Starting a no-frills vegetable project on a small farm: Part 1

The concept of no-till is growing in leaps and bounds and is a major way of farming in countries like Brazil. South Africans should also adopt this successful method

- Bill Kerr

This may sound ludicrous as it goes against all conventional vegetable growing practices. But the concept that I will go through in a number of articles is in fact possible, as not only have I gone through the whole process, but I was also able to produce healthy, tasty vegetables more economically.

No-till production has so far mainly been applied to agronomic crops in countries like Brazil, but can be used very successfully for vegetables.

One of the big problems when one has a smallholding or small farm is the economics of purchasing machinery for a relatively small area, not even to mention the cost of a tractor that would be standing idle for most of the time.