May, 2008

WSD Featured on Reality Sandwich's Eco Blog

A more in-depth piece on Teal Farm and WSD's work than the Fast Company article...

"Perpetual agriculture at Teal Farm looks less like the monoculture fields of traditional agriculture and more like an enhanced wilderness. In place of "conventional organic farming" – monocrops with intensive, albeit natural, fertilizer and pesticide inputs – permaculture transforms the entire landscape and puts in "guilds" of different plants that work together to support each other and enhance the soil. Food comes from orchards, gardens, ponds, bogs, annual vegetable and seed gardens, hedges and terraced hillsides. Nitrogen-fixing plants, crop rotation, and grazing animals will restore the soil; Food will be dried and preserved on site, seeds saved, and new varieties introduced..." 

May, 2008

Vermont Commons Journal Interviews Ben Falk

"...However, the climate’s already changing, it always has, and it will continue to
change, sometimes radically, even without human influence. How do we
design for this?..."

April, 2008

Fast Company Magazine Features WSD

"...Falk and his network of young University of Vermont graduates are not traditional environmentalists. In fact, he calls mainstream environmentalism, with its "nihilistic," minimize-human-impact approach..."

May 20, 2007

Burlington News Weekly Highlights WSD's Culinary Earthwork

"...One exciting way to expand the number of local species is to fashion microclimates in which the prevailing temperature is different from that of surrounding areas. Creating windbreaks of nut-bearing trees and using passive solar landscape design — where water and rocks capture the sun's rays and pass the warmth to the ground — are two options. "It can be 70 degrees [in one small area] when it's 40 degrees elsewhere,..."