Natural Farming: a Practical Guide

Unlock the secrets of sustainable agriculture with *Natural Farming: a Practical Guide*. This essential handbook emphasizes the importance of healthy soil in growing vibrant plants, robust animals, and nourished humans. Delve into straightforward explanations of soil chemistry that every farmer can grasp, as well as the detrimental effects of superphosphates and artificial fertilizers used over decades. Discover how to rejuvenate your farming practices—whether you're managing market gardens, orchards, broadacre crops, or pastures—using time-tested, environmentally friendly methods.

Learn how to restore the natural fertility of your land, enhance soil health, and boost productivity with practical strategies. This guide includes effective solutions for managing compacted soil, combating erosion, understanding soil analysis, and reducing dependence on harmful chemicals like herbicides and pesticides.

Explore the critical roles of minerals and vitamins for both soil and human health, and find out how to diagnose common animal diseases while nurturing orphan animals. With successful case studies of regenerated lands and healed livestock, *Natural Farming* offers inspiration along with practical remedies for common agricultural ailments. This comprehensive resource empowers farmers to meet the growing global demand for healthy, pure food while saving time and money in their operations. Embrace the future of farming through natural methods that enhance the well-being of the planet and all living beings.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781920769192
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2004
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Pages: 272


Description:
Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message- healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilisers over decades, and explains soil chemistry in terms that every farmer can understand. It describes the exact role of each mineral and vitamin, both in the soil and in the body. And it explains how to prevent expensive disease outbreaks and minimise the use of costly artificial sprays and fertilisers. The prescriptions are simple and can be applied to any farming enterprise market gardens, orchards, broadacre crops and pasture to restore the natural balance and fertility of the land, improve soil health, and increase productivity. The book is enlivened with accounts of spectacular successes in regenerating degraded land and curing animals that, in many cases, had been given up for dead. Natural Farming is an essential handbook for any farmer, with detailed information on- understanding a soil analysis establishment and management of pasture treatment of compacted soil and erosion alternatives to artificial fertilisers, herbicides, and pesticides the significance of weeds strategies for drought diagnosis of diseases and deficiencies in stock remedies for common diseases, including Johne's disease and immune-system disorders rearing orphan animals. Natural Farming equips the farmer to get the best from the land using environmentally sustainable methods which save time, expense, and worry and to supply the rising global demand for pure food.

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