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Author | : Ken Mudge |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1603585079 |
Learn how to fill forests with food by viewing agriculture from a remarkably different perspective: that a healthy forest can be maintained while growing a wide range of food, medicinal, and other nontimber products. The practices of forestry and farming are often seen as mutually exclusive, because in the modern world, agriculture involves open fields, straight rows, and machinery to grow crops, while forests are reserved primarily for timber and firewood harvesting. In Farming the Woods, authors Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel demonstrate that it doesn’t have to be an either-or scenario, but a complementary one; forest farms can be most productive in places where the plow is not: on steep slopes and in shallow soils. Forest farming is an invaluable practice to integrate into any farm or homestead, especially as the need for unique value-added products and supplemental income becomes increasingly important for farmers. Many of the daily indulgences we take for granted, such as coffee, chocolate, and many tropical fruits, all originate in forest ecosystems. But few know that such abundance is also available in the cool temperate forests of North America. Farming the Woods covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value nontimber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (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; • creating 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. Farming the Woods is an essential book for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland, are looking for productive ways to manage it, and are interested in incorporating aspects of agroforestry, permaculture, forest gardening, and sustainable woodlot management into the concept of a whole-farm organism.
Author | : B.E. Fernow |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2023-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368915339 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Geneviève Michon |
Publisher | : CIFOR |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Agroforestry |
ISBN | : 9793361654 |
Author | : John Arden Ferguson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Conservacion de bosques |
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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.
Author | : Bernhard Eduard Fernow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mitch Lansky |
Publisher | : Maine Evironmental Policy Inst |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Forest management |
ISBN | : |
"Sustainable forestry is right where organic gardening was a generation ago--at the very beginning of working out the techniques and technologies that will let logging thrive at a scale appropriate to both the human and natural communities that depend on the forest. This book is at--if you will pardon the expression--the absolute cutting edge of that process." Bill McKibben, author ofThe End of Nature, Hope, Human and Wild, Enough, and other books If the future really mattered . . . How would forests be managed to improve, rather than degrade, future timber values? How would trees be cut to minimize damage to the residual forest? How would foresters measure success towards minimizing damage? How would loggers be paid to lower logging impacts? How would forests be managed in a way that ensures the survival of all native species? How would woodlot owners be able to afford this type of management? Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Matteredanswers these questions and more. Using Maine as a case study, this book offers forestry goals and guidelines that emphasize quality and value while conserving biodiversity and supporting communities for the long term.
Author | : Pinchot Gifford |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 587746843X |
Author | : John E. Wagner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2011-07-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136665765 |
Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to all aspects of the management and economics of forestry. The book adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and applies this to the unique processes and problems faced by managers of forests. While most forestry economics books are written by economists for future economists, what many future forest and natural resource managers need is to understand what economic information is and how to use it to make better business and management decisions. John E. Wagner draws on his twenty years of experience teaching and working in the field of forest resource economics to present students with an accessible understanding of the unique production processes and problems faced by forest and other natural resource managers. There are three unique features of this book: The first is its organization. The material is organized around two common economic models used in forest and natural resources management decision making. The second is the use of case studies from various disciplines: Outdoor and Commercial Recreation, Wood Products Engineering, Forest Products, and Forestry. The purpose of these case studies is to provide students with applications of the concepts being discussed within the text. The third is revisiting the question of how to use economic information to make better business decisions at the end of each chapter. This ties each chapter to the preceding ones and reinforces the hypothesis that a solid working knowledge of these economic models and the information they contain are necessary for making better business decisions. This textbook is an invaluable source of clear and accessible information on forestry economics and management for not only economics students, but for students of other disciplines and those already working in forestry and natural resources.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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