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The Soul of Soil

A Soil-building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers

By: Grace Gershuny,Joseph Smillie

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The Soul of Soil

A Soil-building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers

By: Grace Gershuny,Joseph Smillie

Soil is the basis not only for all gardening, but for all terrestrial life. No aspect of agriculture is more fundamental and important, yet we have been losing vast quantities of our finite soil resources to erosion, pollution, and development. This book provides essential information about one of the most significant challenges for those attempting to grow delicious organic vegetables: the creation and maintenance of healthy soil. In chapter two, the authors give a clear explanation of the subjects, soil life and nutrient cycles. The book provides coherent descriptions of key concepts including cation exchange capacity and chelation. In a concise presentation, the authors give readers important information, including technical essentials and useful tables that list specific compost materials, green manures, and other resources that allow growers to translate into action the more general information provided by the book. The soil-building techniques featured include: Organic matter management ; Building and maintaining humus ; On-site composting ; Green manures and rotations ; Cultivation and weed control ; Nutrient balances and soil testing ; Using mineral fertilizers ; Planning for organic certification. All of us involved in the cultivation of plants, from the backyard gardener to the largest farmer, need to help regenerate a "living soil," for only in the diversity of the soil and its creatures can we ensure the long-term health of ourselves and our environment. This book offers everyone a basic understanding of what soil is and what we can do to improve our own patch of it.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1890132314

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Organic Revolutionary

By: Grace Gershuny

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Organic Revolutionary

By: Grace Gershuny

Grace Gershuny was a principal author of the USDA's first proposed National Organic rule, and left the National Organic Program staff shortly before the final rule was published. The story of this process, which consumed much of her life for five years, is interwoven here with the story of her movement along her own personal timeline before, during, and after this arduous federal process. It's the story of how the organic revolution became rooted well before the federal government cared to notice, and the personal, political, and practical struggles that ensued in the heroic effort to move it beyond farmers' markets and into supermarkets.

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Lulu.com

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0997232722

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9780997232721

Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea

Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm

By: Grace Gershuny

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Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea

Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm

By: Grace Gershuny

What are the advantages of making one's own compost? Is there really a benefit to using compost as opposed to building soil organic matter through other means? How can the decision about compost making affect a farm's economics? Part of the NOFA Guides series, this manual will help answer these questions, and is specifically intended to address the conditions faced by organic farmers in the Northeast. Information on composting techniques, including: Principles and biology of composting Temperature, aeration and moisture control Composting methods Materials (additives and inoculants, biodynamic preparations) About costs (site preparation, equipment, labor and time) What do you do with it? Compost tea and other brewed microbial cultures Compost and the law With extended appendices including a recipe calculator, potting mix recipes, and a sample compost production budget sheet.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603583483

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Organic Revolutionary

A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation

By: Gershuny Grace Gershuny

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Organic Revolutionary

A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation

By: Gershuny Grace Gershuny

An influential founding member of the American organic agriculture movement and a long-time organic farmer, Grace Gershuny gives us one of the most comprehensive and deeply personal accounts of adventures in that movement ever written. A principal author of the USDA's first proposed National Organic rule, Gershuny left the National Organic Program staff just before the final rule was published. The complicated story of that movement for nationwide organic regulations, which consumed Gershuny's life for five years, is interwoven here with her own personal timeline before, during, and after the arduous federal process. This memoir explores how the organic revolution became rooted well before the US federal government cared to notice. Gershuny asks important ongoing questions about the organic movement that still aren't receiving enough attention, such as whether organic standards should be consumer or farmer-driven and if organic agriculture architecture will be able to maintain its principles as it becomes mainstream. Entertaining yet urgent, Organic Revolutionary thoughtfully details the personal, political, and practical struggles that ensued in the heroic effort to push the organic movement beyond farmers' markets and into supermarkets.

