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MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

2011-11-19T22:41:00.001-05:00

SANTA BARBARA ORGANICS

2010-10-31T21:37:00.000-04:00

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Soil Minerals Home: organic garden soil minerals, trace minerals, fertilizers and soil testing for gardens, landscapes, and sustainable agriculture

2010-10-28T15:13:00.000-04:00

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Recommended reading on organic agriculture and farming in general.

2010-05-23T22:37:00.001-04:00

Recommended reading on organic agriculture and farming in general.

Barry Lia wrote:
Lord Northbourne
Look to the Land
Northbourne seems to have first coined the term "organic farming" in 1940.

Sir Albert Howard
An Agricultural Testament
Farming and Gardening For Health or Disease
The Soil and Health

BIODYNAMICS
Rudolph Steiner
Ehrenfried Pfeifer
Wolf Storl
Herbert Koepf

Masanobu Fukuoka
One Straw Revolution
zero till farming, let the weeds grow and plant within them, SEEDBALLS

F.H. King
Farmers of 40 Centuries
The Soil

Lady Eve Balfour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Eve_Balfour
Images: http://www.google.com/images?q=Lady+Eve+Balfour&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___US365&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=H975S_DTN4GC8gbd_pHTCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQsAQwAw
Lady Evelyn Barbara "Eve" Balfour (1899-1990) was an English farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the University of Reading.
The daughter of the second Earl of Balfour, she began farming in 1920, in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England. In 1939, with her friend and neighbor Ryan Nelson, she launched the Haughley Experiment, the first long-term, side-by-side scientific comparison of organic and chemical-based farming.
In 1943, she published the organics classic, "The Living Soil", a book combining her research with the initial findings at Haughley.
In 1946, she co-founded and became the first president of the Soil Association, an international organization claiming to promote sustainable agriculture (and the main organic farming association in the UK today). She continued to farm, write and lecture for the rest of her life.

Louis Bromfield
Malabar Farm

J.I. Rodale
The Healthy Hunzas
Pay Dirt
The Organic Front

W.R. Thompson (The Pasture Man)
The Pasture Book
pps. 8-9:
Calendar of pasture activities (fascinating and diverse activities - LL)
April
7. Move livestock from kudzu-crimson or kudzu-winter pea area.
8. Set kudzu crowns
September
13. Harvest Dallis grass seed.

P. Aquatias
Formerly French Gardener to A.J. Molyneux, Esq.
Intensive Culture of Vegetables on the French System
London, 1913
(The Bible, along with the works of Chadwick, Jeavons, Coleman and others - LL)

MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux
of Paris
The Vegetable Garden
Illustrations, Descriptions and Culture
of
The Garden Vegetables
Of Cold and Temperate Climates
London, 1885

Edward Faulkner
Plowman's Folly

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Andrew Jackson Downing

Books by:
Richard Langer
Gene Logsdon

Cyril Hopkins
Soil Fertility and Permanent Agriculture
Country Life Education Series
Chapter: Theories Concerning Soil Fertility
P. 341Fertility of Soil
Artificial Fertilizers Said To Be All Wrong
Special Correspondence.
Washington, Nov. 17
"Artificial fertilizers - phosphates and nitrates, chiefly -
act upon the soil as drugs act upon the human body, according to
investigations just completed by the Bureau of Soils of the Department of Agriculture.
Although there are some experiments and some tabulation of results yet to be made, the scientists have gone far enough to evolve a theory that may upset present-day methods of agriculture.
The new theory is based on a series of experiments that have been conducted during the summer and for several years prior to this season.
They intend to show that there are natural agencies at work in the soil that will replenish worn-out 'soil tissues' just as the worn out tissues of the body in man are replaces by agencies inside.
Only in the case of man there is usually a limit to this process, whereas, in soils, the scientists have observed some wonderful results from soils long ago abandoned as useless.
Sensible rotation of crops will produce much better and more lasting results than the artificial fertilization of soils, say the experts."
-- Freport (Illinois) Daily Bulletin, November 19, 1909

[He seems to be advocating polyculture, culture of annual, perennial, orchard and forest crops and crop rotation within farming systems utilizing permaculture methods - LL]

