Natural Farming

A Practical Guide
Pat Coleby

Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message: healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilizers over decades, and explains soil chemistry in terms that every farmer can understand. It describes the exact role of each mineral and vitamin, both in the soil and in the body. And it explains how to prevent expensive disease outbreaks and minimize the use of costly artificial sprays and fertilizers.

The prescriptions are simple and can be applied to any farming enterprise—market gardens, orchards, large-scale crops, and pasture—to restore the natural balance and fertility of the land, improve soil health, and increase productivity. The book is enlivened with accounts of spectacular successes in regenerating degraded land and curing animals that, in many cases, had been given up for dead.

Natural Farming is an essential handbook for any farmer, with detailed information on:

understanding a soil analysis
establishment and management of pasture
treatment of compacted soil and erosion
alternatives to artificial fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides
the significance of weeds
strategies for drought
diagnosis of diseases and deficiencies in stock
remedies for common diseases, including Johne's disease and immune-system disorders
rearing orphan animals.

Natural Farming equips the farmer to get the best from the land using environmentally sustainable methods that save time, expense, and worry—and to supply the rising global demand for pure food.

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Format:Paperback

Size: 8.5in × 5.3in

Extent:272pp

ISBN (13):9781964992068

RRP:$20.00

Pub date:3 Mar 2025

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Pat Coleby

Pat Coleby was one of the pioneers of natural farming in Australia. She died at the age of eighty-seven after a lifelong love of looking after the wellbeing of farm animals. She was passionate to share her discoveries and left a living legacy in the form of books. This, her most comprehensive work, draws on her fifty years of experience and her broad studies to explain the basis of farming without chemicals.

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