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The popularity of organic gardening continues to rise as people seek to control the quality and freshness of the food they eat. And organic gardening isn?t just about creating delicious healthy food for the table: it?s also about supporting delicate ecosystems and working without the use of chemicals. This comprehensive handbook of organic gardening techniques is full of practical information on sowing and growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other plants. From selecting the right tools to propagation, crop rotation, growing on supports, training greenhouse crops, watering, weed control?all of the essentials are here. Protecting crops from pests and diseases is dealt with comprehensively, along with extensive advice on storing and preserving your produce after the harvest. Packed full of information, with useful tips throughout, Organic Gardening Techniques is a thorough reference guide for every organic gardener. Inside Organic Gardening Techniques Comprehensive guide to gardening the organic way, from preparing the soil to caring for your crops. Easy-to-use format, with information on getting started, sowing from seed, propagating, watering, crop protection, and much more. Essential gardening techniques are explained and illustrated with clear diagrams, helping you get the most from your productive garden. Includes practical projects that anyone who is able to wield a hammer and saw can easily construct, from building a compost bin and potting bench to making cloches and cold frames.

The Nordic Tractor traces the history of tractor production in Sweden and Finland. The story goes back over 200 years to the 19th century when the industrial revolution was sweeping across Britain, and Sweden wanted to establish their own manufacturing powerhouses. This was an exciting and fast moving time for engineering and this book traces the ups, downs and eventual demise of some of the first manufacturers working to serve the particular needs of the agricultural and forestry industries in this densely forested and mountainous region. It then looks in depth at the companies who emerged from this, who learnt from their own and others mistakes and built on the widespread technological advances of the time to build up names for themselves in Northern parts of Europe. Today, Valtra - now owned by AGCO - stands proudly as the last remaining agricultural tractor maker in Scandinavia, but The Nordic Tractor shows where their roots lie in the establishment and history of companies such as Bolinder, Munktells, Volvo and Valmet, who all stood out as being major players in the Nordic region. Including over 100 photos, many of which have been previously unpublished, this book will appeal to those with a specific interest in Nordic tractors, Nordic engineering and general Nordic history as well as the general tractor enthusiast.

1960 saw the dawn of an era of unprecedented innovation and development in farm machinery. It was a period of rapid technical advancement, that produced machines which are the mainstay of the current very buoyant vintage tractor restoration movement. At the start of the decade, spark-ignition Standard Fordson tractors still occasionally required repair; by the end of the decade, the Fordson Diesel Major had been replaced by the Ford 1000 series. The history of these iconic brands is well-known; Oily Hands and the Smell of Diesel gives an alternative view - the inside story of the agricultural machinery repair trade. First employed as an apprentice, then moving his way up to an engineer, David Harris gives an entertaining, informative and personal account of his time spent at a Ford main tractor dealership, working on Ford, Fordson, County, Roadless and Muirhill tractors, Chaseside loaders, Claas combines and New Holland and Jones balers amongst others. Including many historical photographs, David describes the technical challenges in detail, and tells of the ups and downs of life in the workshop and out in the field. This book will be a must-read for anyone who is or was involved in the machinery industry; anyone looking to restore or repair vintage agricultural machinery and anyone with a general interest in farming and machinery history.

Hobby farming is alive and thriving in semi-rural, suburban, and rural areas across the country, and female farmers have been cited as the fastest growing sector within the farming community in recent years. With more than 1 million women in the United States and Canada describing farming as their primary source of income, and many more for whom hobby farming is just thata hobbythe time is right for a publication dedicated to hobby farming from a female perspective. Written for women, by a woman, this insightful volume is packed with stories and advice from women hobby farmers and looks at female-specific farming challenges as well as issues that all farmers face. Inside The Woman Hobby Farmer: Discussions on the who, what, why, and where of hobby farming Deciding on your farming goals and making a plan What to expect in your new endeavor How to decide what to plant and prepare your planting sites Advice on feeding, caring for, and housing different types of livestock A look at "agripreneurship"running and marketing your hobby farm as a successful business Stories, quotes, and advice from successful female hobby farmers

