How to Grow More Vegetables

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. GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-

Farming—with its high yields and low local resource needs—can help make this

possible.

Today, we are much closer to achieving closed-system
soil humus sustainability within the limits of the mini-
farm. We rarely import any compost materials from
outside the beds (besides weeds from path spaces and
kitchen scraps that contain scraps from outside sources).
In addition, we are exploring di:erent levels of
maintaining sustainable soil fertility. These methods
involve using di:erent amounts of cured compost with
di:erent corresponding crop yield levels resulting (see
chapter 3).
Because we are not currently returning the nutrients in
our human urine and manure to the mini-farm’s soil, we
need to import some organic fertilizers to maintain the
nutrient levels and balance in the soil. (Over time, the
amounts and number of fertilizers has decreased
signicantly as the nutrients are retained and cycled in
the compost.) For the future, we are exploring ways to
safely, e:ectively, and legally return the nutrients in our
waste to the soil from which they came. Our original
goal was to produce relevant yield averages with the
same amount, or less, of equivalent inputs as
conventional agriculture. Today our goal is to eventually
produce at least relevant averages with no additional
inputs after the soil is built up on a one-time basis.