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Bezig met laden... Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture (2018)door Gabe Brown
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book was not what I expected and not what I thought I was getting into, but super exciting. Gabe Brown describes his journey into regenerative agriculture, based upon building healthy soil that follows the natural ecosystem of his land. As a backyard gardener, I’m not working at a scale but learned a ton of things. Not much about chaos gardening, which is why I thought I was reading the book :-), but a ton of things. ( ) As a newbie learning about gardening, I found this book displayed at the public library and on my first read of this book, here is my interpretation for how to improve my veggie garden: 1. Try the idea of no tilling which means, instead of my original plan of tilling the soil every few years, try Brown's idea of leaving the soil alone and letting it slowly get enriched over time by adding compost and top soil on top and letting it soak into the soil. Tilling, I think, messes up the soil structure that is developing over time, instead, let it be. 2. Try crop rotation and keep planting seeds in the soil so that there is all year around roots in the soil. 3. Try the idea of cover crops where we plant multiple types of seeds to cover up the soil and this prepares and gets the soil ready for planting something else later on. 4. Try planting a wide variety of seeds. 5. Think about the benefits of using a website for people to place orders and decide pick up locations and also being a part of farmer's markets. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown - in an effort to simply survive - began experimenting with new practices he'd learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers. As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture. Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture. He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices. In doing so, Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life - starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time. In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil. The Brown's Ranch model, developed over 20 years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil. Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown's 5,000-acre ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only 20 years! The key is how we think, Brown says. In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things. But that mind-set was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized. Now, he channels his creative thinking toward how he can get more life on the land - more plants, animals, and beneficial insects. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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