Getting started on growing your own fruit can seem daunting as appealing as the thought may be - and many people are put off by a lack of knowledge and time. This no-nonsense book sets out to overcome these problems. With clear practical instructions and inspirational pictures, Clare Matthews demystifies the growing of fruit and shows that with the right approach, it can be done successfully on weekends or slotted into a busy week. The book is packed with practical advice and shortcuts, from planning what to grow and companion planting to dealing with pests and diseases and no-dig gardening. Soft fruit, tree fruit, nuts and other fruit are all covered. The author explains simple short cuts, suggests unusual low maintenance strategies, and promotes a relaxed, robust attitude to growing-your-own that really works. The beautiful photographs are by the acclaimed garden photographer Clive Nichols in Clare Matthews own weekend fruit garden, where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested and proven. Filled with sound horticultural advice, the book is essential reading for time-poor gardeners who want to achieve maximum yields from their fruit gardens with minimum effort.

What could be more satisfying than growing your own fruit and vegetables and then eating them, freshly picked? Theres no need to have lots of land: it can be done anywherein windowsill containers, balconies, and small backyards. This combination growing guide and cookbook explains how anyone, anywhere can go straight from pot to pan. It offers: - A how-to of cultivation: tools and materials, containers, and siting - An illustrated AZ vegetable, herb and fruit directory, with each entry listing planting, siting, maintenance and harvesting details, plus storing and freezing instructions - A cookbook chapter, with 25 fresh, simple recipes for appetizers, entrees, and desserts This is the perfect book for a holistic, healthy lifestyle!

The Doe Triple D became a legend in its own lifetime. It was one of the most unorthodox tractors ever built and had two engines, four wheel drive and could articulate through nearly 90 degrees. A very successful machine in its own time, it has remained a firm favourite among tractor enthusiasts everywhere. This illustrated account tells the full story of this remarkable tractor and the company that built it. The rise of Essex company Ernest Doe & Sons from a village blacksmiths shop to the largest machinery retail organization in East Anglia is traced in detail with full coverage given to the machines it made.

Six containers of heirloom tomatoes, miniature squashes, and herbs on your back patio or six acres of beets, cabbages, and strawberries? Five chickens and a honey bee hive or a small farm with three dozen sheep and a couple of quarter horses?Regardless of the size of your "field of dreams," Essential Guide to Hobby Farming is your best first step to making that hobby-farm aspiration a pleasurable and profitable reality. A hobby farmer for the past thirty years, Carol Ekarius shares the joys, challenges, and rewards of living the rural life. Hobby farming is as much a state of mind as it is an address in the country, and this instructive, beautifully photographed manual addresses every topic beginning hobby farmers need to know, from purchasing the right land and equipment to choosing and maintaining crops and livestock to marketing and selling your hobby farms yield.TOPICS DISCUSSED INSIDE:-Assessing finances and resourcesland, water, tools of the trade (trucks, tractors, various implements)-Choosing the best crops for your land, climate, hardiness, and profitability-Selecting and caring for the livestockchickens, goats, cows, sheep, etc.that best fits your hobby farm-Protecting crops and livestock against predators, pests, and disease-Business and marketing options for selling your "local food" directly to restaurants and farmers markets and through CSA programs-Preserving the harvest, through canning, drying, and freezing, plus over two dozen original recipes for your homegrown produceNEW FOR THE SECOND EDITION:Expanded section on chickens, including urban and suburban accommodations; honey bee keeping; adding a barn or annex building to the farm; trends in planting, including miniature vegetables, heirloom varieties, and "hot" new vegetables and hybrids; adding flower beds to the property; getting involved with a CSA

Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, third edition, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Each situation is presented with a variation, for a total of 46 designs. In addition, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs. Plants that are proven performers in the Midwest are used in the designs and described in full detail. Step-by-step instructions provide the essential knowledge to tackle each project.United States: IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, WICanada: Ontario (southern)

Southeast Home Landscaping, third edition, is a larger-format edition of Creative Homeowners award-winning best seller on landscaping southeast-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 54 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 450 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The southeast will be in full bloom with Southeast Home Landscaping, third edition.States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN

