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- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
You Are A Step Away From Learning How To Have A Successful Backyard Garden Comprised Of Healthy, Organic Fruits, Vegetables And Animals To Supply You With Fresh Farm Produce For Your Own Consumption Or For Sale! Are you looking for a way to turn your tiny spare land into a mini-farm and make money out of it? Have you been having a dream to stay amidst a natural homestead with refreshing crops and soothing animals and spend the rest of your days fully healthy, independent, unflustered and happy? Or are you trying to improve your farming methods to have better yields, generate more income and generally increase viability of your farming efforts? Whatever your goal is, you are at the right place. It is true; farming can be discouraging and frustrating, especially for someone with precise goals which are being unmet, or someone who loves farming with a passion but is not seeing progress in the practice or seeing positive results. If you're new to this, you might even feel more confused as you don't even know where to begin! As such, you might wonder: What am I doing wrong? What does it really take to be a successful farmer? Is it about the space? The nutrients? The seeds…? How can avoid common mistakes and sail through? What do I need to grow or rear to be successful? How do I deal with weeds, pests and diseases? How do I combine crop and animal farming in my garden? If you can relate, this 2 in 1 book will prove extremely helpful. It contains the steps any beginner should take to get started with mini-farming successfully, as well as the dos and don'ts for intermediates to boost their farming and achieve their goals effortlessly and effectively. Here's a bit of what it covers: The basics of mini farming, including what it is, how it works and why you should venture into mini farming How to maximize your space to have a viable, productive mini-farm How to choose the right plants for mini-farming The steps you need to take to build the mini-farm How to select the right tools and equipment for your mini-farm How to maintain your mini-farm How to raise the beds, handle soil composition and maintain your setup. How to optimize plant nutrients, have the right timing and sufficient yields How to set up an irrigation system, proportion and sizing of your crops How to select the seeds, and prepare seedlings in your home for the best start in mini-farming How you can control pests and diseases effectively How to work with seasons How to grow the trees and vines for fruits How to rare chicken for eggs and meat How to store your harvest to last longer What you need to do to sell your produce …And much more! As you'll soon see, starting and maintaining a successful mini-farm doesn't have to be complicated, even if you've tried everything to get there but failed. All you need to do is follow the simple guidelines as discussed in this book, and you'll get around all those hurdles and challenges that have been keeping you from achieving your dream. Scroll up and click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get started!
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Mini Farming for
Beginners
A Beginners Guide to Build your
Mini Farming
Charles Milne
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Introduction
Home food production is an important skill, that makes positive contributions to the family's physical and financial health. At the same time, it re-establishes our connection with the roots of our ancestors by reaffirming our connection to nature and natural laws, and provides a sense of ability by ensuring the supply of basic necessities (food), thus playing an important psychological and spiritual role effect. It is also important that, for a variety of reasons, the quality of food produced by households is superior to that provided by supermarkets. Commercial demand has driven many factors to reduce the nutritional value of commercial food. Since almost no food is produced during use, the fruit and vegetable varieties are selected according to the suitability of machine picking, long-distance transportation and refrigeration, so that they still look good when entering the supermarket.
This results in a uniform appearance, products with attractive appearance that look better than their taste, and nutritional value is much lower than similar products produced locally.
Spinach is a good example. With proper care and refrigeration, fresh spinach can deteriorate for three weeks or more. However, even at 39 degrees in the dark, it can only lose about half of the B vitamins in a week. Therefore, in a brightly lit refrigerator in a supermarket, the attractive baby spinach bags actually have fewer nutrients than their own spinach that turns white and
frozen on the day of harvest. The same situation applies to other fruits and vegetables.
Considering the time it takes for packaging, transportation and storage, home-grown products that are quickly canned, frozen or dehydrated after harvest will pack more nutritious food than so-called fresh products in supermarkets. Nutritional density is not the only factor promoting household food production.
