Designing Your Perennial Farm - Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard

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Mark Shepard, manager of New Forest Farms and author of the book Restoration Agriculture, will offer a critique of annual crop-based staple food production, while laying the ecological framework and reasons for designing a perennial staple food crops farm. You will gain the basic skills to begin the transition from annuals to a permanent, perennial agriculture incorporating everything from nuts and berries, to livestock and fruits and vegetables. Shepard’s talk will introduce the concept of ecosystem mimicry, Keyline water management and will help you to chart a path forward to a truly ecologically designed farm. This was presented by Mark Shepard at PV1 in March 2014. Learn more and listen at permaculturevoices.com/podcast.

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I appreciate your skepticism and realism regarding human existence and progression. Thank you.

I am new to this. I want to raise several crops a year in green houses. Maybe I could raise blueberries and peaches which are popular in my area with other plants in the rows between the trees and shrubs.
For some reason a lot of people resist greenhouses. But I am new to this channel and movement. I am still in the planning stage for a farm.

I love this guy!! Mark, please visit my family's farm in Missouri (yep.) and convert my conventional uncle!! I want in!!
Thank you for your wonderful, accessible videos! And thank you for what you are doing for the Earth, for the big picture, and for all of us humans!
*you rock!

atmosphere farmers, guess we are farming chem-trails :|

Yeah man! Preach it! Got off my ass 5 years ago. My stake is in the ground, my trees are in the ground, pretty soon my shrubs will be in their final places and the anual component will start to shrink. I'm not moving, i'm not budging, i stay right here and build paradise. It's not my land but it is my fight. Who cares if you own the land or not. I agree with many native peoples, you can not own land and you can not do anything you want to it, simply because you 'own' it. This is the land of future generations and all the animals living on it.

Deeply appreciate Mark Shepard, and the many excellent points he makes. However, the annual crop farmers do take vacations- every year after the harvest is in. One of the supposed advantages of what is now known as conventional crop farming is that without animals, one can take a few days during the year off work, and an extended vacation during the off season.

D-I-E-G-O - THANK YOU for making these videos available! And for ~eveything~ you do.

Some of us eat like our ancestors- animal fats, fats from perenniel plants (cocount, tree nuts, olives and olive oil, avacado), animal proteins, and a lot of veg- much of it from perenniels, most of the rest integrated into the animal productions cycles. Other than the coconuts, olives, and avacados- the rest is produced locally, and using sustainable to regenerative methods. It can be done.
BTW, viewers may want to check out LCHF diets. Useful for losing weight while maintaining muscle mass, overcoming or living with insulin resistance/ pre-diabetic conditions, and also reduced inflammation, aka pain. Those on a high fat diet tend to find that they need and want MUCH less food, and many experience a range of additional benefits when they eat this way.

I'm 15 minutes in and wondering if I'm watching a conspiracy theory. Get talking about soil erosion already and perennial wheat. There is no perfect way to live, just ways of adapting.

Keep up the good work. And keep on singing.

lol stop eating that shit walk away from rome.

This "money where the mouth is" . I love it .

Thanks Mark, your guidance is priceless. My partner and I just got a small 5 acres piece of land, and will be applying many of your methods and ideas, and work it into our own design. This is the most realistic approach to influence the current flawed agricultural system to move forward and change its methodology. Great work and thanks again for sharing your story and knowledge!

I love this guy. Mark talks total pragmatism backed by real life experience. This is the real solution. Looking for my acreage right now. I am starting. Read Restoration Agriculture. Great book. Then ACT!