Inspirándose en la restauración de su propio jardín, Olivia Laing se embarca en una estimulante investigación del paraíso. En 2020, comenzó a restaurar un jardín amurallado del siglo XVIII en Suffolk, un eden cubierto de plantas insolitas. Este ensayo saca a la luz una cuestion crucial para nuestra epoca: ¿quien puede vivir en el paraiso y como podemos compartirlo mientras aun estemos a tiempo? Moviendose entre jardines reales e imaginarios, desde El paraiso perdido de Milton hasta las elegias sobre los cercamientos de John Clare, desde un santuario en tiempos de guerra en Italia hasta un grotesco campo de recreo aristocratico financiado por la esclavitud, Laing cuestiona el coste, en ocasiones escandaloso, de construir el paraiso en la tierra. Pero la historia del jardin no siempre representa modelos de privilegio y exclusion. Tambien es escenario de avanzadillas rebeldes y sueños comunitarios. Desde la utopia queer conjurada por Derek Jarman en la playa de Dungeness hasta la fertil vision de un Eden comun soñada por William Morris, entre los parterres de flores se han intentado nuevos modos de vida, experimentos que podrian resultar vitales en la proxima era del cambio climatico. El resultado es un relato bello y exigente de los abundantes placeres y posibilidades de los jardines: no como un lugar donde esconderse del mundo, sino como un sitio de encuentro y descubrimiento.

Un libro práctico sobre huertos, que permite saber qué cuidados darle a lo que plantamos, asumiendo que todos podemos tener y cuidar una huerta, en todo tipo de espacios.Almácigos, tierra y cultivos se reunen en este libro a todo color, que organiza el trabajo en el huerto de manera temporal, bajo la premisa de las estaciones del año. Que plantar, como y a que distancia; como controlar plagas y de que forma combinar cultivos; cuales son los momentos del año mas propicios para cada plantacion conforman el contenido de Los tiempos del huerto, a cargo de Ana Maria Vega, quien lleva mas de 10 años cultivando la tierra. Mencion especial para su gallina Constanza, compañera de trabajo y quien, a modo de personaje, entrega tips para mejorar el trabajo de la tierra.

"La demanda de recursos hídricos es cada vez mayor a escala local y mundial. A las competencias entre los tradicionales usos agrícolas y los crecientes usos urbanos e industriales se suma el deterioro creciente del medio ambiente. Una gestion adecuada de los recursos hidricos puede ayudar a paliar esta situacion y es necesaria para un desarrollo sostenible.Una de las medidas para conseguir una gestion adecuada de los recursos hidricos en la agricultura es la automatizacion y el telecontrol de los sistemas de riego. Se trata de registrar y repartir de un modo adecuado las cantidades de agua y fertilizantes que se manejan en riego utilizando diversas herramientas tecnologicas proporcionadas por la electronica digital. La automatizacion y el telecontrol facilitan la gestion en el uso del agua de riego y la facturacion por el volumen de agua consumido. En las redes de agua a presion de zonas regables, la automatizacion y el telecontrol representan un porcentaje elevado de las inversiones que se realizan. Por otra parte, existe una amplia oferta en el mercado que propone sistemas de telecontrol muy diferentes.En definitiva, la automatizacion y el telecontrol de los sistemas de riego contribuyen de manera decisiva a la sostenibilidad de los recursos hidricos en un entorno donde las carencias y baja calidad del agua son cada dia mas crecientes.Este libro ofrece una vision generica de las posibles aplicaciones de los sistemas de automatizacion y control en la gestion y manejo de regadios e instalaciones de riego. A su vez se proporcionan los conocimientos basicos necesarios para que el lector pueda diseñar sistemas de adquisicion de datos, supervision y control (SCADA) y hacer uso del telecontrol para automatizar las instalaciones de riego. Tomando como origen los fundamentos teoricos, esta obra da un enfoque practico de los temas tratados. Al mismo tiempo se presenta al lector una bibliografia actualizada para poder ampliar conocimientos.Esta edicion viene avalada por un equipo de profesores de diferentes universidades españolas (Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) con lineas de investigacion relacionadas con la tematica del libro. Esta obra, con un enfoque multidisciplinar, va dirigida a los tecnicos que trabajan en los diferentes campos del conocimiento que se presentan en cada capitulo. Los tecnicos relacionados con el manejo y mantenimiento de las instalaciones de riego a presion, a quienes se hace referencia en los capitulos del 1 al 8. En segundo lugar, los tecnicos en sistemas de automatizacion y control, reflejado en los capitulos del 9 al 19. Por ultimo, se desarrollan entre los capitulos 20 al 22 los aspectos relacionados con las telecomunicaciones empleadas en estos sistemas. Por su contenido, esta obra es una buena herramienta de consulta para diferentes grados de estudios: formacion profesional, diplomatura, licenciatura y tercer ciclo."

