Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Cities Farming for the Future
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Cities Farming for the Future
Author: René van VeenhuizenPublisher: Ruaf Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Defines urban agriculture as the growing of plants and raising of animals for food and other uses, and related processing and marketing activities within and around cities and towns. Notes its importance for poverty alleviation and social inclusion, urban food security, and urban greening. Compiles examples from countries around the world, covering the involvement of multiple stakeholders, integration of agriculture in urban land use planning, financing and investment issues, gendering and building of communities, wastewater use and recycling of organic waste, livestock farming, aquatic production, urban forestry, etc.
Productive Farming
Author: Kary Cadmus DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Productive Farming
Author: Joseph A. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Farming the Woods
Author: Ken MudgePublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603585079
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Learn how to fill forests with food by viewing agriculture from a remarkably different perspective: that a healthy forest can be maintained while growing a wide range of food, medicinal, and other nontimber products. The practices of forestry and farming are often seen as mutually exclusive, because in the modern world, agriculture involves open fields, straight rows, and machinery to grow crops, while forests are reserved primarily for timber and firewood harvesting. In Farming the Woods, authors Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel demonstrate that it doesn’t have to be an either-or scenario, but a complementary one; forest farms can be most productive in places where the plow is not: on steep slopes and in shallow soils. Forest farming is an invaluable practice to integrate into any farm or homestead, especially as the need for unique value-added products and supplemental income becomes increasingly important for farmers. Many of the daily indulgences we take for granted, such as coffee, chocolate, and many tropical fruits, all originate in forest ecosystems. But few know that such abundance is also available in the cool temperate forests of North America. Farming the Woods covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value nontimber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamentals, and more. Along with profiles of forest farmers from around the country, readers are also provided comprehensive information on: • historical perspectives of forest farming; • mimicking the forest in a changing climate; • cultivation of medicinal crops; • cultivation of food crops; • creating a forest nursery; • harvesting and utilizing wood products; • the role of animals in the forest farm; and, • how to design your forest farm and manage it once it’s established. Farming the Woods is an essential book for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland, are looking for productive ways to manage it, and are interested in incorporating aspects of agroforestry, permaculture, forest gardening, and sustainable woodlot management into the concept of a whole-farm organism.
Productive Farming: or a familiar digest of the ... discoveries of Liebig, Davy and other ... writers on vegetable chemistry. ... Second edition
Author: Joseph A. SmithProductive Farming
Author: Kary Cadmus DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Productive Farming
Author: Kary Cadmus DavisPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330314029
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Excerpt from Productive Farming This book is intended to suit the needs of rural schools of all kinds, and graded village and city schools chiefly below high-school rank. It is believed that many high-schools wanting a less advanced course in agriculture than is offered in more difficult books will find this text helpful. It is hoped that farmers and others pursuing a short course, a reading-circle course, a correspondence course, or a home-reading course will find this volume of value. Such persons should read the exercises but probably omit the trial of some of them. In the preparation of this book the writer has been aided very materially by a number of people. The ever-present memory of the boys and girls with whom the writer has associated as a schoolmate or as teacher in the rural schools and graded schools has been an inspiration and help in preparing every lesson to be studied by other such boys and girls. The many teachers of both rural and graded schools who have criticized the lessons as they have been presented by the writer have spurred him on to do his best in the making of this book. It is to such teachers and such boys and girls that this book should be dedicated, for they have been in the writer's mind every moment of the time. Special acknowledgment is due to a number of persons who have helped in the preparation of the whole book or of special chapters. Professor Dick J. Crosby, Specialist in Agricultural Education of the United States Department of Agriculture, has read the first manuscript of the whole book and parts of the second draft. His suggestions and help have been so valuable that his name should go on the title page if he would allow it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Productive Farm Crops
Author: Edward Gerrard MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Agricultural Productivity in the United States
Author: Mary AhearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description