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Edition: Paperback
Format: 128 b&w illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index
Pages: 8 x 10, 352 pages
ISBN: 9780930031756
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date: 1989-08-01
The New Organic Grower
Eliot Coleman; Foreword by Paul HawkenTable of Contents
| | ||
| Foreword | ix | |
| Preface | xi | |
| Preface to the First Edition | xii | |
| 1 | Agricultural Craftsmanship | 1 |
| 2 | Land | 7 |
| 3 | Scale and Capital | 19 |
| 4 | Part-Time Help | 24 |
| 5 | Marketing Strategy | 29 |
| 6 | Planning and Observation | 33 |
| 7 | Crop Rotation | 50 |
| 8 | Green Manures | 68 |
| 9 | Tillage | 82 |
| 10 | Soil Fertility | 94 |
| 11 | Farm-Generated Fertility | 111 |
| 12 | Direct Seeding | 119 |
| 13 | Transplanting | 127 |
| 14 | Soil Blocks | 133 |
| 15 | Setting Out Transplants | 154 |
| 16 | Weeds | 158 |
| 17 | Pest? | 172 |
| 18 | Pests: Temporary Palliatives | 185 |
| 19 | Harvest | 190 |
| 20 | Marketing | 196 |
| 21 | Season Extension | 204 |
| 22 | The Movable Feast | 225 |
| 23 | The Winter Garden | 240 |
| 24 | Livestock | 268 |
| 25 | The Information Resource | 278 |
| 26 | A Final Question | 289 |
| 27 | L'Envoi | 293 |
| 28 | From Artichokes to Zucchini | 293 |
| Appendix 1 | USDA North American Hardiness Zone Map | 313 |
| Appendix 2 | A Schematic Outline of Biological Agriculture | 314 |
| Appendix 3 | Metric Conversions | 316 |
| Appendix 4 | Recommended Tools & Suppliers | 318 |
| Annotated Bibliography | 326 | |
| Index | 335 | |