En ese contexto el tema agrario, las perspectivas del género, la dinámica de los movimientos sociales y los desafíos de una integración regional alternativa son, junto a las consideraciones sobre el islam politico y las siempre complejas relaciones entre Europa y el mundo arabe, algunas de las cuestiones en las que se profundiza en esta coleccion de ensayos.

Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten chose to write The Uncomfortable Truth about South Africas Agriculture in a candid, direct and unfiltered tone, not out of disregard, but with the hope of stirring South African agricultural stakeholders from inertia that may have taken hold over time.One clear example of inertia is the endless policy discussions. When the government proposes policy positions either good or bad time is spent discussing these policies instead of anything substantive being done. The divisions amongst South African farmer organisations is the core issue behind the interminable conversations and this results in a performance of productivity among participants in these meetings, creating an impression of progress simply because discussions are taking place.While politicians and farmer representatives debate, farmers suffer, the unemployed languish, and small towns crumble. Poor roads and rising costs choke market access, while collapsing municipalities pile pressure on agribusinesses.Things dont have to be this way, and the South African agricultural sector still has great potential to grow, increase employment, and revitalise the rural economy. This book will empower the reader with a clearer understanding of the agricultural constraints and how to overcome them and mobilise the much-needed sectorial focus to implementation.While the contents may be uncomfortable for some, this book is intended to ignite an urgent call for decisive policy and programme implementation and to demand stronger collaboration among social partners.

O leite compõe um dos mais importantes commodities do agronegócio mundial, sendo que o Brasil ocupa a sexta posição no ranking de produção, segundo os dados da Organização das Nações Unidas para Agri

An elegant new edition of a classic book from one of the twentieth centurys greatest garden writers.This landmark work on creating a garden was first published in 1956 and has rarely been out of print since. We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, one of the leading British gardeners of the mid-20th century, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of wilderness into a stunning cottage garden, still open to the public at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset, England. Quirky and readable, this book details her creation of a world-renowned cottage garden, as well as her battles with Walter in the process, who preferred the standard suburban approach.In this beautiful and timeless work, she recounts the trials and tribulations, the successes and failures of her venture with ease and humour. Topics covered are colourful and diverse, ranging from the most suitable hyssop for the terraced garden through composting, hedges and making paths to the best time to lift and replant tulip bulbs. This book has been hailed as everything from a blueprint for the creation of a modern cottage garden to a feminist manifesto, and the authors practical knowledge, imaginative ideas and general good sense will encourage and inspire gardeners everywhere.

Esta obra, meticulosamente estruturada em três partes por acadêmicos conceituados, oferece uma compreensão abrangente do setor que alimenta o mundo. Desde a análise do panorama atual do agronegócio s

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF COWSElegiac, funny, warm and wise, The Wisdom of Sheep will delight country folk and city dwellers alike. KATHERINE MAYA wonderful antidote to the hectic pace of modern life. JAMES OSWALDWe talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave in the same way. That has not been my experience.Some are affectionate, others prone to head-butting. Some are determinedly self-sufficient, others seek our help when they need it. And some can be trusted to lead the flock home. They are as individual as we are.Farm animals are familiar to us from childhood stories, but little did we know that their inner lives are full of complexity, deep bonds and family dramas. Rosamund Young has been an organic farmer for over forty years and this is her record of a life at the beck and call of the animals while observing and preserving the abundant wildlife at Kites Nest Farm. It is a story of joy, discovery, cooperation and sometimes heartbreak. We learn about sheep growing old disgracefully, the intelligence of supposedly bird-brained hens, conversations between cows and why you should never send a text whilst milking . . .Delightful. ALAN BENNETT, ON THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS

Muito se engana quem pensa que para ter um jardim é necessário dispor de muito espaço, tempo ou mesmo aptidão para cuidar de plantas.Os terrários são ecossistemas em miniatura que podem ser montados