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Water for Any Farm: Applying Restoration Agriculture Water Management Methods on Your Farm by Mark Shepard
Water for Any Farm: Applying Restoration Agriculture Water Management Methods on Your Farm by Mark Shepard
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Water for Any Farm: Applying Restoration Agriculture Water Management Methods on Your Farm by Mark Shepard (Author), Jack Spirko (Foreword)
- Publisher : Acres U.S.A., Inc. (June 24, 2024)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1601731469
- ISBN-13 : 978-1601731463
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 0.55 x 10 inches
Now available! New from bestselling author Mark Shepard!
Written as a companion to the bestseller Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capture water in areas they want to and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point. The result? Less water expense, healthier crops and livestock, and less erosion ... just to name a few.
What you will read in this book is a distillation of over 25 years of on-the-ground experience working with and modifying the Yeomans’ Keyline Plan. From backyard suburbs to 10,000-acre ranches and everywhere in between, from permafrost mountainsides just shy of the Arctic Circle to equatorial boulder fields of East Africa, areas with 300 inches of rain per year to those with less than 3 inches, I have personally installed systems based on the Keyline design methodology and its modified forms.
What you will read in this book is tried and true. It is intended to give a sufficient background to any landowner so that they can optimize their water resource for higher site productivity, have greater drought resistance and just as importantly, to know deep in their heart that they have made even one little piece of earth a little more life-filled, livable and green.
Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development LLC and award-winning author of the book, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers. Mark has also been a farmer member of the Organic Valley cooperative, the worlds largest Organic Farmer s marketing co-op, since 1995. He is most widely known as the founder of New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial agricultural savanna considered by many to be one of the most ambitious sustainable agriculture projects in the United States. He is also the author of Restoration Agriculture.

