* [[Organic gardening]]
* [[List of organic gardening and farming topics]]
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...tools and methods, somewhat to the exclusion of the methods of large-scale organic operations (which are nonetheless increasingly common).
*[[Birds in the organic garden]]
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...ing activity today is the work of [[amateur]] gardeners, [[organic farming|organic farmers]], and enthusiasts with [[environmentalism|environmentalist]] inter
...mass-marketed hybrid seed varieties, in both home gardening and commercial farming, is said to be eliminating many open-pollinated varieties, especially the l
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...ornamental plants by following the essential principles [[Organic farming|organic agriculture]] in soil building and conservation, pest management, and herit
...ontrol methods available to organic farmers are also sometimes utilized by organic horticulturists.
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'''No-dig gardening''' is an approach to [[cultivation]] favored by many [[organic gardener]]s. No-dig gardening was developed by Australian [[Esther Deans]]
...rrowing to keep the dynamic relationship between surface and depth. Adding organic matter and weather protection can entice them to the surface: this is what
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often offer [[List of organic gardening and farming topics|organic]] and open
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...l intercropping systems, especially in the complex and elegant subsistence farming systems of the dry savannas in sub-Saharan Africa (Blade, 2005).
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== Local food is often equated with organic food ==
...nditions. This limited interpretation is likely due to the fact that the [[organic movement]] is largely responsible for renewed public interest in local and
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...[[agriculture]]. Manures contribute to the fertility of the soil by adding organic matter and [[Nutrient#Nutrients and the environment|nutrients]], such as [[
...is distinguished from manure in that it is the ''decomposed'' remnants of organic materials (which may, nevertheless, include manure).
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==Gardening compared to farming==
...is distinguished from [[Agriculture|farming]] chiefly by scale and intent. Farming occurs on a larger scale, and with the production of saleable goods as a ma
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...pain, headaches, nausea and fatigue. Most herbicides (primarily the non-organic) must be extensively tested prior to labeling by the Environmental Protecti
* '''Synthetic auxin''' inaugurated the era of organic herbicides. They were discovered in the 1940s after a long study of the pla
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[[Image:Duengung.jpg|thumb|Spreading [[manure]], an organic fertilizer]]
...rough leaves. Fertilizers can be [[organic compound|organic]] (composed of organic matter, i.e. carbon based), or [[inorganic]] (containing simple, inorganic
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Urban farming is practiced for [[income]]-earning or [[food]]-producing activities. It co
...movement report they prefer the taste of local agricultural products, or [[organic food]], to that of industrial food production. Also, urban agriculture supp
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While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated "agroecosystems" generally differ fro
...ecosystems are generally defined as novel ecosystems that produce food via farming under human guidance.
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'''Agriculture''' (a term which encompasses '''farming''' and '''[[ranching]]''') is the process of producing [[food]], [[fodder|f
...cial [[intensive agriculture]], including [[industrial agriculture]]. Such farming involves large fields and/or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pes
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...n the soil or used as bedding. On some [[ecological]] or [[Organic farming|organic]] operations, livestock such as [[sheep]] or [[cattle]] are allowed to graz
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...awpaw has attracted renewed interest, particularly among [[organic farming|organic growers]], as a native fruit which has few pests, and which therefore requi
...atural insecticides known as [[acetogenin]]s, which can be used to make an organic pesticide{{Fact|date=February 2007}}. Acetogenins from pawpaw have also bee
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...rown by bread wheat. As spelt requires less [[fertilizer]]s, the [[organic farming]] movement made it more popular again towards the end of the century.
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...[sustainable]] ways of living by integrating [[ecology]], [[landscape]], [[organic gardening]], [[architecture]], [[agroforestry]], [[green economics|green]]
Some projects are critical of the use of animals (see [[vegan organic gardening]]). However not all permaculture sites farm the animals. The ani
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...author=Lotter, D. W., Seidel, R. & Liebhardt W. | title=The performance of organic and conventional cropping systems in an extreme climate year | journal=Amer
<ref>Cordes DH, Rea DF. 1988. Health hazards of farming. American Family Physician 38:233–243 </ref>
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