How to Grow More Vegetables

For a biologically intensive production farmer, thousands, or tens of thousands, of transplants can be very time-consuming to pl ...

can make holes on 6-inch oAset centers deep enough to plant the seedlings. The marker shown here is for a 5- foot-wide bed and c ...

6 1.5" x 1.5" x 36" (dowel support bars) 2 ¾" x 39¾" EMT (Electric conduit pipe for top handle and dibbleaxle) 2 1.5" x 1.5" x 6 ...

Wheel Axle (detail) ...

Rolling Dibble Marker (side view) Rolling Drum (cross section) ...

BED MARKER Seldom does the production market gardener want to waste time keeping things pretty. So, keeping 900 beds in alignmen ...

string taught and nicely above the bed to be both accurate and convenient when working in the bed. (It is always a time waster a ...

APPENDIX 2 The Efficacy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method in Increasing Sustainable Yields and Building Soils As the charts below ...

practices, an additional equal area will be needed to produce the amount of organic matter necessary to sustain soil fertility f ...

Year 2000, developing nations (where 80% of the world’s population was living) with water available 16,000 sq ft Year 2014–2021, ...

Levels of Water water available) 4,000 sq ft (year 2000, water scarce) Insufficient *Number of square feet represents the area t ...

4,000 sq ft (year 2000, water scarce) Insufficient DIET Vegan AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUE Conventional or Organic (post-fossil fuel) ...

4,000 sq ft (year 2000, water scarce) Sufficient land and no surplus GROW BIOINTENSIVE Applications The GROW BIOINTENSIVE method ...

loosening the soil 12 inches deep and incorporating a 3-inch layer of aged manure with some compost. The broccoli on the right d ...

unsustainably. Eventually we hope to produce as much food per hour by hand as commercial agriculture produces with machines. Ke ...

* more if food is marketed directly to stores and consumers # Full range does not apply to all crops Pounds of food produced per ...

Potential resource use ranges as compared with local averages, per pound of food produced ...

Soil Build-Up Rate with GROW BIOINTENSIVE Practices at Palo Alto Site Compared with Normal Build-Up Rate A. Observed increase (b ...

Remains at “natural” steady-state level? —Unlikely. B. Drastic drop back down to zero? —Unlikely. C. Substantial drop, but level ...

organic techniques (assuming similar nonmeat diets). In addition, chemical techniques deplete the soil’s capacity to produce. Wi ...