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Building a resilient homestead of your own

By Staff Reports | July 8, 2013

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“Imagine inheriting a food forest,” farmer and author Ben Falk suggests in The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach. And although Falk does eventually go on to describe exactly how one would go about creating a low-maintenance, edible forest garden, the idea he poses ignites a greater question – what does it mean to leave … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ben Falk, homesteading, permaculture, systems theory, Vermont, Whole Systems Research Farm

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