Restoration Agriculture, Mark Shepard
Restoration Agriculture, Mark Shepard
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Restoration Agriculture
Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

Author: Mark Shepard

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/29/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Mark Shepard

Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development LLC, and award-winning author of the book, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers. Mark has also been a farmer member of the Organic Valley cooperative, the worlds largest organic farmer's marketing co-op, since 1995. He is most widely known as the founder of New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial agricultural savanna considered by many to be one of the most ambitious sustainable agriculture projects in the United States.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on March 07, 2013

Mark Shepard's presentation at 2013's MOSES organic farming conference was among the most influential, rousing, and revelatory moments of the past few years of my life. He said nothing I didn't already know, but he put all the pieces together in a way that seemed new and showed me that the oft-discu......more

Goodreads review by Anna on November 21, 2013

I hate to be the nay-sayer to this book. Mark Shepard has a fascinating story to tell about his 106-acre food forest. Unfortunately, he doesn't tell it! Instead, he titillates us with tidbits of hands-on information (which might cover about 20 pages), then rants and regurgitates for the rest of the......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on January 20, 2017

I really enjoyed the discussion of what crops could be used for perennial agriculture in temperate regions. The author, however, fails to address the problem of the huge amounts of physical labor necessary to harvest the diverse fruit, nut, and root crops that would replace the fields of corn, wheat......more

Goodreads review by Pfairbanks on October 20, 2022

Restoration Agriculture is truly a revolutionary idea. I don't know what else to say about this book other than if you have any interest in becoming a farmer this book is essential and will change the way you think about how we produce our food. Now all I want to do is pick up a shovel and start pla......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on December 01, 2022

Ohhhhh I loved this, it’ll make you want to drop everything and become a nut farmer out in the woods.......more