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This topic covers biodynamic the uniquely holistic approach to organic agriculture salient features of Biodynamic farming and how agriculture fits and works with the cosmos.
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Agro-ecology & Regenerative Agriculture $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic converges the two as frameworks of farming and food system transformation that integrate biodiversity and ecological processes in food production; reducing external inputs and introducing renewable or natural alternatives thus benefiting people and nature.
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Aloe Ferox, Bitter Aloe or Cape Aloe $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic covers plant description, propagation, and tree management, useful parts and harvesting, uses and utilization, and ethno-medicinal and pharmacological uses.
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Apiculture and the Products of the Hive Business $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic discusses the essentials of apiary site selection, understanding honey and honey bees, advantages of beekeeping as an income generation activity, different techniques to start a beekeeping business, local and global honey market outlook, various products of the hive, and estimating the potential profit per hive.
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Aquaponics the Integration of Aquaculture and Hydroponics $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic provides a brief history of aquaponics, the benefits of aquaponics, components of the aquaponics system, differences between aquaponics and hydroponics, aquaponics as a recycling system, types of produce grown in aquaponics and potential pitfalls with hydroponic and aquaponics farms.
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Balancing Air, Water and Media for Greenhouse Plants $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic underscores the importance of sufficient media air spaces, compaction, drainage and water holding capacity, container height, media water content, and overwatering problems.
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Becoming a Biodynamic Certified Farm $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic explains in detail the Biodynamic certification pathway and process from conversion, application, and practices of Biodynamic farming and produce processing standards to biodynamic produce labeling.
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Becoming a Certified Organic Producer $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic highlights the principles of organic agriculture, the organic certification process, key steps towards organic certification, understanding the USDA organic label, why you pay more for organic foods, and maintaining and enforcement of organic certification
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Beef Cattle Health Management $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic focuses on types of animal health challenges, common diseases and pests, digestive and respiratory diseases, reproductive diseases, immune systems, and vaccinations, the importance of biosecurity, and the importance of gut health in cattle.
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Beef Cattle Nutrition Management $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic helps the reader to understand the ruminant digestive system, ration formulation and feeding regime, feedstuffs and dry matter requirements, factors affecting nutrient requirements, nutrition for breeding herd, nutrition for stocker cattle, nutrition for finishing cattle as well as growth promotants and production enhancers.
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Beekeeping Equipment and Bee Handling Safety $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic covers the essential beekeeping equipment and protective clothing, handling bees, opening the hive and managing bee stings, lifting hives and heavy equipment, honey harvesting procedures, and the effect of smoke on bees.
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Bees the Friends of the Earth, Biodiversity People and Planet $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic describes the importance of bees as super pollinators in agriculture, timing and moving bee hives, importance of bees to the environment, bees for sustainable development, effects of human activities on bees, and the effect of pesticides on bees
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Biodynamic Agriculture for Healthy Ecosystems $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic illustrates the holistic expression of a farm’s unique potential the “farm individuality” that encompasses soil types and characteristics such as mineral content, organic matter, and the mix of sand, silt, and clay as well as forests and meadows, wetlands and cultivated ground, flowering trees and shrubs, domestic and wild animals, buildings and equipment, and human beings living and working on the land and sharing the same environment, the same ecosphere, and the same influences; cosmic, earthly, and human.
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Biodynamic Agriculture; Farming with the Sun, Moon, and Cosmos $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic demonstrates how biodynamics recognizes that soil itself is alive, and this vitality supports and affects the quality and health of the plants that we grow especially in sync with lunar rhythms to optimize times to conduct work on the farm and in the garden, based on the type of plant, the activity and working the soil in tune with all the influences of nature and the seasonal cycles.
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Biodynamic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic expounds on how the philosophical tenets of biodynamics especially those that emphasize energetic forces and astrological influences are harder to grasp, yet they are part and parcel of the biodynamic experience. The further delves into sustainable applications and components of biodynamic farming and postulates the future of Biodynamic farming and sustainability.
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Biodynamic, Regenerative Agriculture & Agroecology $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic demonstrates how biodynamics agriculture mirrors Agroecology especially on soil and ecosystem restoration, reliance on biological interactions and ecosystem services, integration of domestic plants and animals, efficient use of the photosynthetic potential of annual and perennial combinations as well as non-use of for any added hormones, avoidance synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and prohibits GMOs.
