The permaculture market garden : a visual guide to a profitable whole-systems farm business / Zach Loeks.

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"Author Zach Loeks brings together his passion for sustainable permaculture food production systems and beautiful, vibrant illustrations to provide a highly visual guide to the smooth integration of permaculture into the market garden, without use of major equipment or operation changes. Profiling c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loeks, Zach, 1985- (Author)
Other Authors: Salatin, Joel (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2017]
Subjects:
Permaculture.
Truck farming.
Sustainable agriculture.
Agricultural landscape management.
Farm layout.
Culture maraîchère.
Agriculture durable.
Paysages agricoles > Gestion.
Exploitations agricoles > Aménagement.
permaculture.
GARDENING > Organic.
HOUSE & HOME > Sustainable Living.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Organic.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Physical Description:xiii, 273 pages : colour illustrations, colour portrait ; 26 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Farm ecosystem
  • Earth systems and natural science
  • Ecosystem services
  • Whole farm mapping
  • Why map your farm?
  • Holistic planning
  • Defining the whole and making a holistic goal
  • Holistic budgeting for profit resilience
  • Guild enterprise production
  • Design management
  • Why design?
  • Design management
  • Our permabed system
  • The permabed system
  • Permabed principles
  • Layout and land preparation
  • Organized garden patterning
  • Guild crop production
  • Guild crop designs
  • Perma investment.