Practical No-Till Farming (eBook)

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing

Andrew Mefferd (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
240 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-77142-356-4 (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.ACCESSIBILITY NOTESThis publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative texts for images, table of contents, landmarks, reading order, page list, Structural Navigation, and semantic structure. Blank pages have been removed from this EPUB.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: a maximum of 100 color maps, charts, photographs and graphics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• 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: 1-77142-356-0 / 1771423560
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77142-356-4 / 9781771423564