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A Revolutionary Permaculture - Based System Using Greenhouses , Ponds , Compost Piles , Aquaponics , Chickens , and More
Shawn JadrnicekStephanie Jadrnicek
Paperback
$ 44.95
A twenty - first - century manual for managing nature ’s resources , this groundbreaking ceremony book brings “ system husbandry ” and permaculture to a whole new level .
InThe Bio - Integrated Farm , source Shawn Jadrnicek submit unexampled penetration into permaculture , move beyond the philosophic foundation to practical ripe designs ground on a operative analysis . harbor his design to a high criterion , Jadrnicek ’s portion do at least seven functions ( authoritative permaculture possibility only essay at least two functions ) . With every additional social function a component part performs , the design becomes more advanced and saves more energy .
A bio - integrated greenhouse , for example , does n’t just extend the season for acquire veg ; it also help as a rainwater collector , a pool site , an aquaponics system , and a heat generator . Jadrnicek ’s prevalent idea is using piddle to do the work . Although applicable in many climate , his design are peculiarly significant for area hook with body of water scarcity .
Jadrnicek focuses on his experience as farm manager at the Clemson University Student Organic Farm and at his residence in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains . These locations lie down at the coolheaded northern edge of a humid subtropical clime that pass west to the center of Texas and magnetic north along the coast to New Jersey . He has created permaculture pattern ranging from raise transplant and field conception to fresh water prawn product and composting . These pattern have simplify the surgical procedure of the 125 - share CSA farm while reducing trust on outdoor resource . In less time than it take to mow his two - acre homestead , Jadrnicek is building a you - cull fruit farm using permaculture patterns . His landscape requires only the project of harvesting , and the only external stimulant he buy is a small amount of chicken feed . By cautiously engaging the free force of nature — water , wind , sunlight , convection , gravity , and decay — Jadrnicek creates sustenance without maintenance and transform waste into valuable farm resource . The Bio - Integrated Farmoffers in - depth information about designing and progress a wide range of bio - integrated projects including reflect ponds , water supply - storehouse ponds , multipurpose basins , greenhouses , compost heat extraction , pasture wimp system of rules , aquaculture , aquiculture , hydronic heating , piddle filtration and aeration , cover cropping , and forward-looking rain - harvesting organisation that supply piss for dribble irrigation and flushing toilets .
“ [ Jadrnicek ’s ] visions are habit-forming , teaching you not just tothinkoutside the box by harmonise natural system but toactoutside the corner to produce inexpensive and highly useable growing environments that are much more profitable and efficient than traditional grow systems . ”—Tradd Cotter , author ofOrganic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
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