsSpecial coverage of both organic vegetable and flower no-till market farmingIdeal for small-scale growers everywhere, Andrew Mefferd, veteran farmer, author of The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution, and editor of Growing for Market magazine, brings you the ultimate guide to getting started with no-till farming.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: a maximum of 100 color maps, charts, photographs and graphics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: advantages • Agriculture • Agroecology • Biology • business • Business planning • carbon • Carbon Sequestration • Charles Dowding • chemical-free • compost • Cover • Cover crops • Crop • cropping • Daniel Mays • Ecological • ecological agroecology • Farmer • farming • Flowers • food security • gardener • Gardening • grow own • Health • How • jean martin fortier • jess frost • land stewardship • Living • Management • Market • market gardening • Method • microbes • Mulch • no-dig • No dig,Charles Dowding • No-till nutrient-dense • Off-grid • organic • Organic Farming • permaculture • plant nutrient-dense health • Podcast • Practices • Prepper • Productive • Productivity • regenerative • Resilience • Row • Sequestration • Small-Scale • SOI • Soil Nutrition • Sustainable • technique • techniques • tillage • Vegetable mulch • vegetables • Weed • yield
• ISBN-10: 1-55092-760-4 / 1550927604
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55092-760-3 / 9781550927603