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Publishers Weekly- "Jadrnicek, a farmer, educator (he teaches at and oversees Clemson University’s organic student farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains), and perpetually tinkering designer and inventor, implements the permaculture principle of 'stacking functions’―'Every component of a design should function in many ways'―and pushes its limits. 'Something very special happens when a component within the design exceeds seven functions,’ he writes. 'Once the odd magic number of seven is breached, the design takes on a life of its own.' With curiosity, imagination, and exuberant obsession, he shares his successful manifestations and ongoing experiments and shows readers how to implement them in their own agricultural pursuits, whether a market farm or steep urban yard. He provides both broad conceptual overviews and comprehensive specifics. Less committed growers may balk at the complexity of these living designs and the basic physics, chemistry, and algebra needed to realize them, but permies and others committed to developing a regenerative agriculture―as well as ambitious weekend gardeners dreaming of an in-town, self-sufficient aquaculture greenhouse―will likely be impatient to try it themselves.â€â€œThe Bio-Integrated Farm provides practical solutions for farmers and homesteaders facing the dual challenges of sustainably feeding an expanding global population and building resilience into their systems in response to climate disruption. Shawn Jadrnicek’s designs for greenhouses, irrigation, composting systems, and more are based on the most enduring answer: let’s look to nature. From experience, Jadrnicek knows how to create organic, resilient, and highly productive systems based on creative use of water, solar energy, and other free forces of nature.â€--Courtney White, author of Two Percent Solutions for the Planet“The Bio-Integrated Farm is an invaluable resource for market farmers, homesteaders, and serious gardeners who are interested in improving their relationship with the land. Shawn Jadrnicek’s creative use of materials, animals, and space, which he clearly and thoroughly explains in this book, will inspire and teach you how to improve the efficiency and resiliency of your farm or garden. I can’t wait to implement some of Shawn’s designs at my site. While reading through this book, I was reminded of the ancient gardening techniques mentioned in F.H. King’s Farmers of Forty Centuries. Shawn has integrated these simple and effective technologies into his modern-day working farm; his book will allow readers to access some of that ancient wisdom, too.â€--Jerome Osentowski, author of The Forest Garden Greenhouse“Harvesting, multiplying, capturing, conveying, sloping, fertilizing, irrigating, heating, cooling… ‘at least seven functions’ is the genius of Shawn Jadrnicek’s stacked systems in The Bio-Integrated Farm. Shawn turns almost everything we think we know about farming on its head, beginning with the notion that the odds are stacked against the small farmer and permaculturist. Instead, he stacks the odds in our favor by requiring every component of a farm to serve at least seven functions. These stacked systems create biological and mechanical efficiencies that maximize production and ecological diversity. While innovators abound in the permaculture world, Shawn is unparalleled in the practicality and detail of his innovative designs. As a connoisseur of college farms, I’ve visited several dozen such operations across the United States, and I have yet to see another academic farm demonstrate the level of careful design and innovation found on the Clemson University Student Organic Farm, one of several permaculture masterworks Shawn has helped create. As much an engineer as he is an ecologist, Shawn teases out nature’s secret systems with a covey of collaborators―students, prawns, soldier flies, chickens, and thermophilic bacteria to name but a few―and he shares all his best designs in this paradigm-altering guide. Be prepared to have your vision of a farm’s limits shattered. Fear not, Shawn shows you how to reassemble those broken pieces into a ‘7-plus mosaic’ that can take any homestead or farm to the next level.â€--Philip Ackerman-Leist, professor, Green Mountain College; author of Rebuilding the Foodshed“What is unique about permaculture, at its heart, is integration of elements like fish ponds, greenhouses, chickens, and crops. The Bio-Integrated Farm highlights real-world farm management experiences, including particularly innovative practices such as raising freshwater shrimp in greenhouse tanks that also provide thermal mass. The authors also respect and acknowledge the ancient roots of many of these ideas.â€--Eric Toensmeier, author of The Carbon Farming Solution“Nature knows no waste, and cutting-edge farmers should start today to incorporate the bio-integration principles that Shawn Jadrnicek describes in detail in this book. Shawn shares his in-the-field experience using easy-to-understand formulas and charts to encourage the reader to develop a plan and translate project descriptions into hardworking results. I have seen Shawn’s transformational power in person at Clemson University, and his visions are addictive, teaching you not just to think outside the box by harmonizing natural systems but to act outside the box to create inexpensive and highly functional growing environments that are much more profitable and efficient than traditional growing systems. Even at our mushroom farm, we are incorporating Shawn’s design approach with aquaponics, black soldier fly composting, and passive heating. Farmers need all the financial help they can get, and The Bio-Integrated Farm will help readers prevent costly experimental failures. Every farm's needs and layouts are unique, and this book allows the reader to customize and hybridize systems that harness the power of nature to transform ordinary farms into models worthy of world-class learning centers for permaculture.â€--Tradd Cotter, author of Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation“As climate change drives increasingly challenging weather variability and extremes, ecosystem-based strategies such as those presented in The Bio-Integrated Farm will be crucial to successful adaptation efforts. In this practical, clearly written, and beautifully designed book, Shawn Jadrnicek shares his unique ability to conceptualize, design, and manage water for whole-system benefits at multiple scales. A must read for anyone interested in design and management of water systems for resilient homesteads and farms.â€--Laura Lengnick, author of Resilient Agriculture“Shawn Jadrnicek has spent the last decade getting his hands dirty and taking risks, experimenting with how to create systems that actually work. The Bio-Integrated Farm covers areas often neglected in the current permaculture literature. Shawn's systems-based designs show permaculture's relevance beyond typical gardening scenarios. He offers a load of detailed practical advice based on personal experience, demonstrating how to make connections that result in greater yields and ease. His zeal for making the most out of the resources on hand has inspired to me to find ways to further integrate my own permaculture homestead!â€--Rain Tenaqiya, author of West Coast Food Forestry
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About the Author
Shawn Jadrnicek has nourished his interest in sustainability through work as an organic farmer, nursery grower, extension agent, arborist, and landscaper, and now as the manager of Clemson University’s Student Organic Farm. From his earliest permaculture experiments with no-till farming in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California to his highly functional bio-integrated designs in the Southeast, Shawn has learned how to cultivate food in a variety of climates and landscapes. He shares his creative solutions through teaching, consulting, and design work.
