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Small Scale Cotton Growing & Processing - By Nev Sweeney: I am
interested in processes, how things are made from start to finish like
growing the wheat to grind to make flour to bake the bread sort of thing and
I suppose that this is where this idea started out. Being your average city
slicker, I had never seen cotton growing, except in those old movies set in
the deep (American) south, although I did know that we produced a fair bit
of cotton here in Australia. Having worn cotton undies for years I assumed
that it gave me a unique insight into the growing of the raw material, well
perhaps not, but knowing nothing about its cultivation I was ready to give
it a go!
Intensive Gardening Intensively cultivated vegetable gardens can
supply a great deal of a family's food from very little land. However, to
maintain their productivity, these gardens require a lot of fertilizer and
some special techniques, which are discussed below. As one crop is finished,
another is put in its place throughout the growing season. Without
additional fertilizer the soil would soon be worn out. Cost of the garden
can be kept low by using compost and a crop rotation system that also
includes poultry or other livestock, which can give a steady supply of
manure. This virtually eliminates fertilizer costs. The best way to ensure a
large supply of manure is to keep the animals in a pen, barn, or corral,
especially at night.
Making seedling pots from Newspaper Plants such as parsley hate
being transplanted, so using a bio-degradable pot made out of newspaper is
an ideal solution to help anyone who wishes to start off a seedling indoors
for transplantation. These are ideal as the newspaper will rot down and the
roots will grow through the newspaper.
Food from Dryland Gardens - An Ecological, Nutritional, and Social
Approach to Small Scale Household Food Production (CPFE, 1991)
Fertilizers &
Fertilizers Manual II -
Bio-intensive Approach to Small-scale Household Food Production (IIRR, 1993,
180 p.)
Seeds and Plant Propagation. Agroforestry
Technology Information Kit (IIRR, 1992,
105 p.) See also:
Agroforestry_2 &
AgroForestry - (
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One Hundred and One Technologies - From the South for the South (IDRC,
1992, 231 p.)
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