Adaptive vs. Prescriptive Management For Homesteads And Lifestyle Design ~Epi-070
Adaptive Management: Observation-driven management for constantly increasing resilience and ecosystem function by employing planned, purposeful disruption. Prescriptive Management: Labeling your observations so that you can look up a prescription that fits that label. This is a much more myopic way of managing a landscape, as you’re automatically confining yourself to pre-existing solutions for truly unique problems…
Silvopasture – Sustainable Food Systems For The Era Of Energy Descent
Silvopasture is one type of agroforestry system, which is a catch-all term for managing multi-species tree-based systems for the production of valuable products (food, fiber, fodder, fuels, timber, medicine and more), often in concert with livestock and annual or perennial crops. There are six main types of agroforestry practices, between which there can be considerable…