Series:

Organic Principles and Practices Handbook

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Cover of Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops

Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:

  • Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)

  • Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)

  • Farm design for pest reduction (diversity, crop rotation)

  • Unorthodox approaches (farmers out of the box)

  • Identifying pests

  • Crop-by-crop pests and practices