Helping Nature Control Diseases and Pests Organically
by Brian Caldwell

Skilled farmers will appreciate this balanced, thorough presentation on creating a low-pest growing situation.

Vegetable Crop Health includes farmer-friendly chapters on organic pest management with heavy emphasis on proven no-spray cultural techniques that reduce pest numbers and damage. The book includes a full chapter on farm design and crop rotation toward this end. It gives a crop-by-crop discussion of specific pest management practices, including spray-based ³rescue² treatments.

The manual unlocks secrets of host plant resistance, soil health, trap cropping, cover crops, field layout, row covers and manipulating the overall farm environment.

Brian Caldwell has been a commercial organic vegetable grower for over 20 years, a Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator, and is now Farm Education Coordinator for NOFA-NY.