Resources Tagged: Compost

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  1. Fertility Ditches with Elephant Grass and/or Bananas

    2025-04-01 Network members Mike Martin and Brian Moser share farmer systems of using ditches to generate compost in the field to either retain for in-field soil health management or take and use elsewhere on-farm.
    Compost Composting

  2. La Fabrication et l'utilisation du Compost

    2001-01-01 Cette brochure a été compilée pour donner des informations sur la façon dont le compost peut être appliqué dans les régions tropicales et subtropicales. Il donne une description simple des processus qui se déroulent dans le sol et lors du compostage. Des suggestions pratiques sont données pour la...
    Compost

  3. Fabrication et utilisation du compost Making and Using Compost

    2002-01-01 Cet Agrodok a été écrit pour des agents qui travaillent aveec des petits paysans dans les pays en voie de développement et pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent au compostage et engrais organiques. Agrodok #8 Cette brochure a été compilée pour donner des informations sur la façon dont le compost peut...
    Compost

  4. Agrodok 008, Preparation and Use of Compost

    1980-01-01 This booklet has been compiled to give information about how compost can be applied in the tropics and subtropics. It gives a simple description of the processes taking place in the soil and during composting. Practical suggestions are given for constructing a compost heap. A few selected compost...
    Compost Agrodok Compost Use

  5. Chicken Compost System

    2022-07-01 This chicken compost system is adapted from the system taught by Geoff Lawton, permaculture consultant, designer, author, and teacher. Jordan was taught this system by Geoff Lawton in one of his Permaculture Design Courses and then brought it and adapted it to the context of the ECHO Global Farm...
    Composting Chicken Manure Compost Soil Fertility

  6. Understanding Roots Discover How to Make You Garden Flourish

    Understanding Rootsuncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground―the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet. Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude wondrous elixirs to...
    Root Systems Root Growth Roots Fertilization Compost

  7. CTA Practical Guide Series

    2007-01-01 This Series contains 14fold-out leaflets,practical for use in the field and easy to read. Covering multiple subjects, it gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line drawings. 1. Rearing Dairy Goats 2. How To Control Striga And Stemborer...
    dairy goats Striga Rainwater Harvesting Chickens Sweet Potato Products Cassava flour Compost Canning and Preser... Fish Farming Tree Nursery Banana Flour Cookery-Tomatoes Beekeeping Mango Fruit Fly

  8. Enriched Compost For Higher Yields

    2007-01-01 This 8-page fold-out leaflet, practical for use in the field and easy to read, covers the subject of making enriched compost. It gives some background information, outlines the processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line drawings.
    Compost

  9. Coir Pith - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Coir pith degrades so slowly that it is often considered useless for agriculture. But well-decomposed coir pith can absorb five times its weight in water. So when applied to your soil, it can hold water much better. To prepare compost out of coir pith you need to...
    AccessAgriculture Compost Coconut Coir Microbial Soil Fertility

  10. Composting to beat striga - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Compost is more powerful than manure. What is less known is that the micro-organisms in compost attack striga seeds in the soil. Compost also decreases the amount of striga that will sprout, and reduces its negative effect on cereal crops. Let us look at how...
    Weed Control Weeds Striga Compost Soil Fertility Sustainable Land M... AccessAgriculture