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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155164679X

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The Soul of Soil

A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers, 4th Edition

By: Joseph Smillie,Grace Gershuny

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The Soul of Soil

A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers, 4th Edition

By: Joseph Smillie,Grace Gershuny

Soil is the basis not only for all gardening, but for all terrestrial life. No aspect of agriculture is more fundamental and important, yet we have been losing vast quantities of our finite soil resources to erosion, pollution, and development. Now back in print, this eminently sensible and wonderfully well-focused book provides essential information about one of the most significant challenges for those attempting to grow delicious organic vegetables: the creation and maintenance of healthy soil. Chapter 2, "Understanding the Soil System," is alone worth the price of admission. Gershuny and Smillie give lay readers and experts a clear explanation of subjects--soil life and nutrient cycles--that have confounded most authors. Nowhere will the reader find simpler and more coherent descriptions of key concepts including cation exchange capacity and chelation. There are other books about soil available, including Grace Gershuny's comprehensive Start with the Soil, and there are books that feature chapters on soil building. What distinguishes The Soil of Soilis the authors' concise presentation; they give readers important information, including technical essentials, without getting bogged down in scientific or quasiscientific mumbo-jumbo. In addition, useful tables list specific compost materials, green manures, and other resources that allow growers to translate into action the more general information provided by the book. The soil-building techniques featured include: Organic matter management Building and maintaining humus On-site composting Green manures and rotations Cultivation and weed control Nutrient balances and soil testing Using mineral fertilizers Planning for organic certification Updates to the 1999 edition include analysis of Proposed Rules for the National Organic Standards, and expanded recommendations for private testing services and soil-testing equipment for home gardeners and organic farmers. All of us involved in the cultivation of plants--from the backyard gardener to the largest farmer--need to help regenerate a "living soil," for only in the diversity of the soil and its creatures can we ensure the long-term health of ourselves and our environment. The Soul of Soil offers everyone a basic understanding of what soil is and what we can do to improve our own patch of it. Seen in this light, this practical handbook will be an inspiration as well.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603581243

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Start with the Soil

The Organic Gardener's Guide to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-care Garden

By: Grace Gershuny

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Start with the Soil

The Organic Gardener's Guide to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-care Garden

By: Grace Gershuny

Successful gardeners know that a beautiful, fruitful garden depends on healthy soil. This complete guide to understanding and improving the soil shows how to begin the process with easy-to-find organic materials.

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St. Martin's Press

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0875966977

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The Soul of Soil

A Guide to Ecological Soil Management

By: Grace Gershuny,Joseph Smillie

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The Soul of Soil

A Guide to Ecological Soil Management

By: Grace Gershuny,Joseph Smillie

Besides an introduction to soil chemistry and ecology, this book deals with basic principles of tillage and organic matter management. Further it includes a chapter on observing and testing the soil (with special reference to the Pfeiffer chromatographic method)

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G A I a Services

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0961649607

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Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea

Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm

By: Grace Gershuny

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Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm

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1603583483

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The Rodale Book of Composting

Easy Methods for Every Gardener

By: Deborah L. Martin,Grace Gershuny

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The Rodale Book of Composting

Easy Methods for Every Gardener

By: Deborah L. Martin,Grace Gershuny

Explains what composting is and how it works, provides instructions for making and using compost, and offers ecologically sound solutions to waste disposal problems

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0878579915

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The Rodale Book of Composting, Newly Revised and Updated

Simple Methods to Improve Your Soil, Recycle Waste, Grow Healthier Plants, and Create an Earth-Friendly Garden

By: Grace Gershuny,Deborah L. Martin

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The Rodale Book of Composting, Newly Revised and Updated

Simple Methods to Improve Your Soil, Recycle Waste, Grow Healthier Plants, and Create an Earth-Friendly Garden

By: Grace Gershuny,Deborah L. Martin

An essential guide to composting for all gardeners and environmentally conscious people This revised edition of The Rodale Book of Composting includes all the latest in new techniques, technology, and equipment. Gardeners know composting is the best way to feed the soil and turn food scraps into fresh produce, but even urbanites can get on board thanks to programs like compost pickup and citywide food waste initiatives—there’s no better way to reduce landfill waste (and subsequent emissions) and dependence on fossil fuels while nourishing the earth. The Rodale Book of Composting offers easy-to-follow instructions for making and using compost; helpful tips for apartment dwellers, suburbanites, farmers, and community leaders; and ecologically sound solutions to growing waste-disposal problems.

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1635651034

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Organic Revolutionary

A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation

By: Gershuny Grace Gershuny

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A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation

By: Gershuny Grace Gershuny

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