Pesticide residues are another important consideration. The company's farms and orchards use a variety of pesticides to protect the quantity and appearance of their harvest. According to a 1999 report by the US Government ’s Consumer Alliance,
“Apples grown in the US usually contain four pesticides, and There are as many as 10 residues. The same report lists several common vegetables, including butternut squash and spinach, which often contain multiple pesticide residues, some as many as 14 residues. The report also cited data indicating widespread use of illegal pesticides and the continued existence of carcinogenic chemicals It was banned in today's corporate harvest decades ago. In addition, small home gardens are ideal for using organic or semi-organic materials and methods, which can significantly reduce or even eliminate the need for synthetic pesticides.
In any case, if the family gardener decides to use the over-the-counter pesticides that are usually available, the gardener personally ensures proper use and schedules to ensure that the
amount of residues in the food is far less than typical commercial planted products. Excellent taste is the main benefit of home-made food. The two main factors that affect taste are freshness and the variety actually planted. With the backyard garden, vine-treated tomatoes can be served within minutes of picking eggplants from the vines, while supermarket tomatoes are harvested when they are green and mature during transportation. For any kind of food store, it is impossible to exceed the freshness in the backyard garden.
In addition, due to the selection of vegetable varieties used in corporate agriculture (also known as "agricultural integrated enterprises"), because they have the advantages of transportation toughness, mature and easy mechanical harvesting, some of the most delicious varieties of fruits and vegetables are even It is not available in the United States.
Supermarkets because they are not very suitable for mechanical picking or scraping. On the contrary, family gardeners are free to choose thousands of common and / or heirloom varieties according to their personal preferences. Commercial growers do business.
Therefore, the US dollar is its value standard. Your health (even beyond their minds) is a secondary issue. Their main goal is Produce goods at the lowest cost, sell them at the highest price, and get the most profit. This process does not automatically bring evil, but it is obvious that you can invest a lot of energy to
ensure that the food is safe, delicious, and healthy, which is far more than a company on half a continent. Finally, the economy is an important reason for producing and preserving food at home. The mini-agricultural production method described in this book only produces fresh agricultural products, and only accounts for the percentage of the cost of purchasing similar food in supermarkets. This means that growing your own food can add valuable funds to your family ’s budget, while keeping your own food can guarantee healthy food during periods of barrenness.
It is conceivable that the use of intensive technology to transform from vegetable gardening to large-scale micro-agriculture can provide more than 80% of the food for households and reduce the cash requirement by thousands of dollars each year. I have met many people who have planted gardens but have since given up planting. Although the details are different, in all these cases, the former gardener has encountered unrealistic or unrealistic goals. Many people move to houses with small courtyards, so traditional gardens are not suitable. Some people are injured causing mobility problems.
Others encountered problems with harmful insects or other pests.
In the end, many people just gave up because gardening takes too much time and trouble compared to gardening. The lesson I learned is that people need to have reasonable prospects to
achieve their gardening goals, otherwise they wo n’t bother. The goal of the miniature farmer is similar to that of the family gardener, but more emphasis is placed on economy. The purpose of micro-farmers is to reduce the income needed by providing most of the household ’s food needs. This can enable parents to stay at home with their children, make it possible to go to school at home, improve living conditions under fixed income conditions, or act as a buffer against uncertain economic conditions.
In the following chapters, I intend to demonstrate how to achieve the goals of gardening and small farming. Although any obstacles may be encountered, how to come with more fun and less time, energy, money and equipment than you expected achieve. The methods used in this book are a combination of traditional methods, biodynamic methods, bio-intensive growth methods, French intensive methods, square feet methods, and other methods using elevated beds, which I call "intensive agriculture". It stands on the shoulders of many great, dedicated gardeners, thinkers, philosophers, and farmers, so I have no special praise for it, but it is synthesized based on my own experience, hoping to save the reader a lot of trial and try. error.
The contents of this book can be used at all levels. It can be used for efficient amateur gardening to improve nutrition and enjoyment, more devoted to gardening, and perfect mini farming. Therefore, my goal is to help readers start to develop
more economical, nutritious and safe food with minimal effort, and at the same time help readers reconnect with the natural and heritage cycle in a spirit-enhancing manner.
