Organic Landcare

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity Begins in Your Back Yard
by Chip Phelan

Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity are not new concepts in the organic gardening community. However, with the current state of the world, from rising oil prices to global climate change, the time to ensure adequate and sustainable food supplies is upon us. 

Sustainable agriculture is the ability to get continually productive results by using environmentally ethical practices to grow crops. This includes organic farming methods, such as composting, crop rotation and companion planting. Read full text...

How to Grow Healthy Food
by Linda Paquette

Every year, gardeners spend thousands of dollars on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that are little more than a quick fix to gardening problems and create long-term health hazards for everyone. What Linda is getting at here is that organic gardening makes sense because when you garden organically you not only create healthy food but you also help to keep the earth free of toxins.  Read full text. 

Chicken Soup for the Soil
by Jean Fritz

Organic gardening requires more than seeds, sun and rain. Maintaining healthy soil is vital to growing healthy vegetables in your organic garden. Learn a few valuable tips for preparing your soil and watch your organic garden thrive.  Read full text. 

How to Lose Weight While Gardening
by Candee Stark

Are you interested in learning how you can turn your love of organic gardening into a way to lose weight? Not only will growing organic vegetables burn calories but it will provide you with healthful, low calorie food!  Read full text.  

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control : A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

An excellent handbook with entries for common fruits, flowering plants, vegetables, and trees. Each listing has information on disease and pest problems and tips on how to solve them without chemicals. Especially useful sections feature photos of garden insects and diseases.
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