Book Data

ISBN: 9781603583497
Year Added to Catalog: 2010
Book Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Number of Pages: 96
Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Web Product ID: 607

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Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops

Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically

by Brian Caldwell

Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:

Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)
Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)
Farm design for pest reduction (diversity, crop rotation)
Unorthodox approaches (farmers out of the box)
Identifying pests
Crop-by-crop pests and practices

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About the Author

Brian Caldwell

Brian Caldwell is the Farm Education Coordinator for the New York Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA-NY). For twenty years, he and his wife, Twinkle Griggs, ran Hemlock Grove Farm, a small commercial organic vegetable and fruit farm in hilly West Danby, NY. They helped found the Finger Lakes Organic Coop and were active members in the Ithaca Farmers' Market (another farmer-owned cooperative) during that time. He received an MS in Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture from Cornell University in 1986. As a Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator, Brian advised commercial vegetable and berry growers in a five-county region ...

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