Chapter One
What is mini farming
Mini-farming ensures that whatever is farmed, raised and grown on the field is eaten by the farmers themselves. They live off the soil and have all the food they need for their own consumption.
In other words, they are fairly self-sufficient when it comes to what they eat. You can also also learn that sustainable farming and self-sufficient farming are used interchangeably because they are one and the same. The size of the land they own is generally, but not always relatively small, compared to the more economically driven farmers. You can also find such small farms referred to as mini-farms or micro-farms.
Commercial farming, on the other hand, is where crops are grown and cattle are raised for others to make some income. Not because farming is a profitable, well-to-do business, it is not, but by becoming a small farmer on one farm with the goal of making a well-known market, understanding what the existing prices are for their crops and livestock, and what the niche market can offer to them income, both now and in the future.
The principle of mini-farming The core theory of mini-farming-land management: First and foremost, as has already been stated, there is no need for a big piece of land to become self-sufficient. So how small is it? Okay, on one acre of land, one can potentially become self-sufficient very happily. One acre of land can be used for small-scale farming on mini-farms that are very happily self-sufficient.
However, since self-sufficiency can be exercised on mini-farms, land conservation is essential. It will then become the most critical concept for sustainable farming and the development of your mini farm.
The hint, of course, is, in the very word, sustainable meaning to keep things running. If the land you use to cultivate is not maintained correctly, you will never be able to maintain any crops or livestock at an reasonable degree of productivity. This covers both large-scale and small-scale farming.
Mismanagement is going to give you the same outcome. What you will end up with will be both alive and stable plants and livestock, and your aspirations for self-sufficiency will be unfulfilled.
In running a micro farm or a small farm, there needs to be a balance between the animals and the plants, because hopefully, you want to build a food chain where they feed each other. You need manure from farm animals to enrich the soil so that the
soil can then grow healthy crops and, in effect, go back to feed the livestock.
There is a need for crop rotation with small-scale farming on mini-farms for sustainability. It is difficult to cultivate crops on the same piece of land year after year. Crops dress like this and quickly succumb to illness. However, the issue does not end here, because what happens is that the disease agents that invade the plant grow to such an degree that the disease ultimately becomes uncontrollable. So prepare your small farm carefully, and make sure that every portion of the land is held bare so that you can execute your crop rotation programme.
Why you should take up mini farming
Most people no longer want to be part of a growing mob that demands more and more. And some, also want to see how they're capable of surviving without the need to hit a supermarket of anything readily accessible. Whereas other people are only living in their houses as a means to lead a healthy ecological life.
If you are mentioned in the above article, it might be time for you to start setting up your own mini farm. It may sound overwhelming, but you can do it right where you are! All you need is foresight, inspiration to learn new things, and a strategy!
I have a fantastic set of worksheets to support you with the preparation component, and they're available at the end of this post.
Save Money
The main reason people are turning to live off the land is because of income. Living paycheque to paycheque is no fun unless there's more than money left to spare. As the cost of living continues to rise, money is a problem for a lot of people.
Not to mention, it reflects heat, consumerism, and, to a degree, greed.
Through raising your own food in your own yard, you're avoiding the need to pay for grocery shopping every week. When making your own clothing, there's no need to scour the internet for the newest fashion trends from brands vying for your attention. The savings you would achieve from slowly being self-sufficient with your mini farm in tow will have a positive effect on your financial life.
Learn New Skills
As you learn to take responsibility and evolve individually and do what you need to live, you can, of course, develop a lot of new experience and skills. If you are planning a scheme to develop your own well and provide a water supply to your property with the aid of a water pressure booster system. Or to measure the acidity of the soil and determine when different seeds should be planted. Through living off the ground, you will build up a never-ending supply of wisdom that contributes to a great sense of fulfillment.
Learning new skills is a wonderful aim that can go a long way towards developing your own mini farm. My "Jump Start to Homestead Preparation" worksheets will help you get your plans out of your mind, into some paper, and into a doable plan. It's in my tool list, and at the end of this article you will get a password for it!
