Restoration Agriculture

Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

By: Mark Shepard

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

Restoration Agriculture reveals how to sustainably grow perennial food crops that can feed us in our resource-compromised future.

The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale.

Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs. Using the restoration agriculture system, an oak savanna mimic will produce more than twice the number of edible human calories per acre as an average acre of corn, never needs to be planted again, prevents erosion, creates oil, and can be managed with no fossil fuel inputs. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.

©2013 Mark Shepard (P)2019 Tantor

Amazing and insightful

not only am I going to partially use this book as a guide for my future self sufficient farm but I would use it as a revolutionary solution to our growing agriculture problems. I would invoke any person whether backyard gardeners to large scale farmers to read and think about how the conditions of our annual agriculture system aren't getting better and the lengths we are taking to maintain it not only are damaging to our planet but to our health and well being and will not last forever. it's an ever growing world and we need to grow with it or end up like the dinos and fallen civilizations before us.

The Answer IS Permaculture!

Easy to understand narration. The topic of Permaculture is completely understandable. Call to action!

Wow!

Anyone who’s interested in creating a life time food Supply for future family look no further !!

There is hope for a healthy earth

This book has so many awesome ideas and makes me so happy to live in the country. It makes me want to reconstruct my yard and grow all these different edibles and be a healthier person. Mark Shepard has such open eyes for mother earth and healthy lives. Great book shows everyone that we can not only help the earth but also help ourselves be healthier. It is doable and anyone with a piece of property can do it. It’s all in the book.

Life Changing

The Best Book I’ve ever read on Agriculture!! Mark is a genius!!
We are changing the World.

This book is so good.

I absolutely loved this book. We have been on a gardening journey for awhile, studied a lot of different ideas. It wasn't until this book that everything seemed to click in my head. Every alternative gardening method is right as long as we combine them all? Seems to easy, though in reality it is that easy.

A clear and less philosophical approach to permacu

A lot of the permaculture books out there are too much about vision boards a vin diagrams.
The bad: I don't need 4 chapters about global warming and soil destruction. I don't think anyone reading or listening to these kinds of books needs that filler content.
The good: it's a very clear approach to food forests and sustainable agriculture. I have been studying those chapters and there's some very good content here. I also recommend his book on water everywhere. these books go together.

First do, then teach concepts

Great treasure trove of ideas for practical agro forestry and permaculture enthusiasts and people who care about their health and budget

Absolutely Excellent

This book should be necessary reading material in every school. Excellent book for all ages. I would give it 20 stars, 5 is not enough. This story has the power to advance civilization in a huge way.

Great explanation but missing one key topic

As a fellow restoration agriculture or permaculture practitioner, I’m already a believer. I feel like this book was written to convince ppl of the need to switch from monoculture agriculture to poly culture. Since I’m already there, it was a good explanation of the cost analysis and I appreciate the data that went into explaining everything. However, one key component that was not addressed at all is LABOR! We all know that poly cultures require a lot more labor than monocultures especially since there are not the mechanized equipment to harvest most of the crops that he describes. And I also found it disappointing that he basically said agriculture will never be profitable so how in the world are we really going to convince ppl to transform production? The labor factor is huge and needs to be addressed.