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The Resource The community-scale permaculture farm : the D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center, Josh Trought

The community-scale permaculture farm : the D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center, Josh Trought

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With practical examples of alternative building, renewable energy, holistic forestry, no-till gardening, hospitality management, community outreach, and more The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm describes not only the history of the D Acres project, but its evolving principles and practices that are rooted in the land, its inhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. For almost twenty years, D Acres of New Hampshire has challenged and expanded the common definition of a farm. As an educational center that researches, applies, and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming, D Acres serves more than just a single function to its community. By turns it is a hostel for travelers to northern New England, a training center for everything from metal- and woodworking to cob building and seasonal cooking, a gathering place for music, poetry, joke-telling, and potluck meals, and much more. While this book provides a wide spectrum of practical information on the physical systems designed into a community-scale homestead, Trought also reviews the economics and organizational particulars that D Acres has experimented with over the years. The D Acres model envisions a way to devise a sustainable future by building a localized economy that provides more than seasonal produce, a handful of eggs, and green appliances. With the goal of perennial viability for humanity within their ecosystem, D Acres is attempting an approach to sustainability that encompasses practical, spiritual, and ethical components. In short: They are trying to create a rural community ecology that evolves in perpetuity. From working with oxen to working with a board of directors, no other book contains such a wealth of innovative ideas and ways to make your farm or homestead not only more sustainable, but more inclusive of, and beneficial to, the larger community. Readers will find information on such subjects as: Working with pigs to transform forested landscapes into arable land; Designing and building unique, multifunctional farm and community spaces using various techniques and materials; Creating and perpetuating diverse revenue streams to keep your farm organization solvent and resilient; Receiving maximum benefits and yields for the farm without denigrating resources or the regional ecology; Implementing a fair and effective governance structure; Constructing everything from solar dehydrators and cookers to treehouses and ponds; and, Connecting and partnering with the larger community beyond the farm. Emphasizing collaboration, cooperation, and mutualism, this book promises to inspire a new generation of growers, builders, educators, artists, and dreamers who are seeking new and practical ways to address today s problems on a community scale."
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xi, 395 pages
Note
Includes index
Contents
  • Current paradigm
  • Historical precedents
  • Sense of place
  • History of the project and people
  • Daily life
  • Meetings
  • Budget
  • Governance
  • Animals
  • Buildings
  • Renewables
  • Water systems
  • Food systems
  • Garden development and soil strategy
  • The farm ecology
  • Forestry
  • Community outreach
  • Cottage industry
  • Marketing and promotion
  • Ideas to come
Isbn
9781603584753
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The community-scale permaculture farm : the D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center
Title
The community-scale permaculture farm
Title remainder
the D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center
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Josh Trought
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D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
With practical examples of alternative building, renewable energy, holistic forestry, no-till gardening, hospitality management, community outreach, and more The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm describes not only the history of the D Acres project, but its evolving principles and practices that are rooted in the land, its inhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. For almost twenty years, D Acres of New Hampshire has challenged and expanded the common definition of a farm. As an educational center that researches, applies, and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming, D Acres serves more than just a single function to its community. By turns it is a hostel for travelers to northern New England, a training center for everything from metal- and woodworking to cob building and seasonal cooking, a gathering place for music, poetry, joke-telling, and potluck meals, and much more. While this book provides a wide spectrum of practical information on the physical systems designed into a community-scale homestead, Trought also reviews the economics and organizational particulars that D Acres has experimented with over the years. The D Acres model envisions a way to devise a sustainable future by building a localized economy that provides more than seasonal produce, a handful of eggs, and green appliances. With the goal of perennial viability for humanity within their ecosystem, D Acres is attempting an approach to sustainability that encompasses practical, spiritual, and ethical components. In short: They are trying to create a rural community ecology that evolves in perpetuity. From working with oxen to working with a board of directors, no other book contains such a wealth of innovative ideas and ways to make your farm or homestead not only more sustainable, but more inclusive of, and beneficial to, the larger community. Readers will find information on such subjects as: Working with pigs to transform forested landscapes into arable land; Designing and building unique, multifunctional farm and community spaces using various techniques and materials; Creating and perpetuating diverse revenue streams to keep your farm organization solvent and resilient; Receiving maximum benefits and yields for the farm without denigrating resources or the regional ecology; Implementing a fair and effective governance structure; Constructing everything from solar dehydrators and cookers to treehouses and ponds; and, Connecting and partnering with the larger community beyond the farm. Emphasizing collaboration, cooperation, and mutualism, this book promises to inspire a new generation of growers, builders, educators, artists, and dreamers who are seeking new and practical ways to address today s problems on a community scale."
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Trought, Josh
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631.5/809742
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Permaculture
  • Organic farming
  • Sustainable living
Target audience
adult
Label
The community-scale permaculture farm : the D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center, Josh Trought
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Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Content type code
  • sti
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Current paradigm -- Historical precedents -- Sense of place -- History of the project and people -- Daily life -- Meetings -- Budget -- Governance -- Animals -- Buildings -- Renewables -- Water systems -- Food systems -- Garden development and soil strategy -- The farm ecology -- Forestry -- Community outreach -- Cottage industry -- Marketing and promotion -- Ideas to come
Control code
000053830380
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xi, 395 pages
Isbn
9781603584753
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2014043713
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
(OCoLC)893453711
Label
The community-scale permaculture farm : the D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center, Josh Trought
Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Content type code
  • sti
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Current paradigm -- Historical precedents -- Sense of place -- History of the project and people -- Daily life -- Meetings -- Budget -- Governance -- Animals -- Buildings -- Renewables -- Water systems -- Food systems -- Garden development and soil strategy -- The farm ecology -- Forestry -- Community outreach -- Cottage industry -- Marketing and promotion -- Ideas to come
Control code
000053830380
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xi, 395 pages
Isbn
9781603584753
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2014043713
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
(OCoLC)893453711

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