List of organic gardening and farming topics
This list provides an overview of topics related to organic farming and gardening. The focus is broadly inclusive. Many topics are not exclusively within the domain of organic growing, but apply to all types of agriculture and gardening. Others, such as the list of animals, insects, and microorganisms under "Soil life", are not gardening topics at all, but do directly concern the basic principles of organic culture. There are some exceptions to the inclusiveness. In "Tools" and "Techniques", where farming is concerned, the emphasis is on smaller-scale organic production tools and methods, somewhat to the exclusion of the methods of large-scale organic operations (which are nonetheless increasingly common).
Soil
- Megafauna: size range 20 mm upwards, e.g.,
- Macrofauna: size range 2-20 mm, e.g.,
- Mesofauna: size range 100 micrometre-2 mm, e.g.,
- Microfauna and Microflora: size range 1-100 micrometres, e.g.,
Soil fertility
- Composting methods and systems
- Container composting
- Windrow composting
- German mound
- Leaf mold
- High fibre composting
- Worm compost
- Spent mushroom compost
- Sheet composting
- "Humanure" (composting human waste)
Techniques
- Aquaponics
- No dig gardening
- Companion planting
- Succession planting
- Multiple cropping
- Intercropping
- Crop rotation
- Weed control techniques (see also 'weeds' below)
- Xeriscaping (water wise gardening)
Tools
Cultivation
Pruning and tree care;
Propagation
- Growing from seed;
Wildlife in the garden
Crops
Organic farming and gardening systems and approaches
- Allotments
- Aquaponics, Organic system of growing fish and plants.
- Biodynamic farming
- Biodynamic gardening
- Forest gardening
- History of organic farming
- Organic farming
- Organic farming methods
- Permaculture
- Square foot gardening
- Synergistic gardening
- Vegan organic gardening and Veganic gardening
- Wildlife gardening
The ornamental organic garden
Pests and diseases
- Integrated pest management
- Biological pest control
- Physiological plant disorders (ie,plant disorders caused by environmental factors, such as weather conditions,
nutrient deficiencies, etc)
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Plant pathology (ie, plant diseases caused by fungi, viruses, bacteria, etc)
Weeds
(see also 'weed control techniques' above)
Organic Organizations
- OCIA, International Organic Crop Improvement Association
- Good Gardeners Association (UK)
- Henry Doubleday Research Association (main organisation promoting organic gardening in the UK)
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
- Permaculture Association (Britain)
- Rodale Institute Rodale Institute
- Soil Association (UK)
- Certified Naturally Grown
- Vegan Organic Network
- World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association For North and South Carolina, of the US, the leading organic farming advocacy and certification institution.
Some important figures in organic farming and gardening
- Lady Eve Balfour
- Marc Bonfils
- Peter Caddy
- Eliot Coleman
- Dr Shewell Cooper
- Carol Deppe
- Bob Flowerdew
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- Alan Gear
- Geoff Hamilton
- Robert Hart
- Emilia Hazelip
- Lawrence D Hills
- Sir Albert Howard
- John Jeavons
- Joy Larkcom
- Bill Mollison
- J.I. Rodale
- Dan Jason
See also
- Aquaponics
- Botany
- Community-supported agriculture
- Farmers' markets
- Local food
- Organic certification
- Organic food
- Organic movement
- Terra preta
- Wildcrafting