Founders of the Permaculture movement:
Bill Mollison:
Permaculure Designer's Manual
The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition
David Holmgren

Eliot Coleman
Books on home, market and all seasons gardening (all classics)

John Jeavons
How To Grow More Vegetables (a classic)

Firman Bear
Earth: The Stuff Of Life

Charles Piper
Forage Plants and Their Culture
The Rural Text-Book Series Edited by L.H. Bailey
See a few scanned pages from this book,
http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#
notably pictures of pigs on kudzu in a pasture: http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#5469848478333184642
http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#

Newman Turner
Fertility Pastures

Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird
The Secret Life of Plants
Secrets of the Soil

Organic Consumers Association

2010-05-21T21:29:00.000-04:00

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Garden Tools

2010-05-19T21:57:00.000-04:00

Garden Tools

Covers, text and images from public domain out of print books on agriculture, farming, gardening and landscaping.

2010-05-11T03:48:00.001-04:00

http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#

The frogs are making a comeback, at least at Venaura Farm

2010-04-27T19:34:00.001-04:00

Here they are in person:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/3-30-2010-FrogsInNEPond.WMA
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/frogs-in-ponds

Bed forming implement used at Venaura Farm - Roll-A-Cone Hiller-Bedder

2010-03-29T02:03:00.002-04:00

For more farm and bed forming implement pictures go to this blog post:
http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/2008/12/eric-kindberg-pictures-of-his-farm.html
And this URL:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/raisedbeds/

"Seed Saver’s Exchange, Svalgard, and the USDA" by Kent Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange

2010-01-27T08:09:00.000-05:00

http://proliberty.com/observer/20090920.html
OR:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture/2010-January/035735.html

Seed Saver’s Exchange, Svalgard, and the USDA
by Kent Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange

"The following is an excerpt from a July 2009 letter sent
by the founder of Seed Saver’s Exchange to SSE members."

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Eric Kindberg's bed forming implements and Roll-A-Cone hiller-bedder & Yeomans plow used at Venaurafarm

2008-12-16T00:52:00.002-05:00

More pics: raised beds and bedding equipment at Venaura Farm

Eric Kindberg wrote in 2008:
"Here is the bed former I built since 1985 and sold.
The Hawaiian land is the first time tilled for 20 years straight out of brush; the lower three in Iowa 1997;
the lower picture in Arkansas 1988.

Now, I build in China a much improved machine, more compact, easily adapted to bed forming,
cover crop knife roller and straight subsoiling for pasture renovation, etc. , plus fertility amendments if one desires."

Updated URL's

2007-11-13T19:59:00.000-05:00

EcoLandTech & PermaSphere: http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech

Gardening Hand Tool Sourcelist: http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq

George Monbiot's Newsletter: http://www.monbiot.com

Websites In PermaSphere Search Engine

2006-10-25T03:53:00.000-04:00

EcoLandTech
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech
Scythe Connection
http://www.scytheconnection.com/
Fukuoka Farming
http://www.fukuokafarmingol.net/
Soil & Health Library
http://www.soilandhealth.org/index.html
Journey To Forever
http://journeytoforever.org/
ATTRA
http://www.attra.org/
AFSIC - National Agricultural Library, Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=2&tax_level=1
Society of Primitive Technology
http://www.primitive.org/
Soil Foodweb, Inc.
http://www.soilfoodweb.com/
Ecology Action
http://www.growbiointensive.org/biointensive/Ecology.html
Plants For A Future
http://www.pfaf.org/
Permaculture FAQ at ATTRA
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html
Permaculture Activist
http://www.permacultureactivist.net/
ARS News
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/index.html
Sal's Don't Panic Eat Organic, an organic grower's website
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
Pattern Literacy
http://www.patternliteracy.com
Pattern Literacy's permaculture reading list
http://www.patternliteracy.com/reading.html
Gardening Hand Tool Sourcelist
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq
Various permaculture & biological agriculture bibliographies
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/permaculture-bibliography-1.txt
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/pawa-Permaculture-books.txt
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/constructed-wetlands.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/Bibliographic-References-At-EcoLandTech

2006-10-11T14:34:00.000-04:00

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