Outline of organic gardening and farming
This page is a list of topics that are relevant to both Organic gardening and Organic farming.
This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on gardening and farming_topics Related Changes in the sidebar and on the bottom of the page.
- 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
- 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;
- Growing from seed;
The ornamental organic garden
- List of flowers
- Flower album (illustrations of many ornamental flowers)
- Organic lawn management
- 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 organisations
- Henry Doubleday Research Association (main organisation promoting organic gardening in the UK)
- Rodale Institute Rodale Institute
- Soil Association (UK)
- Permaculture Association (Britain)
- Good Gardeners Association (UK)
- Vegan Organic Network
- World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
==Some important figures in the organic gardening movement== (please add names in alphabetical order)
- 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
- Joy Larcom
- Bill Mollison
Related topics
- Allotments
- Biodynamic farming
- Biodynamic gardening
- Botany
- Community-supported agriculture
- Forest gardening
- Local food
- Permaculture
- Organic certification
- Organic farming
- Organic food
- Organic movement
- Synergistic gardening
- Vegan organic horticulture and agriculture
- Wildlife gardening