Stress Busting
You may be feeling that this term undermines the concept of making your own property. Yeah, some aspects of being self-sufficient can be difficult, but the ultimate drinking up of fresh oxygen every day, being in the midst of greenery and doing something you love, would cause your well-being to flourish.
Let's not say, actually going outside is confirmed by evidence that decreases blood pressure and boosts short-term memory.
Natural Foods
Pesticides and artificial fertilizers used by different producers and corporations to make food crops grow faster are another explanation why people choose to eat their own organic food.
We seem to be very oblivious to the fact that any piece of food we pick in the store has gone on a journey.
We prefer to drink food, whether good or wrong, with no understanding of whether it has been drenched in toxins or, in the case of animals, it has been handled and fed poorly during its lifespan. You're in charge of the trip with your own mini-
farm. From eggs to carrots, at least you know exactly how he's been looked after all his life and how you think he's safe enough to feed.
Simple tricks to maximize your space
Many of us look forward to the unmistakable taste of fresh, locally grown vegetables and fruit, particularly those coming from our own soil. Don't despair of those of you who would like to grow food at home but have limited space. Your vision of home-grown food is still within your grasp.
You might be curious how to grow vegetables if you have little to no room with full sun exposure, but certain vegetables can tolerate partial shade, and some may also be called 'shaded vegetables' because they won't tolerate full sun exposure.
You may live in an apartment with not much more than a balcony, but you love fresh veggies and would still like to grow your own-no problem 1.) Container planting If you have little outdoor space, be it a small yard, a shared courtyard or a balcony, a garden container with vegetables and fruit may be the perfect place for you.
One of the best things about container gardening is the potential to grow almost any vegetable and several varieties of fruit, provided the right conditions and enough space for an suitable container.
With the correct amount of sun exposure and watering method, it is also possible to raise small fruit trees or bushes successfully in this manner. In my day, I saw both lemon trees and blueberry bushes grow in overground planters-what a delicious way to fill your container garden with color!
Container gardens are also incredibly space-efficient, because any ounce of soil in your container will count for fruit and vegetable production-no growing area will be lost while you take care of and harvest your plants.
Container garden also has the additional advantage of being a perfect backsaver, or it can be adapted for those with limited mobility, making sure that growing fresh fruit and vegetables at home is available to everyone.
Another interesting thing about container gardening is the opportunity as a gardener to follow the heat, if appropriate,
because containers can be moved during the day. If you don't have time to push containers when life keeps on around you, there's no trouble planting the amount of sun you have.
Although it is true that many plants would need a minimum of 6
hours of direct sunshine a day, there are a variety of shade vegetables that can survive or grow in partial shade and dappled sunlight.
A few things to remember when gardening containers:
'Upcycling' will lead to some really fascinating containers-steel pasta strainers are perfect for kitchen herbs, recycled antique boxes add charm to your vegetative designs and even up-cycled plastic totes will make fantastic planters if you're more concerned about functionality than appearance. You're confined to your creativity and tastes. You'll want to remember to require drainage, so if appropriate, drill holes or otherwise puncture the bottom of your selected containers. We've also found a fantastic lightweight and durable fabric elevated planter that we've been able to bring to home here-and we're on our second season. It makes growing vegetables easy for both young and old!
Almost every plant can thrive in a container provided the container is big enough.
Straw bales themselves can be used as planting bins, even though they can be a little messy and break down fairly easily,
they are a viable choice. We've loved pumpkins and zucchini right off the top of the straw bales this season-and it couldn't be simpler (see how this is achieved here.) Make careful to have ample water and food while planting in containers, because soil in containers can dry quicker and nutrients continue to flow into them quicker than their in-ground counterparts.
Assess the exposure to the sun and grow accordingly.
Vertical planting: Well, vertical planting. There are so many options to grow upward-let's face it, most vegetables and fruit bearing plants grow upward-when adapting food production to a smaller location, try using a conventional trellis to a recycled pallet planter to a hanging hydroponic window garden. The opportunities for vertical planting are extensive and require just a certain amount of creativity-making usable space out of wasted space is the secret to optimum productivity in the small urban garden.
