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The Permaculture Research Digest has summaries of newly published permaculture-related research. All items are hyper-linked to the original publication.
The 'January 2013' archive contains 60 items published in 2012.
Items marked with a # have restricted public access, although abstracts are freely available.
We visited 36 permaculture farms in the United States and gathered
multidimensional data on the distribution of labor and income, along with sociodemographic information and
farm characteristics. Using developed a preliminary typology of
U.S. permaculture farms. Farms were predominantly small in scale, with a
high proportion of young farmers, new farmers, and new farms, when
compared with national figures. Diversity of farm-based income was high
for enterprises and across seasons. Cluster analysis based on sources of
income produced a preliminary typology with five categories: small
mixed annual and perennial cropping, integrated production, a mix of production and services, animal base , and service base.
Our research suggests that permaculture farms are using a familiar set of strategies,
including non-production enterprises, in order to develop and maintain
diversified agroecosystems.
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