Quote by Charles C. Mann

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“This is what works for me: I practise crop rotation with my creative endeavours. I’ve found that when the nitrogen runs out in the…

— Andrew Macrae

“The act of farming starts in the heart before it reaches the soil.”

— Olawale Daniel

“It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.”

— Robin Hobb

“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”

— Charles Dowding

“The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in you will…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“in a short essay I wrote in 1991, Gardening As Agriculture. In that essay I asserted that gardening should be recognized as a serious…

— Peter Bane

“Feed the soil, not your plants.”

— Charles Dowding

“That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing…

— Joseph Roth

“Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature is continually…

— Kristin Kimball

“A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people... "A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which…

— John Marsden

“Sometimes, only bloodshed can replenish the garden's soil.”

— Tony Hayden