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Product details
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (March 3, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603585885
ISBN-13: 978-1603585880
Product Dimensions:
8 x 0.8 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
46 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#57,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is an interesting book. It is packed full of clever ideas, but you better love plastic. It's everywhere. Also, you better love plumbing, pumps, and digging trenches. It spends much of its efforts giving the reader some real-world examples and advice. It clearly doesn't expect the reader to implement all or even most of the ideas, but I am confident that there are a few things just about anybody could apply to their situation, weather you are a suburbanite, urbanite, or a rural dweller.I was surprised by the extensiveness of instruction in chicken and pond fish rearing. I think this book would be a decent chicken primer, though not as thorough as Harvey Ussery's book. But one must realize that most of the advice and the schemes in this book are all very site specific. For example, his chicken coop wouldn't be nearly large enough in most of this country where weather gets cold enough a few or more weeks per year that chickens must be protected in a shelter. Also, I was surprised that he feels that bleach washing eggs is a given. From my perspective washing eggs is needed because of a defect in the management, usually putting too many chickens in too small of a coop or too few of roost boxes or not changing the bedding frequently enough.The book is very upbeat, enthusiastic, and friendly while not condescending, arrogant and self-congratualtory. When there is insufficient information, the reader is at least pointed in the right direction via a reference, but usually there is enough information to actually accomplish many of the projects in the book. Like all Chelsea Green books it is well produced, has an index, and is generally attractive.Why not five stars? Because, like many books of its kind, it is mis-titled in my opinion. The projects in this book are so capital intensive (basically all the plastic, plumbing, structures, and ground work) that it demands very intensive, high profit growing to break even. The intensity is far greater that what most Americans would expect on a "farm." And I am not so sure the vast quantities of plastic (liners, barrels, pipe, etc.) and frequent reliance on pumps and engines are really all that bio-integrated. I honestly believe that a more extensive (the opposite of intensive), but equally thoughtful, agriculture is more bio-friendly if you want to put it that way. Getting animals to feed themselves, food to grow itself, and agricultural systems to operate with minimal material or energetic inputs (rather management or decision making inputs) is more bio-integrated in my opinion. It might take a bit more land, however.
This is the most fascinating book I have. The density of information is the highest I can imagine. I bought this book to study systems theory, and systems of systems. I've only read a few dozen pages skipping around but it is exactly what I've been looking for, a real-world system documented. This appears to be a textbook written by Clemson University SC. It contains years of experience of their Agriculture department with acres of greenhouses, ponds, and gardens. Expect it to take several months to read it and perhaps a year to re-read it and turn it into your own knowledge and experience.
This is a great book. I read a review about in on the Temperate Climate Permaculture site. I was impressed with the site, so I checked out the book. The author has lived and worked in Santa Cruz, CA, the southeast coast of the US, and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He has incorporated many design innovations such as water catchment land features to help catch runoff, inside the greenhouse ponds, seed start trays that float on the pond so you do not have to water them, and harvesting minnows for chicken feed. It will expand your mind.
For those like me wanting to start a permaculture farm, this book is one of the best out. Very informative well written and can give the novice like me all the info needed to start.
This is a very well-written book on how to actually implement Permaculture principles (especially stacking functions). This book tells you exactly how to do tons of really useful stuff, like building ponds (inside and outside of greenhouses), find out if a proposed building site will be shaded at any point during the year, the exact distance to build your pond from your house to maximize the amount of sunlight reflected in the winter and minimize the same in the summer, and tons of more super useful things. There are lots of formulas for very specific calculations that I found very helpful. When you are trying to plan a farm or homestead, you want to KNOW (not be guessing) that what you are about to do will work--and this book will help you do that. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to implement Permaculture principles on their land.
Just what I was looking for. My favorite permaculture book. This was the most comprehensive of any I have seen, but each seem to add to the other.I wish I had this information years ago. I don't know how you could go wrong with it.
Awesome book, with tons of ideas and suggestions. Definitely a lot of info, but explained in an easy to follow manner. If you're looking to start a homestead I would suggest picking it up to have on hand and to help plan.
This book is very informative. It was purchased for a college class but we will keep it forever.
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