The Resilient Farm and Homestead explores ‘permaculture’, regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and the community resilience techniques pioneered by Ben Falk at the Whole Systems Research Farm.

What does this book cover?

The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach explores the permaculture techniques that the author has developed at his terraced hillside farm in Vermont as well as those he has helped to develop at locations served by his consulting business.

The Resilient Farm and Homestead looks at home-scale models of food production via:

• Agroforestry, silvopasture & grazing
• Earthworks
• Ecosystem services & flood mitigation
• Fertility management
• Fuelwood hedge production
• Gravity-fed water systems
• Nutrient-dense production strategies
• Rapid topsoil generation and remineralization;
• Whole system site design & site management
• Improving species composition through synergy
• Technology, tools & equipment

About the Author 

Ben Falk is the backbone of Whole Systems Design LLC, and describes himself as a ‘backcountry traveller, tree-tender, ecologist, designer and builder. He has graduate degrees in landscape architecture and landscape design. He teaches at Harvard and the University of Vermont.

In The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach, he seeks to inspire landform engineers, landscape designers and farmers to create more sustainable, more effective agricultural landscapes.