How to Grow More Vegetables

The Need for Up to 99% Sustainability At Ecology Action, we are investigating the components of GROW BIOINTENSIVE as possibly on ...

an acre) that may soon be all that is available to each man, woman, and child living in developing nations (see Appendix 2). Soo ...

Ecology Action’s Pursuit of Sustainability When Ecology Action began the Common Ground Mini- Farm in Willits, California, the so ...

In order to preserve diversity on Earth: It is important to keep at least half of the Earth’s viable land as a natural preserve. ...

CURRENT GOALS OF UNDERSTANDING AND ACHIEVING 99% SUSTAINABILITY Our goals are to understand how a garden or mini-farm can: Prod ...

that produce large amounts of calories in limited space per unit of time. Have a maximum of 10% in vegetable crops for addition ...

30% high-calorie root crops (e.g., potatoes) for maximum calories – 12 beds 60% carbon-and-calorie crops (e.g., grains) for maxi ...

cu ft buckets inch 30 lb and up 180 lb and up 4 cu ft 6 five-gallon buckets ½ inch 60 lb and up 360 lb and up Notes: Application ...

Turnips, including tops (8.8 beds); requires 19.4 lbs/day Peanuts (0.9 lbs); requires 34.1 beds Onions, regular (12.7 beds); req ...

available farmable land. The skill of growing all your nutrition sustainably in a reduced area will be invaluable. We o:er the r ...

day, but the area needed to grow your diet will generally increase. If you chose to eat more high-calorie root crops, the weigh ...

Sustainability Lessons: Biosphere2, a closed-system living project in Arizona during the 1990s, used techniques based on those r ...

their calorie food needs on a basis that also feeds the soil adequately. When people say that they are growing their own food, t ...

culture in northern Iran raised one person’s calories with just 20 hours of work a year—20 minutes a day for 60 days. Their stap ...

ENDNOTES 1 Of course, the nutrients that we eat then pass through our bodies as “waste.” Recycling humanure and urine is often c ...

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I 3 THE USE OF COMPOST AND SOIL FERTILITY GOAL: Maximize quality and quantity of cured compost produced per unit of compost buil ...

Cereal rye roots grow to 6 feet deep. Composting in nature occurs in at least 3 ways: It occurs in the form of manures, which a ...

calcium, 7 times richer in available phosphorus, and 11 times richer in available potassium than the soil they inhabit.^1 It oc ...