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Restoration Agriculture

Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

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Restoration Agriculture

By: Mark Shepard
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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Restoration Agriculture reveals how to sustainably grow perennial food crops that can feed us in our resource-compromised future.

The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale.

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. Using the restoration agriculture system, an oak savanna mimic will produce more than twice the number of edible human calories per acre as an average acre of corn, never needs to be planted again, prevents erosion, creates oil, and can be managed with no fossil fuel inputs. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.

©2013 Mark Shepard (P)2019 Tantor Agricultural & Food Sciences Environment Gardening & Horticulture Science Sustainable Agriculture Gardening Ecosystem Sustainability Sustainable Farming
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great book no issue finishing and a must read if you're interest in the subject matter.

Read many books on the subject, but I still learnt

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A bit heavy, listening to this for more than a few hours at a time but it's a good book and read well.

Great and informative

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This book has completely blown my mind and the obvious brilliance of it all is truly inspiring. Of course why hasn't any thought to simply copy what nature has been doing right all this time. Superb!!

Totally inspiring!!

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A call to action. A combination of the pragmatic approach to restoration agriculture and the underlying ethos. it is an eye opening view on how so many of the world's currently problems could be addressed. It was an engrossing listen.

inspiring

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In a nutshell(no pun intented), a very inspiring look at how forest agriculture could be the answer to all our problems

Positive and achievable solutions

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