Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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FOOD GROWING, ANIMALS, HERBS & HEALTH - ONLINE SOURCES
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General Growing
Soil
Greenhouse & Season Extension
Cover Crops
Health & Herbs
Harvesting Rainwater
Farm & Home Equipment
Draft Animals
Poultry, Beef, Donkeys, Goats, Horses, Llamas, Swine, Rabbits,
Sheep, Nuts & Fruits


     GENERAL GROWING
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Achieving Food Independence on the Modern Homestead
http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/achieving-food-independence-industrial-homestead.html

The Old Farmers Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/

Gardening by the Moon
http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com/

Current food production system due for collapse
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableWorldInitiativeF.php

John Ikerd, Agriculture After Fossil Energy
http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerd/papers/Iowa-FmUnion-Energy.htm

Resource Guide to Organic & Sustainable Vegetable Production
By Steve Diver, NCAT Agriculture Specialist
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/vegetable-guide.html

The Synergistic Garden, by Emilia Hazelip, translated from French
http://fukuokafarmingol.info/faemilia.html

Emilia Hazelip - Synergistic Garden video
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1104571

Raised Bed Agriculture
http://www.minifarms.com/rba.html

Intensive Vegetable Gardening
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/quickref/vegetable/intensive_veg_gardening.html

Bio-Intensive Mini-Gardens--Recipe for Survival By John Jeavons
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3659.cfm

Bountiful Gardens
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/

GROW BIOINTENSIVE®: A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION FOR GROWING FOOD
http://www.growbiointensive.org/grow_bio.html

Organic Transitions: Beyond the Gloom & Doom of Economic Depression, Climate 
Change, & Peak Oil
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15140.cfm

American intensive solar gardening
http://eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/SF/Winter%2094%20O.htm

Intensive Gardening Techniques
http://www.gardensimply.com/intensivetechnique.shtml

Biodynamic/French Intensive Gardening
Alan Chadwich demonstrated the techniques of biodynamic/French intensive 
gardening on a barren four-acre clay hillside at the University of 
California's Santa Cruz campus. This method is also used by John Jeavons. The 
theories of biodynamic gardening were originally developed by Rudolf Steiner.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1980-01-01/Biodynamic-French-Intensive-Gardening.aspx

Seed Savers, Seed Exchanges, and Seed Societies
http://www.halcyon.com/tmend/exchanges.htm

What's new is old
Clive Blazey explains why heirloom seeds are superior to hybrids
http://www.diggers.com.au/WhatsNewIsOld.htm

John E. Ikerd papers on sustainable growing
http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/default.htm


     SOIL
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Soils & Compost VERY extensive
http://www.attra.org/soils.html

Guidelines for Fertilizing Organically
http://www.groworganic.com/library_42.html?welcome=T&theses=3828481

The Quest for Nutrient-Dense Food--High-Brix Farming and Gardening
http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/nutrient-dense.html

Rebuilding Soil Fertility
http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/RebuildingSoilFertility_Kinsey10_01.pdf

Industrial vs. Sustainable Agriculture
http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/Indust%20vs%20sustain_dec03.pdf

Remineralize The Earth
http://metalab.unc.edu/london/orgfarm/remineralization/remineralization.selected-writings

No-Till
http://www.rolf-derpsch.com/notill.htm

No-till, permanent bed farming by Ken Hargesheimer from the July/August, 2002 
issue of Countryside & Small Stock Journal
http://www.countrysidemag.com/issues/86/86-4/Ken_Hargesheimer.html

Rodale Institute study of organic no-till
http://www.newfarm.org/depts/notill/index.shtml

Less is more: No-till agriculture helps mitigate global warming
U.S. Department of Energy
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2005-09/dnnl-lim091605.php

Humus - Understanding the Soil Processes
PETRIK LABORATORIES
http://www.petrik.com/PUBLIC/library/ups.html#humus

Humus: Still a Mystery
http://www.nofa.org/tnf/humus.php


     GREENHOUSES & SEASON EXTENSION
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The homestead greenhouse
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/sanders67.html

Northern Greenhouse Sales
http://www.northerngreenhouse.com/ordering/catalog.htm

Season Extension Techniques for Market Gardeners
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/seasonext.html

Scheduling Vegetable Plantings for Continuous Harvest, includes Soil 
Temperature Germination Ranges for Select Vegetables
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/continuousharvest.html

Season-Extending Techniques
http://www.gardeners.com/Season-Extending-Techniques/5063,default,pg.html

Season Extenders
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-381/426-381.html


     COVER CROPS
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Choosing the best cover crops for your organic no-till vegetable system
A detailed guide to using 29 species
http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/features/0104/no-till/chart.shtml

Overview of Cover Crops and Green Manures
Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture
By Preston Sullivan, NCAT Agriculture Specialist
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/covercrop.html


     HEALTH & HERBS
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Henriette's Herbal Homepage
One of the oldest and largest herbal information sites on the web.
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
http://www.swsbm.com/homepage/

Hanna Kroeger: The Grandmother of Health
In 1988, the Colorado District Attorney threatened legal action if Hanna did 
not quit "prescribing" her remedies.
http://wellnessnetworker.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=27
http://www.zhealthinfo.com/hkroeger.htm

