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Microfarms—or small acreage farms—are gaining popularity across the country for their astoundingly high yields and great tasting produce, as well as their profitability. This handbook reveals the secrets of successful micro eco-farming and explains what eco-farmers need to know to start their own small agribusiness.
Questions such as What can be grown? How do farmers reach their markets? and What sustainable production methods can be used? are answered in detail and supported be hundreds of real-life examples. A variety of unusual uses for crops are also provided, including producing organic spa products, building an urban greenhouse, creating a heritage rose farm, or cultivating a connoisseur apple orchard. Ecologists, amateur gardeners, farmers, and those interested in sustainable living will enjoy this in-depth look at the spiritually and f inancially rewarding aspects of this new field.
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Gardening Techniques
Intensive Gardening
The purpose of an intensively grown garden is to harvest the most produce
possible from a given space.
Companion Planting
Companion planting, or intercropping, allows us to take advantage of
certain chemical interactions between plants.
Companion Planting Chart for Vegetables
Companion Planting Chart for Herbs
Intensive Planting
An intensive garden reduces wasted space to a minimum. The practice of
intensive planting is not just for those with limited garden space; rather,
an intensive garden concentrates work efforts to create an ideal plant
environment, giving better yields with less labor.
And Other Important Things
Air Layering for Easy Plant Propagation
Propagating plants is a great way to make many plants from one, however many
gardeners have not been very successful with rooting new plants from cuttings.
Well there is a better way. Air layering is easy, and the success rate is much
higher....
Raised Bed How To'sPlants in raised beds get more sun and air circulation and they can make better use of water. You often can plant earlier and harvest later, because raised beds warm up early in the spring and stay warm later in the fall.
Integrated Pest ManagementTwentyfive years ago, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) seemed a utopian dream to mainstream agriculturalists. The idea that plant pests could be kept at acceptable levels without large amounts of chemical pesticides ran counter to everything they had been taught. But now IPM is embraced by nearly everyone involved in the field. What has caused this turn around?
Introduction to Soil FertilitySoil fertility is concerned with the inherent capacity of soil to provide nutrients in adequate amounts and in proper balance for the growth of specified plants when other growth factors such as light moisture and temperature and the physical condition of the soil are favorable.
Permaculture
Permaculture is a conscious design and maintenance of systems
which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of a natural
eco-system. It is a harmonious integration of the land with people
- providing food, energy, shelter, and material and non-material
needs in a sustainable way.
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