Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops: Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)

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