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What is soil degradation?
Soil Degradation occurs when soil loses organic equilibrium which can be caused due to many reasons including water availability, climate, local vegetation, animal life and human intervention. Healthy soil builds humous over time. Disruption in humous composition is a cause for soil degradation. -
How to Grow Bottle Gourds
Bottle gourds (also Calabash) get their name because of their bottle-like shape. These vegetables are both nutritional and quite easy to grow. If you have ever grown vines, then you're probably aware that most vines can only be grown by germinating from seed. The same goes for Bottle Gourds too. -
What is Aquaculture?
Aquaculture is the farming of fish, aquatic plants like seaweed, crustaceans like crabs and shrimp, mollusks like squid and cuttlefish, and various algae. The term aquafarming is also frequently used to refer to aquaculture. -
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a systems thinking approach to agriculture which utilizes and mimics natural ecosystem patterns. By mimicking nature, agriculturists and gardeners are able to adopt methods which naturally promote land management, soil health and water retention. -
What is mulch?
Possibly derived from the Old English word mylsc, meaning mellow, or from the Middle English word molsh, meaning soft or moist, mulch is a layer of protective material which covers the soil.
Mulch helps the soil stay moist, regulates temperature, protects soil from solar UV rays which has a sterilizing effect, reduces weed growth and slowly improves soil fertility as matter breaks down.
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What is a Food Forest?
A food forest is an agroforestry or agroecosystem that incorporates fruit or nut trees and shrubs, herb plants, vines, perennial vegetables and even some fungus, into a low cost, self-sustaining, mutually beneficial companion flora layered system, aimed at food production. -
What are swales?
A swale is a water harvesting earthworks ditch with a raised lip usually dug on contour, with dig soil being piled towards the downhill lip of the trench, to slow, capture and help water sink into the ground. Depending on terrain, size of operation or irrigation requirements, swales may be kept shallow, deep, or wide. Swales are usually placed with enough of a gap between them, to allow sunk water to adequately penetrate the soil, before the next trench is dug, which also allows for agricultural activities between swales.
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What is Organic Farming?
Organic farming uses natural methods of fertilizer production (like compost or manure), techniques such as companion crops, mixed crops and crop rotation, while nurturing predator species to control pests.
In most cases, organic farming generally does away with all forms of synthetic fertilizers, plant growth regulators or pesticides. Use of antibiotics or hormones in livestock is forbidden, while use of nanomaterials and genetically modified plants or animals is shunned.
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How to grow delicious celery
Celery is a marshland plant of the Apiaceae family, that has been cultivated as a vegetable since ancient times. The vegetable has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. The plant's stalks and leaves may be eaten, depending on the variety grown. -
Button mushrooms are tasty and simple to grow
Have your ever thought growing button mushrooms might be a daunting process? Think again. There are many ways you can grow button mushrooms without... -
How to grow avocado in your backyard or homestead
Avocados provide an essential mix of nutrients including about twenty essential vitamins and minerals. A key benefit is that they do not contain an... -
How to grow carrots in your backyard
Carrots are quite easy to grow. If you know the basic golden rules, you can go through the entire growing process with great ease. Right from sowin...
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