Elizabeth Henderson, Karl North

Whole-Farm Planning (eBook, ePUB)

Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values, and Economics
Illustrator: Langer, Jocelyn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why do whole-farming planning? What makes it more effective than other ways of managing farms? The answers to these questions lie in a quiet rediscovery through science that is fundamentally changing the way modern humans see and must manage the world.

The goal of this whole-farm planning manual is to reintroduce a macroscopic method of making and testing decisions on the farm and in larger wholes in which we live. This NOFA guide has information on:

• Lessons from systems science (including tools)
• Assessing the whole farm (what are we managing? the people, physical and mental assets, money)
• Understanding the farm ecosystems (the water and mineral cycles, dynamics of the biological community, the energy flow)
• Choosing appropriate tools
• Making a framework to test decisions

Including examples and statements from practicing farmers, and more holistic resources and alternative business models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781603583565
• Artikelnr.: 41338699

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Henderson co-authored The Real Dirt and Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture. She farms in Newark, New York, and has been involved in CSA farming for more than 15 years.