The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
- ISBN-10
- 1603584447
- ISBN-13
- 9781603584449
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing Company
- Author
- Ben Falk
Description
A manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition, written by a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention.
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