Mark Shephard Intro To Restoration Agriculture - Free Audiobook

he lecture will draw extensively on Mark’s experience establishing and developing New Forest Farm as one of North America’s largest and most innovative perennial farm ecosystems.

Using nature as a model, Restoration Agriculture is the intentional restoration of healthy, functional ecosystems as the context for economically-viable farm operations. Perennial crops, livestock, fungus, and pollinators are integrated to produce abundant food, fiber, and fuel crops while simultaneously restoring critical ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, water purification and infiltration, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity.

Mark will discuss the strategic how-to’s of implementing Restoration Agriculture beginning with the agroforestry techniques of alley cropping and multi-species silvopasture grazing, along with how to implement water management systems based off of natural patterns and informed by Keyline patterning pioneered by P.A. Yeomans.

Inputs-based agriculture, pest and disease cycles, plant and animal breeding, compost & compost teas, nitrogen-fixing woody plants, 16-brick rocket stoves, herb spirals, and hugulkultur will all be mentioned before winding up with a passionate call to arms for all farmers, land owners or aspirants, to rise to the challenges of our times, to live and work toward the creation of an