Angela Ferraro-Fanning
The Sustainable Homestead: Create a Thriving Permaculture Ecosystem with Your Garden, Animals, and Land
The Sustainable Homestead: Create a Thriving Permaculture Ecosystem with Your Garden, Animals, and Land
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The Sustainable Homestead is a book by Angela Ferraro-Fanning that shares techniques and tips for a homestead with synergy between soil, plants, animals, and trees. It provides detailed information for new and veteran homesteaders to put to use, covering site selection, soil, growing, pasture, animals, compost, and overstory. By achieving synergy, homesteaders can make their homestead stronger and more resilient.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Join the permaculture revolution! Author Angela Ferraro-Fanning (Axe & Root Homestead) shares techniques and tips for a homestead with synergy between soil, plants, animals, and trees.
If you're like most homesteaders, the dream is to make the most of your land by working with it, not against it. From capturing water and building strong soil to helping your animals live their best lives, The Sustainable Homestead is about making your homestead stronger by achieving synergy between what can seem like different parts.
In this book, new and veteran homesteaders alike can find detailed information to put to use this year, this month, even this week! Angela—also the co-host of the HOMESTEADucation podcast and author of the Little Homesteader/Little Country Cottage series of children's books—has spent more than a decade building and strengthening her small acreage homestead and shares the lessons chapter by chapter:
Site Selection:
Evaluate the elements, water flow and management, wildlife considerations, effective layouts, land elevation, water access points, permaculture zones, considerations based on acreage, how to remedy site shortcomings.
Soil:
The importance of soil, symptoms of poor soil, synthetics, water and erosion, healthier crops and animals, how to regenerate soil, cover crops, no-till method, perennial plantings.
Growing:
Catching and storing water with swales, catchment ponds, and rain barrels; sunlight and garden design including mandala, terrace, and forest; plant choices; companion planting; holistic pest management including cultural, physical, and biological options.
Pasture:
Design considerations, cover cropping, grazing, animal compatibility, pasture rotation, closed-loop grazing systems, maintenance, solar fencing.
Animals:
Chickens, ducks, geese.
Weight: 614g
Dimension: 188 x 247 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760380482
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