Ben Falk (permaculturalist)

Ben Falk is an American permaculturalist, landscape architect, homesteader, and author.[1][2]

Ben Falk
EducationUniversity of Vermont (BA)
Conway School of Landscape Design (MA)

Based in Vermont, Falk owns Whole Systems Design, a landscape and infrastructure studio in Moretown.[3][4][5] The firm has conducted landscape planning for the Island School in the Bahamas, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.[6][7] Falk has pioneered the cultivation of rice in cold climate agricultural settings.[8][9]

Works edit

  • The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (2013)[10]

Winner of the American Horticultural Society 2014 Book Award https://ahsgardening.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Chronological-list-of-award-winners.pdf

  • The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition: 20 Years of Permaculture and Whole Systems Design (2024)

References edit

  1. ^ "Ben Falk '05". The Conway School. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  2. ^ "Two Maine farmers try a new crop: rice". Press Herald. 2014-06-08. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  3. ^ "Whole Systems Design". Whole Systems Design. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  4. ^ Clark, Audrey (2013-06-30). "Biologist Amy Seidl says humans can adjust to warmer world". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  5. ^ Kamenetz, Anya (May 1, 2008). "Promised Land". Fast Company.
  6. ^ "Project — Cape Eleuthera Institute". Whole Systems Design. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  7. ^ "Project — Hotchkiss Farm". Whole Systems Design. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  8. ^ "Rice". www.uvm.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  9. ^ "Rural Futures". CBC Radio. December 27, 2013.
  10. ^ Falk, Ben; Murphy, Cornelius (2013). The resilient farm and homestead: an innovative permaculture and whole systems design approach. White River Junction, Vt: Chelsea Green Pub. ISBN 978-1-60358-444-9.