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A Return to the root of the Organic Method
Eliot Coleman
Paperback
$ 29.95
In his first all - new book in fifteen geezerhood , renowned organic grower and bestselling author Eliot Coleman present his “ self - feed ” growing method that ceaselessly sustains territory birthrate and raise delightful , exceptionally nourishing vegetables with no need for purchased fertilizer or compost .
The Self - Fed Farm and Gardenpresents the organic method as a self - sustaining system root in dirt wellness care and shows readers how they can shift to a self - feed model that continually recharges the land with organic matter , thus earmark the soil food internet to render all the nutrients crops need for hefty growth and splendid yield . Based on his long discipline of his library of classic land and gardening books , Eliot Coleman re - mastermind the way he managed territory and crop at Four Season Farm over the past decennary so that he would never take to purchase off - farm inputs of compost or fertilizer .
The ego - fed attack immix classic proficiency practice by the pioneers of organic husbandry , including :
Once you implement a self - fed system , Coleman explain , then you alone — and not the farm and garden production industry — are master of your destiny . A self - fertilise system is safe from contaminant by pollutants , which is a key head in this earned run average of far-flung contamination of territory and water by PFAS and other forever chemicals . The self - fertilize organisation also has the benefit of far low disbursement than those that bank on purchased fertilizers from off the farm . The account book also dig into the rudimentary causes in the shifts in the constitutional move , address out the erosion of standard in the National Organic Program and the greenwashing of the new trend of regenerative agribusiness . Eliot includes specific examples , such as how large corporate interests acted to lobby against those who attempt to protect the indigence for virginal ingredients in composts for organic farm . In the book ’s finish , Eliot describes the next chapter in the life sentence of Four Season Farm as he and his wife , awarding - winning garden script author Barbara Damrosch , step by from the farm - scale production , make place for a new agriculture couplet to steward the land .
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