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Control --- no-tillage --- Weeds --- Congresses --- Alberta
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No-tillage --- Conservation tillage --- Soil management --- Tillage
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"No-till farming is the new best practice for preventing soil erosion, building soil biology, and providing growing conditions for vibrant, healthy crops. But for organic vegetable farmers and gardeners-and any farmer who wants to avoid herbicide use-the seemingly insurmountable dilemma with no-till has been how to control weeds without cultivating. In this thorough, practical guide, expert organic famer Bryan O'Hara provide the answers. O'Hara systemically describes the growing methods he developed and perfected during a multi-year transition of his Connecticut certified organic vegetable farm to a no-till system. O'Hara asserts that this flexible, nature-friendly agricultural methodology is critical to vegetable farming success both economically as well as to maintain the health of the soil and the farm ecosystem. His methodology has proven itself over years of cropping on his home farm, Tobacco Road Farm, as well as other farms in his region, often with stunning results in yields, quality, and profitability. In No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture, O'Hara delves into the techniques he has experimented with and perfected in his 25 years of farming, including making and using compost, culturing and applying indigenous microorganisms to support soil biology, reduced tillage systems, no-till bed preparation techniques, seeding and transplanting methods, irrigation, use of fertilizers (including foliar feeds), pest and disease management, weed control, season extension, and harvest and storage techniques. O'Hara also explores the spiritual understanding of the nuances of the soil and a farm ecosystem and how that influences practical production decisions such as when to plant, water, and fertilize a crop. O'Hara goal is to pass on his knowledge to those who feel the impulse to make their livelihood in harmony with nature, requiring a relatively small land base of a few acres or less and little capital investment in mechanization. Home gardener and large-scale farmers will also find value in his methods. This manual will provides farmers with an advanced agricultural methodology not available in any other single book on organic vegetable production, a methodology that will allow farmers to continue to adapt to meet future challenges"--
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Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.” Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Whether you’re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here—you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.
Basic Sciences. Agriculture --- No-tillage --- No-tillage. --- Organic farming --- Organic farming. --- Alternative Farming --- Organic Farming.
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631.58 --- No-tillage --- #ABIB:irri --- Zero tillage --- Conservation tillage --- Tillage --- Particular cultivation systems --- No-tillage. --- Basic Sciences. Agriculture --- Agriculture (General) --- Agriculture (General). --- 631.58 Particular cultivation systems
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Herbicides. --- No-tillage. --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Weed Science --- Weeds --- Weed Control. --- Control.
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Soil management --- Soils --- Soil conservation --- Cover crops --- No-tillage. --- Economic aspects --- Quality
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No-tillage --- Soil conservation --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Tillage --- Equipment and supplies.
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Crops and soils --- Crops --- Soil conservation. --- Soils --- No-tillage. --- Forage plants --- Management. --- Ecology. --- Quality. --- Soils.
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Soil management --- Tillage --- Sols --- Aménagement --- Préparation --- Cultivation of soils --- Soil cultivation --- Soil tillage --- Tilling --- Soils --- Management --- Agricultural systems --- Agriculture --- No-tillage --- Soil science --- Agronomy
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