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Integrated Backyard Homesteading: Feeding yourself, your Family and your Community

Course Logo here. Design and create an abundant home- scale food production system that has the resiliency of a natural ecosystem. Explore permaculture and ecological design practices to develop regenerative, self-maintained human systems modeled from natural ecosystems.

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Integrated Backyard Homesteading: Feeding yourself, your Family and your Community

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  1. Course Logo here Design and create an abundant home-scale food production systemthat has the resiliency of a natural ecosystem. Explore permaculture and ecological design practices to develop regenerative, self-maintained human systems modeled from natural ecosystems. Integrated Backyard Homesteading:Feeding yourself, your Family and your Community Instructor: Lydia L. Silva is a certified permaculture designer and adjunct professor at Suffolk University, Boston Architectural College and the University of MA, Amherst, where she teaches Permaculture Design.

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  3. COURSE OBJECTIVES • Apply the methods and principles of permaculture design to create an integrated backyard homestead design. • Discover regenerative approaches to building soil fertility, managing water sustainably and creating perennial food production systems. • Set measurable goals for your own home food production system, including an assessment of caloric needs, potential crop yields and budget considerations.

  4. People Care Fair Share Earth Care The three ethics of earth care, people care, and fair share inform our design choices as we consider innovative design solutions throughout the course! The food forest swale is designed to catch water flowing off of the hillside. Capturing this resource flow provides irrigation and nutrient flows to the Fruit Tree Polyculture planted on the downhill berm.

  5. What does homesteading mean to you? How much food will you require to support your needs and those of your family? How can you design integrated, low maintenance homestead systems so that the system provides multiple yields with very low inputs of labor and materials? This course will help you answer these questions and develop an understanding of the patterns you can use to creatively solve challenges that arise • Module 1 • Goals Articulation, Base Mapping, Watersheds, Permaculture Design Process, Zones and Sector Analysis • Module 2 • Site Analysis, Landform and Topography, Water Management, Reading the Landscape and Patterns in Nature, Permaculture Principles • Module 3 • Soil Rehabilitation, Soil Testing, Calculating Food Needs and Yields, Animal Husbandry, Analysis of Vegetation and Wildlife • Module 4 • Plant Propagation, Preserving the Harvest, Pattern Language, Scale of Permanence, Microclimate analysis • Module 5 • Forest Gardening, Carbon Farming, Plant Selection, Appropriate Technology, Cottage Industries on the Backyard Farm Module 6 Final Design Project, Designing Plant Polycultures, Building Resilient Communities

  6. Go beyond the notion of self-sufficiency by cultivating diverse food systems and building community resilience networks.

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