Read
Small Family Farms Aren’t the Answer
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Module 19 / 25
Broadscale Landscape Design
Topics
- Development of Zones 3, 4, and 5
- Practical procedures in property design
- Strategies for farmers
- Wildlife habitat
What you’ll learn
Learning goals
- Understand imperatives and challenges of rural regeneration, income from acres
Read, watch & explore
Getting the books · access & editions
Use your own copy, buy the book, or borrow it through a library when possible. If you are local to me, contact me about borrowing a copy. You can also contact me for information about digital or other access to assigned readings.
Ask about reading access ↗If your edition uses different page numbers, contact me and we can match the correct section. Contact instructor.
Broadscale farming approaches
Watch
Richard Perkins Video
YouTube
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Read
Designing and managing regenerative farms and smallholdings - Permaculture Association
permaculture.org.uk
Open resourcePerennial systems and livelihoods
Book reading
Restoration Agriculture
Mark Shepard
end of Chapter 1, start at “Birds flew in and around the branches of the trees”
Chapter 6: The perennial-cropping case
Chapter 7: Begins with “Identify Your Biome” and moves to economic species and system assembly
Chapter 17, “Making a Profit” — optional further reading for farm-scale interests
Book access & editionsUse current local costs and prices for your own estimates.
Book reading
Practical Permaculture
Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein
Pages 291 to 295: income from acres
Book access & editionsZones, habitat, and maintenance
Watch
Food and Wildlife Garden Together Video
YouTube
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Watch
Permaculture Zone 3 Video
YouTube
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Watch
Permaculture Zone 4 Video
YouTube
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Watch
Permaculture Zone 5 Video
YouTube
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Watch New Forest Farm from Module 11 and review the Oregon State zones resource in this module. Relate access, harvesting, habitat, and maintenance to the chosen scale.
Read
Oregon State: Zones
Oregon State University
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Read
New Forest Farm
In this course
Open resourceReadings & resources
- Small Family Farms Aren’t the AnswerReadIn lesson ↑
- Richard Perkins VideoWatchIn lesson ↑
- Designing and managing regenerative farms and smallholdings - Permaculture AssociationReadIn lesson ↑
- Restoration Agricultureend of Chapter 1, start at “Birds flew in and around the branches of the trees”Chapter 6: The perennial-cropping caseChapter 7: Begins with “Identify Your Biome” and moves to economic species and system assemblyChapter 17, “Making a Profit” — optional further reading for farm-scale interestsIn lesson ↑
- Practical PermaculturePages 291 to 295: income from acresIn lesson ↑
- Food and Wildlife Garden Together VideoWatchIn lesson ↑
- Permaculture Zone 3 VideoWatchIn lesson ↑
- Permaculture Zone 4 VideoWatchIn lesson ↑
- Permaculture Zone 5 VideoWatchIn lesson ↑
- Oregon State: ZonesReadIn lesson ↑
- New Forest FarmReadIn lesson ↑