"Author Zach Loeks brings together his passion for sustainable permaculture food production systems and beautiful, vibrant illustrations to provide a highly visual guide to the smooth integration of permaculture into the market garden, without use of major equipment or operation changes. Profiling crops and ecosystem-based systems, Loeks demonstrates a profitable, sustainable and approachable model for the future of market gardening."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Farm ecosystem -- Earth systems and natural science -- Ecosystem services -- Whole farm mapping -- Why map your farm? -- Holistic planning -- Defining the whole and making a holistic goal -- Holistic budgeting for profit resilience -- Guild enterprise production -- Design management -- Why design? -- Design management -- Our permabed system -- The permabed system -- Permabed principles -- Layout and land preparation -- Organized garden patterning -- Guild crop production -- Guild crop designs -- Perma investment.