-- edibles adapt themselves to vertical gardening you may be wondering; well, I'm happy to say that the list is long. Here are only a couple to get you started: tomatoes: cherry tomatoes in particular (but most varieties do) are very happy to grow upward, provided the right amount of encouragement. Old nylons cut into strips are perfect for connecting the plants to
their upward systems because they are lightweight which can result in the least amount of tension on the plant where they are attached. Perhaps you're not wearing nylons, or your nylons are much too expensive to be used in your urban garden, don't worry, pick up some at the thrift shop, they're going to cost next to zero. Instead, cultivate at the top of the wall down to the cellar, and watch the branches flood with delicious cherry tomatoes as summer progresses.
Winter squash and melons: these plants emerge naturally in the direction of the sun. Again, they will require adequate care, particularly when they begin to bear fruit, but they respond well to being trained to where you have a room.
Peas and pole beans would happily grow something large enough to help them Cucumbers this favorite afternoon tea, spa or spritzer ingredient on the cooler days of summer is fairly easy to grow in the smallest of spaces.
Asian vegetables, salad greens, strawberries and kitchen herbs will all flourish happily in nothing more than a recycled pallet on its side. Instructions for this can be found here.
Greens, strawberries or kitchen herbs can also grow happily in parts of rain gutter that can either be hanged or placed on the side of almost every south facing structure or in a network of hanging bottles in the south facing window as seen here.
Hanging rain gutter greenhouse directions are available here.
Potatoes, guy. Yup, even potatoes can expand vertically if they have the right container to do so. Imagine that you're using a sterile garbage can with all sorts of holes cut in the rim. Throw down a few inches of soil and compost, add the cut and cured bits of seed potatoes and cover with 6 more inches of earth.
Wind. Wind. When the aerial portions of the plant have reached around 6-8 inches, apply more soil leaving just a few inches of green exposed soil. This cycle can be repeated a few times during the season. Once the plants turn brown and die, it's time to reap. The potatoes on the top would be smaller and more delicate than those on the bottom, just like the gourmet "fresh"
potatoes sold at the supermarket at a premium price. I've read of vertical potatoes growing in a straw-filled container (rather than soil) that makes harvesting easier, and I'm hoping to try it this year. Stop Press: This worked well for us, so it seems that the potatoes are growing better, leading to a heavier harvest. I kept covering the straw with the gradually disintegrating straw bales in which our pumpkin and zuccini rise.
Try hanging planters: Strawberries will flourish in hanging containers, and even tomatoes will happily rise upside down from the bottom of a hanging bucket. Our field covering strawberries do nothing more than make fat, happy chipmunks, hanging them means you might eat any of them, too.
3.) Raised beds and square foot gardens: if your planting area is wide enough for raised beds, it can be a perfect way to optimize room and energy. Not only do raised beds support more plants per square foot, but planting in a raised bed also decreases the need for weeds. It also makes weeds much harder to dig out throughout the season, and can be a great relief to the back, and if the beds are well laid apart, then the wheelchair planting is a nice possibility in small spaces. Garden care has never been simpler.
Here are only a couple of the benefits of growing food in a raised bed in a small garden: a long growing season. A raised bed is going to warm up better than the field in the morning, and in the fall the bed will quickly be tempted to prolong the growing season by a couple weeks or so-this will yield in a smaller garden.
Place, place, place: grow food at the place of your choosing, regardless of soil conditions, while you apply your own.
Raised beds provide excellent drainage under all soil conditions, no matter where your garden is situated.
Soil compaction is no longer an problem, so managing and preserving soil and weeding would be much easier for smaller areas.
Each square inch of soil in your limited room must be expended on food growth, as none will be lost underfoot.
Depending about how high you want to create the raised beds in your small garden, you could totally eradicate the need to bend over. In the worst scenario, even though the raised beds are just a foot and a half high, you're not going to stretch too much.
