Whole-Farm Planning (eBook)

Elizabeth Henderson, Karl North (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | Revised and updated edition
104 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-356-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 toolsMaking a framework to test decisionsIncluding examples and statements from practicing farmers, and more holistic resources and alternative business models.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

2. Assessing the whole: what are we managing?

3. Goal setting is also an ongoing process

4. Making decisions that consider all the variables in your whole ... and their interdependency

5. Choosing appropriate tools

6. A framework to make and test decisions and monitor results

7. Conclusion: keeping our balance

8. Examples of whole and goal statements from practicing farmers

Resources

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Illustrationen: Jocelyn Langer
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white illustrations
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: ecological farm production • Ecological processes • Economic processes • farm designing tools • farm diversification • farming • Garden • Gardening • how to plan your farm • Market garden • organic • Organic Farming • Organic Gardening • scientific thinking • social processes • sustainable agriculture • Sustainable Solutions • whole farm • whole farm planning • whole farm system
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-356-4 / 1603583564
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-356-5 / 9781603583565