Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm: 3 (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series) - Tapa blanda

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Gershuny, Grace

 
9781603583473: Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm: 3 (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)
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ISBN 10: 1603583475 ISBN 13: 9781603583473
Editorial: Chelsea Green, 2011

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

Grace Gershuny, in addition to her position on the staff of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, has worked for many years as an educator, organizer, and market gardener. She is nationally known in the alternative agriculture movement, is the author of Start With the Soil, and Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm as well as co-author of The Rodale Book of Composting and The Soul of Soil. She is on the faculties of the Institute for Social Ecology and Goddard College, and lives in Barnet, Vermont.

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Editorial
Chelsea Green
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1603583475
ISBN 13 
9781603583473
Encuadernación
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Ilustrador
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Número de páginas
104
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