Activating soil fertility for growing healthy food
This Biodynamic Farming Handbook is a unique guide to Biodynamics as an advanced organic, regenerative farming method which does not use artificial fertilizers, chemical pesticides, fungicides or herbicides.
The original biodynamic sowing and planting calendar ? essential reading for over 60 years! The simple, two-week-to-view layout features detailed planting, tending and harvesting information to help everyone from seasoned biodynamic farmers to beginner gardeners maximise the yield and vitality of their crops and plants. Trusted by generations of ......
The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook is the modern homesteader's guide to raising, feeding, breeding, selling, and enjoying the noblest animal on the farm-the chicken. From the rooster's crow in the morning, to the warm egg in the nesting box, chickens are the gateway livestock for almost every homesteader and backyard farm ......
Throughout Australia, weeds are spreading faster than they can be controlled and Australia is only second to America in cases of herbicide resistant weeds. Gwyn Jones, international author and educator, uses his many years of experience in this field to show us in simple language how to take a new eco-logical approach and turn weeds into solutions
Today, biodynamic agriculture is practised in more than 50 countries worldwide and offers a way of growing high-quality produce through the sustainable cultivation of soil, plants and animals. But where did it begin and how did it come to have such an impact?
This book brings together the best advice for cultivating fruit trees, berries and shrubs using biodynamic methods, with the aim of harvesting healthy fruit free of pesticides.Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, a pioneer of biodynamics in North America, discusses the principles of tree biology before describing the measures that can be taken to develop a ......
This important exploration of the preparations is essential reading for biodynamic practitioners. It explores the origins and theory of the preparations, the stages that go into making them, and the effect they have on the soil and plants.
Biodynamic techniques recognise that plant life is intimately bound up with the life of the soil: that the soil itself is alive and vital and that the degree of vitality has a direct bearing on the health of the crops. Through the nurture and care of the soil you will soon be able to grow quality produce which possesses vitality and has the ......
