Having written to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation about our Proposal to alleviate malnutrition in Africa with the HH-2 Horticultural System we received their reply and herein we are taking an excerpt of that reply and publish it here as it makes such interesting reading in connection with our charitable efforts. It starts […]
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BBC Today programme on the programme today of 12th December Dame Judy Dench is very keen on trees. The programme mentioned mycorrhiza fungi and that several universities have now done work on this networking fungus. It was Dr. Claire Rayner, in 1931, who pioneered this work as presented in the title Farming and Gardening for
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Organic farming not always best for environment, says government adviser Lord Krebs claims that organic farming needs more land than conventional methods to produce the same yield At least 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are thought to come from agriculture. Photograph: David Wootton / Alamy/Alamy View more sharing options This article is 2 years old
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Pesticides week on Farming Today. Bio rational pesticides. Discussion on this subject goes up to 3.50 minutes only. Professor Tarrick Butt: biological microbial agents like fungi, but there are new ways of deploying these agents. One strategy is lure and kill…….This is far far less efficient than generating the right soil conditions everywhere – to
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The HH-2 Horticultural System means no digging of the soil. No Chemicals added and Pests and Disease are brought to an absolute minimum. This is the opposite to conventional agriculture that ploughs the land and applies many chemicals. The principle of return is the objective, but returning organic matter in the right condition is
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BBC Radio 4 Farming Today broadcast of 15th March, 2017 Potato Cyst Nematodes I called Dr. Buggs, the head of research at Kew Gardens 20th March. He commented on my suggestion that such a disease can be cured by soil amendment. He replied that this disease is an airborne disease and cannot therefore be addressed
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Potato blight and cabbage worm potato blight, cabbage worm, solution – HH-2 Horticultural system As western institutions are still spending heaps of money on research of how to deal with these things, we must be years ahead of such institutions as we have already solved them 20 years ago. It would be better to spend
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We are receiving more and more enquiries about how to grow healthy food and the HH-2 The Howard-Higgins system, developed over many years, bears a food that is higher in nutritional benefits than conventionally grown food and even conventionally grown organic food. Evidence from the research of the Good Gardeners shows this, and today we
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CSA and Food waste management processed in the HH-2 Horticultural System Appearing on Radio 4 Farming Today….16th November, 2016 NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany) are embarking upon a project to take certain elements from waste food products to produce what they are calling Bio pesticides. Sustainable agriculture London and Good Gardeners International have already achieved
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Here is a long Permaculture article about pest control. While companion planting is a good thing and helps insect diversity it is not essential for pest and disease control with the HH -2 System. One of the main purposes of HH -2 is to produce optimum healthy plants which are full of synthesised protein. This
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