Whole-Farm Planning : Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values, and Economics EPUB
by Elizabeth Henderson, Karl North
Illustrated by Jocelyn Langer
Part of the Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series series
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Why do whole-farming planning? What makes it more effective than other ways of managing farms? The answers to these questions lie in a quiet rediscovery through science that is fundamentally changing the way modern humans see and must manage the world.
The goal of this whole-farm planning manual is to reintroduce a macroscopic method of making and testing decisions on the farm and in larger wholes in which we live. This NOFA guide has information on:
- Lessons from systems science (including tools)
- Assessing the whole farm (what are we managing? the people, physical and mental assets, money)
- Understanding the farm ecosystems (the water and mineral cycles, dynamics of the biological community, the energy flow)
- Choosing appropriate tools
- Making a framework to test decisions
Including examples and statements from practicing farmers, and more holistic resources and alternative business models.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:104 pages
- Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
- Publication Date:15/04/2011
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- ISBN:9781603583565
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:104 pages
- Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
- Publication Date:15/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781603583565