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This list provides an overview of topics related to organic farming and gardening. The focus is broadly inclusive. Many topics are not exclusively within the domain of organic growing, but apply to all types of agriculture and gardening. Others, such as the list of animals, insects, and microorganisms under "Soil life", are not gardening topics at all, but do directly concern the basic principles of organic culture. There are some exceptions to the inclusiveness. In "Tools" and "Techniques", where farming is concerned, the emphasis is on smaller-scale organic production tools and methods, somewhat to the exclusion of the methods of large-scale organic operations (which are nonetheless increasingly common).
Soil
- Megafauna: size range 20 mm upwards, e.g.,
- Moles
- Rabbits
- Rodents
- Macrofauna: size range 2-20 mm, e.g.,
- Woodlice
- Spiders
- Beetles
- Centipedes
- Slugs
- Snails
- Ants
- Harvestmen
- Mesofauna: size range 100 micrometre-2 mm, e.g.,
- Mites
- Springtails.
- Microfauna and Microflora: size range 1-100 micrometres, e.g.,
Soil fertility
Techniques
- Aquaponics
- No dig gardening
- Companion planting
- Succession planting
- Multiple cropping
- Intercropping
- Crop rotation
- Weed control techniques (see also 'weeds' below)
- Stale seed bed
- Xeriscaping (water wise gardening)
- Stale seed bed
Tools
Cultivation Lawncare Pruning and tree care;
Propagation
- Growing from seed;
Wildlife in the garden
Crops
- How to cultivate barley
- How to cultivate beans
- How to cultivate vetch (a. k. a. tare)
- How to cultivate potatoes
- How to cultivate turnips
- List of companion plants
- Fruit
Organic farming and gardening systems and approaches
- Allotments
- Aquaponics, Organic system of growing fish and plants.
- Biodynamic farming
- Biodynamic gardening
- Forest gardening
- History of organic farming
- Organic farming
- Organic farming methods
- Permaculture
- Square foot gardening
- Synergistic gardening
- Vegan organic gardening and Veganic gardening
- Wildlife gardening
The ornamental organic garden
Pests and diseases
- 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
- Calcium deficiency
- Iron deficiency
- Magnesium deficiency
- Manganese deficiency
- Nitrogen deficiency
- Phosphorus deficiency
- Potassium deficiency
- Plant pathology (ie, plant diseases caused by fungi, viruses, bacteria, etc)
Weeds
(see also 'weed control techniques' above)
Organic organisations
- OCIA, International Organic Crop Improvement Association
- Good Gardeners Association (UK)
- Henry Doubleday Research Association (main organisation promoting organic gardening in the UK)
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
- Permaculture Association (Britain)
- Rodale Institute Rodale Institute
- Soil Association (UK)
- Vegan Organic Network
- World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
Some important figures in organic farming and gardening
- 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
- J.I. Rodale
See also
- Aquaponics
- Botany
- Community-supported agriculture
- Farmers' markets
- Local food
- Organic certification
- Organic food
- Organic movement
- Wildcrafting
Related lists
- urban economics
- list of environment topics
- list of ethics topics
- list of food topics
- List of sustainable agriculture topics
- List of ecology topics
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