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Overview
To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the practice of small-scale, local farming. The Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm describes the creation of a sustainable food system through a detailed case study of the successful year-round organic market garden and permaculture design at Pennsylvania’s Three Sisters Farm.
At the heart of Three Sisters is its bioshelter—a solar greenhouse which integrates growing facilities, poultry housing, a potting room, storage, kitchen facilities, compost bins, a reference library and classroom area. The Bioshelter Market Garden examines how the bioshelter promotes greater biodiversity and is an energy efficient method of extending crop production through Pennsylvania’s cold winter months. Both visionary and practical, this fully illustrated book contains a wealth of information on the application of permaculture principles. Some of the topics covered include:
- Design and management of an intensive market garden farm
- Energy systems and bio-thermal resources
- Ecological soil management and pest control
- Wetlands usage
- Solar greenhouse design and management
Whatever your gardening experience and ambitions, this comprehensive manual is sure to inform and inspire.
“Darrell Frey’s inspirational book gives you all you need to know to create an energy-saving, food-producing bioshelter . . . [It] covers everything you need to understand, build, or simply admire these important tools for sustainability.” —Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780865716780 |
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| Publisher: | New Society Publishers |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2010 |
| Edition description: | Illustrate |
| Pages: | 480 |
| Sales rank: | 942,094 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Toward a Permanent Culture Prologue Book Outline Five Acres and Interdependence The Value of the Small-Scale Farm Creation of Sustainable Local Food Systems Integrated Systems: Permaculture Design Sustainability Concepts of Ecology Permaculture and Agriculture Farm Ecology Three Sisters Farm Resource Survey Season Extension Outreach Back to the Earth
Chapter 2: Sustainable Food Systems : Safe, Healthful and SecureSustainability for Food Systems Food Safety and Public Awareness Food Security
Chapter 3: Direct Marketing for a Small Farm Preparation Business Management Marketing Farm Products Outreach and Education Programs
Chapter 4: The Permaculture Farm: Design Farm Design and Planning Site Analysis: The Land, the Community and the Environment Planning Season Extension Case Study: Design of Three Sisters Farm Sector Analysis Overlaying the Farm into the Landscape Bioshelter Wildlife at Three Sisters Farm: Many Neighbors Applied Observation
Chapter 5: Energy Systems on the Farm Conservation Biothermal Resource Recovery Solar Photovoltaic Applications
Chapter 6: Beyond Integrated Pest Control : Insects, Disease, Weeds and Other Pests Organic Methods Whole-systems Planning Ecological Pest Control Insects on the Farm Spiders on the Farm Design for Ecological Control Insects in the Bioshelter (and Other Creatures) Pests and Permaculture
Chapter 7: The Market Garden Farm: Management The Spiral Garden The South Garden The East Garden The Southeast Garden The Pond Garden The West Garden Smaller Gardens Crops and Products Perennials The Farm Woodlot Managing Plant Interactions
Chapter 8: Seasons of the Garden Winter Spring Summer Fall Bioshelter Maintenance Managing the Permaculture Landscape Planting Linda's Crop Profiles The Edible Flower Fungi
Chapter 9: Bioshelter Defined and Designed The Bioshelter Defined Why Build A Bioshelter? Bioshelter Daydreams Bioshelter Design A Bioshelter for Three Sisters Farm Farm Design
Chapter 10: Bioshelter Management Managing the Indoor Ecosystem — An Overview Gardener as Ecosystem Manager Bioshelter Management through the Seasons Other Aspects of Bioshelter Management From a Tiny Seed: Starting Seedlings Countless Bioshelter Possibilities
Chapter 11: Compost and Biothermal Resources Harvesting Compost's Multiple Yields Traditional Uses of Biothermal Energy Compost and the NOP Biothermal Resources Composting Practices at Three Sisters Farm
Chapter 12: Chickens in the Greenhouse Food Security Finding the Right Bird
Chapter 13: Permaculture for Wetlands Lost Wetlands Care of the Earth Classes of Wetlands Basic Design Procedures Design for Wetlands Ponds The Pond at Three Sisters Farm and Nursery
Chapter 14: Education on the Farm Benefits and Costs Three Sisters Farm Programs
Chapter 15: Home Sweet Home Taking the Lessons Learned Back Home Epilogue: The Farm Ecosystem Evolves Feeling Part of the Cycle Biodiversity: Farm Community A Hopeful Enterprise
Appendix A (to chapter 11): Applicable Regulations for Agricultural Composting n PennsylvaniavRelevant Pennsylvania DEP rules excerpted from "Agricultural Composting of Manures: Supplement to ManurevManagement for Environmental Protection,"
Appendix B (to chapter 11): Compost Calculations Compost Heat Gain and Loss
Appendix C: Greenhouse Heat Dynamics: Figuring Solar Gain, Solar Storage, and Heat Loss Temperate Zone Wetland Plants
Index About the Author
What People are Saying About This
"Darrell Frey's inspirational book gives you all you need to know to create an energy-saving, food-producing bioshelter. It not only offers plenty of detail on the nuts and bolts of construction and maintenance, but it also provides the big picture: the concepts and principles behind these innovative structures. Bioshelter Market Garden covers everything you need to understand, build, or simply admire these important tools for sustainability."
—Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
"Darrell Frey has mapped out the possibility of regeneration of individuality and of nature, of liberty, of community, of food security and of ethics such as the modern agricultural literature has never known — a harmony with nature, with the earth, with one another in a sharing society such as the world has often dreamed."
—Prof. Declan Kennedy - Chairman, Advisory Board, www.gaiauniversity.org
"Darrell Frey's Bioshelter Market Garden is a welcome addition to the North American permaculture lexicon. Darrell has pondered and observed his systems — large and small — for a long time, and I'm glad he has shared his successes and lessons with us. The book is sensible, grounded, and practical, while offering a wide view of how to put the pieces together in a multifunctional way, on the ground, as a business, and as a way of life. The world needs more bioshelters, and this book contributes substantially to reinvigorating the development and deployment of this technology."
—Dave Jacke, Dynamics Ecological Design
"The increasingly complex ecological problems we face today will require increasingly complex solutions, leaving the average person to wonder where to even start. Darrell Frey's example, as exhibited in this book, is as simple as it is essential . . . one must start here and now, with what nature has provided. Frey is no dreamer, but a practitioner, who shows us how the world can and must be changed, one farmer, and one small plot of land at a time."
—Brian Snyder - Executive Director, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA )
"It is no simple matter to create livelihood on a few acres and to preserve the biodiversity of that place. In Bioshelter Market Garden , author Darrell Frey shares the wisdom of his 20-plus years of doing so, and invites readers to work with the sun, the dragonflies, the muskrats, and the complexities of human enterprise to engage their own blessed swatch of land."
—Terril L. Shorb, Ph.D., Founder, Prescott College Sustainable Community Development Program
"Some of us learn by reading, some by asking questions, and some of us just forge ahead and take risks. Darrell Frey is in that last category, and the lessons he has gleaned the hard way over the past 30 years, are now available to anyone who wants to plan for an uncertain future. Frey shows, with well-illustrated case studies, how to grow a fourseason garden, turn sunlight and rainfall into sources of income, and live in the comfort of an architectural ecosystem that nourishes the planet as it shelters the family."
—Albert Bates, author of The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change .
"Darrell Frey is at once keen observer, adept teacher and consummate communicator, demonstrating to the reader in a style reminiscent of Aldo Leopold how we are all connected to the web of life and that our daily choices matter. Bioshelter Market Garden is equal parts inspired storytelling and how-to manual for living creatively and responsibly upon the earth. Through his own experience as a permaculture instructor and market gardener, Frey sets forth a detailed roadmap by which we might all reach a sustainable future and celebrate our interdependence."
—Dan Sullivan, managing editor BioCycle magazine and former senior editor with NewFarm.org and Organic Gardening magazine.
" Bioshelter Market Garden is a must read for home gardeners and farmers alike. Darrell Frey shares the secrets of creating a great year round growing system developed through a lifetime of farming. Best of all, he teaches readers simply how to grow things the right way, organically. The lavishly illustrated book is an essential tool for sustainable growing."
—Doug Oster, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Garden Columnist and Co-host The Organic Gardeners Radio Show