FINAL REPORT Sainte Marie Pilot Project: For the safe remediation of human waste and its transformation into an optimum fertilizer by the Howard-Higgins System (TNR) EcoSan, with thermophilic composting . By New Directions Foundation LONDON – HAITI May 2010 Author: Richard Higgins, agricultural researcher and leading exponent of the science of thermophilic composting and waste […]
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The Alchemy of Agriculture Farming for the Future Saturday, October 2, 2010 aftermath of the Haiti earthquake – the full story Richard Higgins – Eco consultant for the NGO New Directions Foundation goes to help with the sanitation crisis at the international earthquake relief effort in Haiti.On a cold morning in mid January 2010
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List of lectures Capel Manor College at invitation of Lois Amos (RHS) Coventry University 2009, The Howard Memorial Lecture The Soil Association Symposium, Coventry Motor Museum, 2013 The National Badgers Conference, Lymington Hants. Summer 2013 Engineers Without Borders, London The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014
An excerpt from Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease, Howard, 1945 £9.00 from SuAgLon. My next post was more promising – that of Botanist to the South East of England Agricultural College at Wye in Kent. Where in addition to teaching I was placed in charge of the experiments on the growing and drying
As a researcher and advocator of truly organic systems one of the main errors in modern farming is that of the breeding of short straw varieties of cereal crops. The main source of fertiliser on a mixed farm is straw. The cheapest form of building houses with the best insulation properties is with straw. The traditional
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A Fly in the ointment of agriculture How GM food and GE technology can detriment the world by trying to take agriculture away from humanity and manipulate it into a globally owned business. If you Google GMO foods you get all the bad stuff about GM not any good stuff – what does that tell
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Scale Up Trials in Uganda 2012 with prototypes for HH-2 HH-2 is now in full production and can be obtained from our UK factory please go to our products page In our scale up trials at the farm of Makerere University near Kampala we found that in a 1.5m3 prototype unit we disposed of the
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Richard Higgins, author and researcher. While others have commercialized various agricultural products to sell to farmers we are teaching how any farmer and for example, the 70% of Africans who are rural poor, can transform their own farm and household waste products into the most valuable fertilser – for FREE. The results of doing this
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Welcome to Nutritional Info at the Well End Micro-farm. We are Micro for two reasons. We are a small farm and we specialize in massively increasing the micro biological activity of the soil. This is the key to understanding natural health in plants, animals and man. Our food in Europe and most of the world
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Transcription of “The Howard Lecture” 2009 Given at the Venue of the University of Coventry for International visitors to the Royal Show from Nigeria, hosted by ‘Grow Africa’ in the interest of
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