Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

The "Have-More" Plan: "A Little Land -- A Lot of Living": How to Make a Small Cash Income into the Best and Happiest Living Any Family Could Want

the marriage of a 
man and woman really means some- 
thing when you start homesteading. 
Somehow, working close to the earth 
and with nature seems to make the 
combination of man and wife more im- 
portant and, I believe, makes marriage 
a happier success than is* possible in 
sterile city life.. 

https://archive.org/details/TheHaveMorePlan

https://archive.org/stream/TheHaveMorePlan/The%20Have-More%20Plan_djvu.txt

Saturday, January 21, 2017

John Jeavons: Blazing the Trail of Biointensive Agriculture

Generally, to grow food organically, you have to do just two things: Don't use chemical fertilizers, and don't use pesticides. You may be depleting the soil just as fast as a chemical farmer would. Consequently, the food may not always be very nutritious. After all, if you're not building nutrients in the soil, they won't be in your crops.
Organic food, in some instances, may even be toxic. An organic farmer may add a beneficial amendment like manure. But if that manure isn't fully composted, it can contain excessive nitrates—in a form that's easily picked up by a leaf crop like lettuce. So some organic lettuce could possibly give you nitrate poisoning.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/john-jeavons-biointensive-agriculture-zmaz90jfzshe