This guidebook provides detailed information for growers on production issues, plant nutrition, economics, pest and weed control, management of olive wastes, the conversion process, and organic certification and registration. Using this manual you'll learn about orchard site selection considerations, irrigation needs, terrain, temperature, soil, damage from the olive fruit fly, and how these may vary for table fruit versus fruit for oil production. You'll also learn how to evaluate harvest methods-an important consideration, as harvest costs typically amount to half the total production cost for olives.

Organic Olive Production Manual

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Vossen, Paul

Gardening & Landscape Design

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Explore the benefits of the biodiversity and the beauty of songbirds, bats, and owls with this handy guide. You'll learn about "win-win" ideas and methods for integrating nest boxes with vineyard management, biology and habitat requirements, details on construction and maintenance, literature sources, and online resources where you can get more information. While written with grape growers and vineyard managers in mind, anyone interested in learning about nest boxes will find this guide useful. Includes patterns for building your own boxes and advice on where to place your boxes for best results.

Songbird, Bat, and Owl Boxes

Heaton, Emily

The Organic Vegetable Production Manual provides detailed information for growers on how to farm vegetables organically, addressing the essential topics for success in this highly competitive marketplace. This book is a valuable resource for established organic growers, and a must-read for growers considering organic practices. Chapters cover a range of topics for the organic vegetable farmer: Business and marketing plans Economic performance Soil fertility management Managing diseases Weed management Postharvest handling Organic certification and registration in California New for 2011, this publication includes substantially revised information from a seven-part series of shorter publications from 2000. The revisions address changing needs of organic growers and access to new information. This book was written by a team of UC specialists and farm advisors who work closely with growers throughout California's diverse agricultural regions. This 86-page

Organic Vegetable Production Manual

Engineering & Transportation

McGiffen Jr, Milton E.

Engineering

This full-color guide provides information on practices and considerations for organic and conventional growers alike. Includes information on organic soil management, the roles of compost and cover crops, and a calendar of recommended practices for year-round soil fertility management. Illustrated with 18 tables and 89 figures and photos, including close-up color photographs of important natural enemies and disease symptoms.

Organic Winegrowing Manual

McGourty, Glenn T.

These pocket-sized laminated cards can be easily carried with you for handy references to insect and mite pests as well as important diseases in landscape plants. These 43 cards cover 19 common insects and mites, 7 diseases, 4 natural enemies, and a variety of other disorders and invertebrate pests.

Landscape Pest Identification Cards

History

Strand, Larry L.

Americas

This best-selling guide has been revised to include an expanded section on establishment, irrigation, pruning, and soil and nutritional requirements. Also new is a discussion of the mossy rose gall and an expanded reference section. Healthy Roses adapts Integrated Pest Management practices to the home garden―methods of controlling pests and diseases using beneficial insects, traps and barriers, and less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials. The book also covers careful selection of varieties, site selection and planting, proper watering, how and when to prune, and weed management.

Healthy Roses: Environmentally Friendly Ways to Manage Pests and Disorders in Your Garden and Landscape

Karlik, John

Using this book you'll learn how to effectively manage and protect oaks in urban areas existing oaks as well as the planting of new oaks. Three key areas are addressed: selection, care, and preservation. You'll learn how cultural practices, pest management, risk management, preservation during development, and genetic diversity can all play a role in preserving urban oaks. Arborists, urban foresters, landscape architects, planners and designers, golf course superintendents, academics, and Master Gardeners alike will find this to be an invaluable reference guide.

Oaks in the Urban Landscape: Selection, Care and Preservation

Science & Math

Costello, Laurence

Biological Sciences

Navigating the start-up of any business is hard work, but cheesemaking has its own special challenges. This manual walks you, as a beginning cheesemaker, through the steps necessary to decide if cheesemaking as a business is right for you.

Farmstead and Artisan Cheeses: A Guide to Building a Business

Reed, Barbara

Business & Money

Drawing upon the knowledge of 32 experts from the University of California, no other publication covers topics, issues, and facets of California's small-scale agriculture with this depth or level of expertise. Throughout you'll get a look at emerging trends and issues for California agriculture, marketing and product sales, and innovative methods for better production and management. Also included are profiles of six small farm operators representing a sample of California's diverse agriculture. From the basics to risk management, specialty crops to marketing and product sales, this guide covers it all.

Small Farm Handbook: Second Edition

Arts & Photography

Tourte, Laura

Individual Artists

Agritourism has emerged as a viable financial option for many farms and ranches. This new edition builds on the concepts of the first, and adds updated information on regulations, risk management, and new marketing trends.

Agritourism and Nature Tourism in California: Second Edition

Travel

George, Holly

United States

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