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Includes: • Farm-Generated Fertility - how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available. • The Moveable Feast - how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up. • The Winter Garden - how to plant, harvest, and sell hardy salad crops all winter long from unheated or minimally heated greenhouses. • Pests? - how to find "plant-positive" rather than "pest-negative" solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants. • The Information Resource - how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live. I strongly believe in the values and rewards of the small farm. I wish to encourage them. And so this book is written for those with a small-farm dream. But it also has a wealth of ideas to offer the serious home gardener. The efficient professional techniques described here are basically scale-neutral and can be used to make everyone's vegetable-growing efforts more productive and enjoyable. And who knows? The best gardeners often move up to become small farmers. Organic growing is not complicated. Nor is it difficult. It is the most straightforward way of raising plants. Difficulties usually arise from a misunderstanding of how it works. Once the principles are clear, gardeners from backyard to back forty can tune onto the existing balances of the natural system and grow the crops they have always dreamed of. —From the Preface
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