The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook shows small-scale growers how to leverage this versatile, affordable, yet under-utilized tool to maximize the productivity and profitability of their enterprises. Required reading for urban farmers, suburban gardeners, rural homesteaders, orchardists, landscapers, and market gardeners.
The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook shows small-scale growers how to leverage this versatile, affordable, yet under-utilized tool to maximize the productivity and profitability of their enterprises. Required reading for urban farmers, suburban gardeners, rural homesteaders, orchardists, landscapers, and market gardeners.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Zach Loeks is an educator, grower, second-generation permaculture designer innovating and specializing in Edible Ecosystem Design. His passion is demonstrating how small actions - strategically linked - can create big change. He is director of the Ecosystem Solution Institute, where he consults widely with homes, farms, colleges, schools, and municipalities across North America and around the world. His purpose is to help people create more edible and diverse farms, gardens, and landscapes while enhancing food security, community well-being, and societal resilience. Zach manages an award-winning farm featuring diversified food forest products, heirloom garlic, and a hardy tree nursery. His innovations have earned him three provincial awards. He is the author of The Edible Ecosystem Solution and The Permaculture Market Garden. Zach splits his time between his rural farm in Ontario and a sister urban farm in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Liability Statement Cover & Inside Material Praise Preamble Introduction This Book's Format About This Book Small-Scale Profit Resilience Chapter 1: A Story About a Horse The Horse and His Boy The Origin of Two-Wheel Tractors Honoring the Two-Wheel Tractor The Italian Two-Wheel Renaissance Chapter 2: Two-Wheel Tractor Essentials The Definitive Two-Wheel Tractor Eleven Two-Wheel Tractor Benefits The Types of Two-Wheel Tractors Row Crop Tractor with High Clearance Row Crop Tractor Features Tractor Components: Form and Function Powersafe Clutch and Transmission Tractor Operation: Getting Started Steps to Get Operating Steps to Begin Implement Operation A Bit of Tractor Safety Chapter 3: Implements and Their Uses Types of Implements Selected Equipment Profiles Chapter 4: Equipment Decision-Making Scale-Suitable Equipment Scale Phases Equipment Guilds and Operation Cycles Guild Enterprise Production Guild Enterprise Brainstorming Template Budgeting for Tractors and Equipment Chapter 5: Selected Enterprise Examples The Backyard Gardener (.25-5 APA) Suburban Homesteader (1-3 APA) Market Grower (1-3 APA) Row Crop Farmer (3-6 APA) Back-to-the-Lander (3-15 APA) Groundskeeper and Landscaper (Various APA) Grassland Farmer (8-13 APA) Tree Nursery (3-6 APA) Edible Ecosystem Management Chapter 6: Permabed System for Two-Wheel Tractors Permabed System 101 Permabed Architecture Permaplot Design Permaplot Layout Compost-a-Path Principles Permabed Soil Design Using Equipment for Crop Rotation Management Chapter 7: Growing from Scratch 1. Clearing New Land (or Reclaiming) 2. Garden Plot Layout 3. Micro-Plowing a Field 4. Permabed Layout and Bed Building Options 5. Building Beds with a Power Ridger 6. Refining Your Rough Permabeds 7. Seasonal Bed Preparation Operations 8. Succession Planting and Crop Guild Design 9. Other Seasonal Management Chapter 8: Tractor Maintenance and Care Tractor Maintenance Simplified Essential Tools for Maintenance Essential Maintenance Supplies Maintenance Tips Checking and Changing Honda Engine Oil Two-Wheeling into the Future Glossary of Common Terms and Jargon Index About the Author About New Society Publishers
Liability Statement Cover & Inside Material Praise Preamble Introduction This Book's Format About This Book Small-Scale Profit Resilience Chapter 1: A Story About a Horse The Horse and His Boy The Origin of Two-Wheel Tractors Honoring the Two-Wheel Tractor The Italian Two-Wheel Renaissance Chapter 2: Two-Wheel Tractor Essentials The Definitive Two-Wheel Tractor Eleven Two-Wheel Tractor Benefits The Types of Two-Wheel Tractors Row Crop Tractor with High Clearance Row Crop Tractor Features Tractor Components: Form and Function Powersafe Clutch and Transmission Tractor Operation: Getting Started Steps to Get Operating Steps to Begin Implement Operation A Bit of Tractor Safety Chapter 3: Implements and Their Uses Types of Implements Selected Equipment Profiles Chapter 4: Equipment Decision-Making Scale-Suitable Equipment Scale Phases Equipment Guilds and Operation Cycles Guild Enterprise Production Guild Enterprise Brainstorming Template Budgeting for Tractors and Equipment Chapter 5: Selected Enterprise Examples The Backyard Gardener (.25-5 APA) Suburban Homesteader (1-3 APA) Market Grower (1-3 APA) Row Crop Farmer (3-6 APA) Back-to-the-Lander (3-15 APA) Groundskeeper and Landscaper (Various APA) Grassland Farmer (8-13 APA) Tree Nursery (3-6 APA) Edible Ecosystem Management Chapter 6: Permabed System for Two-Wheel Tractors Permabed System 101 Permabed Architecture Permaplot Design Permaplot Layout Compost-a-Path Principles Permabed Soil Design Using Equipment for Crop Rotation Management Chapter 7: Growing from Scratch 1. Clearing New Land (or Reclaiming) 2. Garden Plot Layout 3. Micro-Plowing a Field 4. Permabed Layout and Bed Building Options 5. Building Beds with a Power Ridger 6. Refining Your Rough Permabeds 7. Seasonal Bed Preparation Operations 8. Succession Planting and Crop Guild Design 9. Other Seasonal Management Chapter 8: Tractor Maintenance and Care Tractor Maintenance Simplified Essential Tools for Maintenance Essential Maintenance Supplies Maintenance Tips Checking and Changing Honda Engine Oil Two-Wheeling into the Future Glossary of Common Terms and Jargon Index About the Author About New Society Publishers
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