Ideally, the raised bed is 18-24 inches tall, so if you create the raised beds on the top of the actual soil, you'll have some leeway here. I have been successfully gardening in boxes installed over the earth with just one foot of soil coverage.
Keyhole gardens Keyhole gardens are built to optimize space by reducing the need for walkways as seen in conventional row gardening or with raised beds. The architecture is also intended to be draught-resistant and to provide nutrients by compost during the growing season.
Keyhole gardens are a raised style bed that takes the rough form of a circle with a "keyhole" shaped path that provides access to the whole garden. There is a vertical tunnel in the middle of the pipe, which contains several layers of compost. When manure melts down, it provides nutrients and moisture to the surface.
Certainly an effective way to expand, keyhole gardens can be designed with several different materials as a fast Google search for the word can prove. If you have a circular area of about 8-10
feet in diameter, you can use any suitable material that can be easily reached by corrugated siding, cedar poles, landscaping blocks, bricks or some combination thereof.
5.) Eatable nature, woodland gardens and permascaping The practice of edible permascaping includes planting seasonal food in places where ornamentals will typically take up space. In reality, many common ornamentals are edible, so transforming your landscape into a food-bearing paradise is simpler than it may seem.
When you look at your entire property as a possible land on which to grow crops, the ability to increase the yield increases accordingly. Lawns, for example, may quickly be turned into garden plots, flowering annual gardens can also contain plants that are both spectacular and nutritious, and even forested areas on your land may grow food (and in some situations may even have something wild worth harvesting).
Public gardens No south-facing window, deck or yard? Get a community garden, it's a perfect place to cultivate food while improving ties with neighbors. If there's no community garden in your neighborhood yet, might there be a vacant lot to launch one?
One thing is for sure, learning how to grow vegetables with those in your neighborhood and sharing ideas and tools would do more than just put food on the table. Collective planting, or even
even sharing planting, can help create and improve connections within your community.
A community garden is also a perfect way to give children access to food processing that they would not otherwise receive. In the future, we will face many problems in the area of natural resources and food production, and the ability to produce food in one way or another is a capability that will be very useful to future generations.
Chapter Two
Best plants for mini farming
Lavender
Lavender can be found in just about everything, from food flavorings to drugs to fragrances. The essential oil is also among the most popular in a flourishing wellness environment.
Bamboo
Bamboo is primarily sold as a potted plant or landscaping plant.
What makes it especially competitive is its potential to expand very rapidly. Without a ton of space, you can generate a lot of stuff.
Basil
Basil is a common herb used in loads of dishes. You can cultivate it quickly indoors or in a small container greenhouse. If you're going to grow it outdoors, it should flourish in dry, humid conditions. You would then supply it to food suppliers, retail shops or directly to customers on farmers' markets.
Cilantro
Cilantro is another common herb that doesn't take a lot of space to produce. In addition to its distinctive taste, it can also be used as a digestion aid, and it is popular with pharmaceutical companies that produce supplements.
Chives
Chives may be cultivated indoors or outdoors. And unlike many other herbs, they're pretty healthy. But you can grow them in nearly any environment in the U.S.
Ginseng
Ginseng is a very common grow in the health and wellness industry. It is used in a number of medications, vitamins and teas. It takes a while to get going. But once your crops have yielded, you should predict big revenues from strong global demand.
Gourmet Garlic
Garlic can be used in just about every sort of sauce. Yet standard garlic is very abundant and does not have a very high quality.
However, there are a few animals that are considered "gourmet"
because they are a little more rare. When you're able to spend in these early days, they will potentially pay off over time.
Arugula
Arugula is a type of leafy green that gives a zippy flavor to salads or side dishes. It's really popular with trendy farm-to-table restaurants. Yet you might also sell it to safe customers on farmers' markets.
Corn
Corn has long been one of the most popular crops in the world, especially in the Midwest. It takes a decent amount of space. So it can be used for anything from feed to fuel.
Soybeans
Soybeans are very similar to corn in a variety of respects. They grow under common conditions and can be used in milk, feed and a number of other items.
