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Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques
Growing Animal-Free Organic Techniques is an essential guide about organic growing and is perfect for absolute beginners as well as experienced professionals. This book introduces the concept of stockfree-organic and shows, through case studies, that when growers abandon the use of slaughterhouse by-products and manures they can be rewarded with healthier crops, less weeds, pests and diseases.
In an age where dreams of self-sufficiency seem unattainable, Growing Green shows that making a living from growing organic vegetables can be achieved by anyone who is willing to rent land. Until now there have been no comprehensive guidelines on how to follow the organic standards at the different scales of vegetable production using tractors, small machinery and hand tools.
This practical and easy-to-follow guide
In an age where dreams of self-sufficiency seem unattainable, Growing Green shows that making a living from growing organic vegetables can be achieved by anyone who is willing to rent land. Until now there have been no comprehensive guidelines on how to follow the organic standards at the different scales of vegetable production using tractors, small machinery and hand tools.
This practical and easy-to-follow guide
- GenresAgricultureGardening
328 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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November 5, 2021
This book is a technical manual aimed at the small-scale commercial grower doing market garden and field-scale crops.
It's not obvious from the cover, but the book really focuses on Stock-Free Organic growing (my copy does not include the 'Animal-Free Organic Techniques' subtitle). That means no animal inputs to the farm such as manure. It uses the Stock-Free Organic standards as a structure throughout the book and expands on each point with advice from growers.
I do not plan to follow a Stock-Free approach in my own growing, but this book was particularly interesting for its focus on low-input farming by building fertility on the holding itself using green manures, compost, woodchip, and other techniques. It's been a good source of green manuring information in particular, including advice for specific crops.
The book is well referenced and you'll find the relevant papers and books at the end of each chapter.
It's not obvious from the cover, but the book really focuses on Stock-Free Organic growing (my copy does not include the 'Animal-Free Organic Techniques' subtitle). That means no animal inputs to the farm such as manure. It uses the Stock-Free Organic standards as a structure throughout the book and expands on each point with advice from growers.
I do not plan to follow a Stock-Free approach in my own growing, but this book was particularly interesting for its focus on low-input farming by building fertility on the holding itself using green manures, compost, woodchip, and other techniques. It's been a good source of green manuring information in particular, including advice for specific crops.
The book is well referenced and you'll find the relevant papers and books at the end of each chapter.
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