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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- 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."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 395 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- 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
- Label
- 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
- Statement of responsibility
- Josh Trought
- Title variation
- D Acres model for creating and managing an ecologically designed educational center
- 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."
- Cataloging source
- DNAL/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Trought, Josh
- Dewey number
- 631.5/809742
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- 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
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index
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- volume
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- 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
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- unmediated
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- 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
- 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
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893453711
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