Author: Laurence C. WalkerPublisher: Backbeat Books
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Farming the Small Forest
Author: Laurence C. WalkerPublisher: Backbeat Books
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Farming the Woods
Author: Ken MudgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781603585088
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Farming the Woods covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value nontimber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, raps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamentals, and more. Along with profiles of forest farmers from around the country, readers are also provided comprehensive information on historical perspectives of forest farming; mimicking the forest in a changing climate; cultivation of medicinal crops; cultivation of food crops; crating a forest nursery; harvesting and utilizing wood products; the role of animals in the forest farm; and how to design your forest farm and manage it once it's established.
Small Forest and the Tree Farm - Logging the Small Forest for Profit (book 2).
Author: New Brunswick. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Paradise Lot
Author: Eric ToensmeierPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603584005
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.
Managing the Small Forest
Author: The Forest Farms of Kandy
Author: D.J. McConnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135188963X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Throughout the tropical world, especially in South and Southeast Asia, tropical America, Africa and Oceania, there exists a range of forest garden farming systems. These are small, low-input, but productive and sustainable family units of highly diversified trees, palms, bushes and vines, with few conventional field crops or livestock. Providing a survey of these systems around the world and an in-depth analysis of the farms around Kandy, Sri Lanka, this book offers an economic and ecological description and evaluation of this ancient agroforestry system and its relationship to a wide range of global agro-development and environmental problems. Guided by a table that lists some 30 socio-economic and social criteria by which all farming systems can and should be evaluated, the book presents persuasive evidence supported by comprehensive references. It also examines historical and archaeological findings in order to assess the role these tropical forests played in the general adoption of agricultural farming.
Small Forest and the Tree Farm - Woodlot Management for Profit (book 1).
Author: New Brunswick. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Farmers' Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Domesticating Forests: How Farmers Manage Forest Resources
Author: Geneviève MichonPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9793361654
Category : Agroforestry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Author: J. R. Bedard