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Experienced people say:
All we need to do a good job are:
Transportation
Can use pedal-powered vehicles: bicycles, tricycles, 4 wheelers (1-4 passengers,
pickup). They have low investment and low operational costs. Youth and those on a
low budget will find this works.
Bicycles: Transportation from home to farm, pull trailers, etc.
4 wheeled vehicles: One or more people from home to farm, pickup, tour vehicles. Pull
trailers.
Trailers: Carry produce to market and recyclable waste to farm. Display small animals.
Equipments:
Use only hand tools: digging fork (flat tines-sandy soil; square tines-clay soil), hoe,
shovel, etc. Little power equipment is necessary. With more acreage, a spader will dig
the raised beds pulled behind a 14 hp or larger tractor. Axles can be altered to run the
wheels in the permanent tracks between beds up to 8' wide.
Small-scale equipment hand powered, pedal-powered, electric powered.
bicycle trailer
bicycle
tricycle
quadracycle
Interchangeable units for the following:
cotton gin
weaving loom
reel mower
sicklebar mower
trailer, tricycle, 4 wheeler:
chain trencher
rototiller
bulldozer
crawler tractor
cargo, flatbed, tanker, stake-bed, dumpbed, pickup, weeding/harvester rider grain
reaper
dumptrike
wildflower seed harvester
frontend loader
oil seed press
grain drill
quadra-pickup
animal & garden tools
peanut sheller
forklift
tractor (raised beds)
garden tool trailer
thresher
rice separater
rice polisher
grain winnower
weeder (paddy)
Soy grinder
scythes
peanut sheller
water pump
corn sheller
millet thresher
nut harvester
Techniques:
Fertilizers: seaweed, sludge, bone meal, blood meal, cottonseed meal, soybean meal,
transplants, manure, sulfur, fish meal, rock powder, lime, gypsum, compost, guano,
worm castings, Sul-Po-Mag, alfalfa meal, limestone, rock phosphate, oyster shell lime
Fungicides: cornmeal, baking soda
Natural Insecticides: neem, pyrethrum, citrus rind, flour.
Natural Herbicides: corn gluten meal, ants, field mice [eat seeds]
Beneficial insects: (insecticides) bats, snakes, bees, lizards, birds, wasps, frogs,
ladybugs, lacewings, flies, bumblebees, butterflies, toads, milky spore, beneficial
nematodes, Bt, praying mantis, barn owls.
Compost: hulls, bagasse, coffee, food waste, newspapers, sawdust, grass, leaves,
tree trimmings, gin trash, cotton burs, manure, sludge Vermicomposting.
Foliar sprays: seaweed, manure tea, fish emulsion, compost tea, molasses
Natural Pesticides: garlic, oil, Neem, peppers, molasses, peppermint, citrus oil, soap,
citronella, baking soda, diatomaceous earth, vinegar, tobacco
Irrigation: DIY drip, soaker hose, pitcher
Season extension: crop rotation, companion planting, shade cloth, trellis, row covers,
cages, intercropping, no-till, Wall O'Water
Mulches: compost, hulls, hay, sawdust, leaves, straw, newspapers.