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"With recipes for fermented plant juice, nutrient-rich extracts, and IMO using weeds, leaf mold, shells, bones, rock dust, and more Revitalize your garden by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost from local woodlands, fields, restaurants, and markets. Gardener and author Nigel Palmer provides practical, detailed instructions that will be accessible and exciting to every grower who wants to achieve a truly sustainable garden ecosystem, while enjoying better results at a fraction of the cost of commercial fertilizer products. These recipes go beyond fertilizer replacement, resulting in greater soil biological activity and mineral availability while increasing pest and disease resistance, yields, and nutrient density. Recipes range from the very simple-such as using rainwater to extract nutrients from plant residues and using vinegar to extract minerals from bones and shells-to more complex and creative processes for fermenting plant juices and fish and culturing indigenous microorganisms (IMO) to create amendments that supply a broad spectrum of minerals and complex organic compounds. This compact collection of recipes and instructions is inspired by the work of many innovative agricultural pioneers, especially Cho Ju-Young (founder of the Korean Natural Farming method). Palmer supplies extensive data from mineral analysis of amendments he has made using materials from his own garden; this type of detailed data is not available in any other source. The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments also includes a primer on plant-soil interaction, instructions for conducting a soil test and measuring the quality of fruits and vegetables using a refractometer, and guidance on compost, cover cropping, mulching, and other aspects of sustainable gardening"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Praise for The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: From Gardening for Fun to Gardening for Health
• Real Food Matters
• How to Use This Book
• Part I: Nourishment from the Ground Up
• Chapter 1: A New Garden Model
• The Soil/Plant Model
• Putting the Models Together
• Reaping the Harvest
• Chapter 2: Methods and Strategies
• Mineral Amendment Sources
• Biological Amendment Sources
• Amendment Strategies

• Starting a New Garden Plot
• Amending at Planting Time
• Amending Perennial Crops
• Amendment Strategies Throughout the Growth Cycle
• Summing Up
• Chapter 3: Sustainable, Regenerative Garden Tools
• Good Water
• Foliar Sprays and Drenches
• Compost
• Cover Crops
• Mulches
• Weeds
• Crushing Tool
• Chapter 4: Data and Measurements
• Using a Refractometer
• Conducting a Soil Test
• Amendment Analysis Results
• Garden Math
• A Garden Notebook
• Part II: Making Mineral and Biological Amendments
• Chapter 5: Raw Materials
• Weeds and Crop Plants
• Local Rocks and Soils
• Ocean Products
• Raw Milk
• Chapter 6: Amendment Recipes
• Water Extractions
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Vinegar Extractions
• Fermented Plant Juice
• Fermented Fish
• Leaf Mold Fermentation
• Leaf Mold Biology
• Lactic Acid Bacteria
• IMO #1: Capturing Local Microorganisms
• IMO #2: Fermenting Local Microorganisms
• IMO #3: Propagating Local Microorganisms
• IMO #4: Living Soil Amendment
• Appendix A: Summary of Amendment Recipes
• Appendix B: Optimal Soil Mineral Amounts
• Appendix C: A Sample of Dr. James Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database
• Appendix D: Plant Mineral Deficiency Indicators
• Appendix E: Amendment Mineral Analysis
• Appendix F: Refractive Index Brix Scale
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• About the Author

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Author/Creator:

Palmer, Nigel, 1958- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The regenerative grower's guide to garden amendments: using locally sourced materials to make mineral and biological extracts and ferments [by Palmer, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Regenerative grower's guide to garden amendments [by Palmer, N.] (White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2020] — ISBN 9781603589888; LCCN 2020019760; OCLC Number 1153005851)

Subjects:

Gardening — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Plants — Nutrition — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Soil amendments — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Gardening

Plants — Nutrition

Plants

Soil amendments

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

SB450.96 .P35 2020eb

ISBNs:

1603589899 (electronic bk.)
9781603589895 (electronic bk.)
9781603589888 (paperback) [Invalid]
1603589880 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1178651178