News/Press
Happy Spring...
Bud break and leaf out arrive at the Whole Systems Research Farm and spring site development is underway at our Vermont sites in Barnard, Vershire, Warren, Waitsfield, Moretown, Burlington, Worcester and New Haven. We're also continuing master planning work and consulting on projects further afield in East Hampton, NY, Lakeville CT, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Bronx, NYC. The spring is looking to be especially busy with the development of post-peak oil land and infrastructure systems and perennial food systems installation across Vermont, new training program developments across our central Vermont sites, a half dozen presentations and ongoing site design work. The following items are some of the latest happenings here at WSD. Please also see the selected projects page for additional listings. Also, check out our new workshop program here.
June 2010
Northern Woodlands just featured WSD in their recent issue focusing on "Wild Farms" that work at the 
intersection of field and forest land use.
;)
intersection of field and forest land use.June 2010
Our master planning and site developments in Barnard VT are coming along at an historic homestead. We've planted a post-oil food system with orchard, nuttery, berries (from currants to blueberries), vegetables, and a rice paddy, along with gravity feed (non electric) water systems for house and landscape and ponds/pools. Next up is a sauna next to the new pond and a pergola for outdoor eating with hardy kiwis growing above. 
April 2010
Design work continues on new projects in Sag Harbor, New York and at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. WSD develops a master plan with a private client in Sag Harbor/East Hampton Long Island focused on perennial and nutrient dense food systems and site planning for a future agri-tourism and local food destination. The Hotchkiss School contracted WSD to develop a conceptual master plan for communicating the possibilties for developing and involving students at a new farm site recently purchased by the school.
March 15th 2010
Mother Earth News Features WSD
Fuelwood security garners exposure in the national press. Our perpetual fuelwood hedge development work mentioned in the latest Mother Earth News here.
February 7th 2010
Whole Systems Skills Launched
10 years in the making, a learning organization takes form to train and share tools and techniques needed to respond to the unprecedented challenges of the early 21st Century including peak oil, climate change, economic impossibility and other resource system failure. Please click below to view the workshops. Click HERE if your browser doesn't show a viewable graphic above.
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..."
Read the online article here
November 7th 2009
Rice Paddy Installation and end of Summer
[Double rice paddy trials and production area for 2010]
[Double rice paddy trials and production area for 2010]
[Wine cap stropharia growing in fruit tree groves]
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