THE FAMILY FARM

Yeomans and the City Forest.

If my analysis of the landscape design of Nature; of soil and landscape processes, and of the bastardisation of agriculture, are correct; the only answer to the depravity and destruction of our environment and for the consequent inhumanity of society is a re-union of mankind with the natural landscape and the ways of Nature.

Firstly, it is proposed that the City Forest be the major step for the cities; secondly; all country towns should be redesigned to include their own City Forest in preparation for increased population, and thirdly, there is THE FAMILY FARM, and the redesign of the whole farming landscape. Fourthly is the need for the creation of new cities.

It was stated in Chapter 2, "the farm was and still remains the most critically important landscape of man." THE MOST IMPORTANT LAND ON EARTH FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL AND THE WELFARE OF MANKIND, COULD WELL BE THE FAMILY FARMS--THE PRIMARY COMMUNITY UNITS LIVING IN HARMONY WITH LANDSCAPE! The important people are the rebel farmers who have not been bastardised and who have stuck to the healthy and meaningful way of working with their soil and of farming with Nature.

CONTENTS

Foreword

1.   H. E. R

2.  The Proposition

3.  The Landscape Design of Nature (1)

4.  The Landscape Design of Nature (2)

5.  The Fragment Between

6.  Design for Environment

7.  Design a New City

8.  Review the New City

9.  To Clean a City

10. Soil Sense

11. Soil and Trees

12. Water the Forest

13. The Desert Rain Forest

14. The Bastardisation of Agriculture

15. Water, Life or Death

16. The Family Farm

Afterword by Allan Yeomans

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