Silvopasture

Silvopasture
Author: Steve Gabriel
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1603587314

In this how-to guide, ecologist and forest farmer Steve Gabriel explores the philosophy and techniques behind silvopasture - the integration of trees, animals, and forages in a whole-system approach that creates a number of benefits for livestock, farmers, and the environment. This system not only provides a sustainable farm income, but also holds the key to restoring land, building soil carbon, and creating climate resilience.--COVER.

Restoration Agriculture

Restoration Agriculture
Author: Mark Shepard
Publisher: Acres U.S.A., Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Agricultural ecology
ISBN: 9781601730350

Around the globe most people get their calories from "annual" agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm or ranch. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.

Farms Trees and Farmers

Farms Trees and Farmers
Author: J. E. Michael Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1134182937

This title aims to provide introductory and concluding surveys of the subject of farms, trees and farmers. Two central parts explore trends in farmer tree-growing and the factors which influence decision-making. Eight case studies cover, among other topics, the need for tree products, market access, the allocation of land and labour, and exposure to risk. In showing why farmers decide to grow or not grow trees, it seeks to increase the reader's knowledge about farming systems and to provide a guide to encouraging farm forestry throughout the world.

Design, implementation and management of naturalistic Permanent Polycyclic Tree farms

Design, implementation and management of naturalistic Permanent Polycyclic Tree farms
Author: Enrico Buresti Lattes
Publisher: Compagnia delle Foreste Srl
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2016-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 8898850239

Before this handbook there were only a few technical or scientific articles, made during the previous 10 years. This new book contains, in a single logical path, all the activities necessary to design the naturalistic Permanent Polycyclic Tree farms. Two chapters touch upon establishment and management of wood plantation, while three chapters outline the environmental and economic impacts of naturalistic Permanent Polycyclic Tree farms. The handbook, edited by AALSEA and Compagnia delle Foreste within the project LIFE + InBioWood (LIFE12 ENV/IT/000153), is now available in a digital version for free download from the website www.inbiowood.eu. This book, called “Design, implementation and management of naturalistic Permanent Polycyclic Tree farms”, describes a "new way" to produce wood outside forest, through some innovative naturalistic and agronomic criteria developed to overcome some of the main limitations of traditional tree farms.

Unusual Farms

Unusual Farms
Author: Brenda Haugen
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756506681

Describes unusual farms and what you might find on them.