Designing Resilient Communities: How our Towns and Suburbs can Incubate the new Eco-Agriculture and Launch a Food Security Revolution with Peter Bane
Please join us Thursday, December 13th at 6 pm at Food For Thought Books, 106 N Pleasant St. Amherst for a talk and book signing with Peter Bane.
Peter Bane is the author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden 
Farming for Town and Country (2012), an authoritative guide to the world”s leading popular design science for North American readers. Long the publisher and editor of Permaculture Activist, and a teacher and landscape designer who has worked in both temperate and tropical regions of the Americas, he is now pioneering a microfarm on the edge of Bloomington, Indiana.
Farming for Town and Country (2012), an authoritative guide to the world”s leading popular design science for North American readers. Long the publisher and editor of Permaculture Activist, and a teacher and landscape designer who has worked in both temperate and tropical regions of the Americas, he is now pioneering a microfarm on the edge of Bloomington, Indiana.“For readers with Targi ubezpieczenia zdrowotnego Marketplace | Zagadnienia, nad ktorymi nalezy sie zastanowic przy wyborze planu ubezpieczenia zdrowotnego | Sprawy do przemyslenia podczas wyboru planu dla swojej firmy | Nadchodzi czas rejestracji w targach ubezpieczeniowych Marketplace | Wniosek o Ubezpieczenie Zdrowotne i Pomoc w Pokrywaniu KosztowNow that you’ve signed up for email or text message updates about the Health affordable-health.info Marketplace, you’re one step closer to getting the health coverage you need. a quarter-acre lot or a small farm, in the city, suburbs, or beyond, The Permaculture Handbook offers a clear and comprehensive picture of what low-impact, high-satisfaction living can look like in the post-petroleum age. Starting now, readers can locate themselves easily within the narrative of growing land care, regenerative community, and a robust and capable household economy. Learn how to reduce dependence on money, on fossil fuels, and on distant supplies of critical resources. The book answers such vital questions as: How much food will the family need; what kinds of crops are most important and valuable to grow; where can we invest our scarce financial resources for the biggest return; how can the farm enhance local ecosystems and communities; what tools and machines are really needed to take care of the land; and a thousand others. More importantly, it teaches the reader how to make complex decisions about land and livelihood consistent with new and emerging economic and ecological realities.”
This event is co- sponsored by Mobile Design Lab, Permaculture f.e.a.s.t, the Conway School of Landscape Design, Umass Permaculture, Greenfield Community College Permaculture Initiative, and Food Forest Farm