North American Institute of Medical Herbalism
http://www.medherb.com/

The Herb Society of America
http://www.herbsociety.org/

Culinary Herb Guide
http://culinaryherbguide.com/

Using herbs in cooking
http://culinaryherbguide.com/usingherbsincooking.htm

Growing, Harvesting and Using Culinary Herbs in the Home Garden 
http://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/herbs.html

HerbNet....for everything herbal
http://www.herbnet.com/

Herbal Business Resources
http://herbsociety.org/library/business.php

The Herb Growing & Marketing Network
http://www.herbworld.com/


     HARVESTING RAINWATER
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster
http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/


     FARM & HOME EQUIPMENT
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Farm & greenhouse supply
http://www.farmtek.com/   - extensive

Agricultural Machinery
http://www.howardrotavator.com/

Homestead tools
http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=677&iMainCat=677&iSubCat=677

Homestead Kitchen
http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=670&iMainCat=670&iSubCat=670

Cartbike Building
http://www.bicyclelaneindustries.com/bli/cartbike/


     ANIMALS
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                             DRAFT ANIMALS
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Draft Horse Journal
http://www.drafthorsejournal.com/homepage.htm#1

Horse Power vs. Horsepower
http://www.ruralheritage.com/horse_paddock/horsepower.htm

Draft Animal Power - Sustainable Farming, Forestry and Living
http://www.draftanimalpower.com/

Donkeys as Draught Animals - also includes general information about raising 
donkeys. - FAO Food & Ag. Organization of the UN
http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/frg/Draught/contents.htm

Tillers International (This organization provides classes in training and 
working with oxen and draft horses)
http://www.wmich.edu/tillers/

                             RELATED INFORMATION
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Breeds of Livestock: Educational information on different breeds of cattle, 
goats, horses, sheep and pigs - Oklahoma State University
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

American Livestock Breeds Conservancy - Breeds Information
http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/wtchlist.html

                             POULTRY
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The How and Why of Free-Range Chickens
http://www.homestead.org/ReginaAnneler/Chickens/FreeRangeChickens.htm

Raising Chickens for Meat and Eggs
http://www.backwoodsliving.com/hatching.html

Backyard Chicken Coop Designs
http://www.backyardchickens.com/coopdesigns.html

Raising Poultry: A Small-Scale Agriculture Alternative
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/poultry/factsheets/smallscale.html

Small Scale Poultry Housing
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/poultry/factsheets/10.html

Hatcheries and Poultry Equipment Supply Houses
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKHatcheries.html

Home Processing of Poultry
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/livestocksystems/DI0701.html

Other Poultry
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/

                             BEEF
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Beef Resources
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library/cattbeef.html

Nutrition and Feeding of the Cow-Calf Herd: Production Cycle Nutrition and 
Nutrient Requirements of Cows, Pregnant Heifers and Bulls
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/beef/400-012/400-012.html

                             DONKEYS
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Miniature Donkeys
http://www.qis.net/~minidonk/donktext.htm

Donkey foal fundamentals- Jeanine A. Rachau
http://www.oregonvos.net/%7Ejrachau/foalcare.htm

Donkeys as Draught Animals - also includes general information about raising 
donkeys. - FAO Food & Ag. Organization of the UN
http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/frg/Draught/contents.htm

                             GOATS
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Goat Resouces
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library/goats.htm

Goat Publications
http://members.tripod.com/~duhgoatman/m-p.htm

Raising Dairy Goats
http://www.ehow.com/how_2071522_raise-dairy-goats.html

Raising Pygmy Goats as Pets
http://vetmed.illinois.edu/petcolumns/showarticle.cfm?id=329

National Goat Handbook- US National Dairy Database - Univ. of Maryland
http://outlands.tripod.com/farm/national_goat_handbook.pdf

                             HORSES
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Horse Resources
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library/equine.htm

The Horse Information Center
http://www.horseinfo.com/

Cherry Hill's Horse Information Roundup
http://www.horsekeeping.com/horse-training-care-info.htm

                             LLAMAS
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General Llama Information
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/alt-ag/llama.htm

Llama & Alpaca Farming Regulations, raising, marketing, nutrition, fencing, 
reproduction & health
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/llamaalpaca.html

                             SWINE
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Swine Resources
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library/swine.htm

Swine Production
http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/swine/index.html

Raising Pot Bellied Pigs as Pets
http://vetmed.illinois.edu/petcolumns/showarticle.cfm?id=248

Hooped Shelters For Hogs ATTRA
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/hooped.html

                             RABBITS
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General Rabbit Information
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/alt-ag/rabbit.htm

                             SHEEP
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Sheep resources
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library/sheep.html

Sheep Grazing Management - Virginia Cooperative Extension
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/sheep/410-366/410-366.html

Feeding Sheep - Virginia Cooperative Extension
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/sheep/410-853/410-853.html


                            Other Species Resources
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http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library/other.htm



     NUTS & FRUITS
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Extensive information from NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
http://www.icserv.com/nnga/links.htm

Ask The Berry Man, berries & brambles
http://www.asktheberryman.com/about_berries.html

Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home
http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/fruit/homefruit.html

Growing Fruit Trees
http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000585_Rep607.pdf