The Adirondack Land Trust will host a free virtual event on Wednesday, February 26, from 7 until 8 pm, ET, in which Brett McLeod will share his experiences with a woodland homestead, making land productive, and living more self-sufficiently.
“How an individual cares for land has an impact on the overall health of our ecosystems and our communities,” said Adirondack Land Trust Conservation Program Director Chris Jage. “Brett’s hands-on experience balancing human needs, forest condition, and soil health will get us all thinking about what we can do in our own backyard.”
McLeod will share his endeavors to create a 25-acre woodland homestead in the rugged Adirondack Mountains. He began this project in 2004 with a plan scratched into the mud, gradually building a small, diversified farm that produces vegetables, fruit, syrup, livestock, and lumber for shelter, fences, and firewood.
“Woodland homesteading shows us the power of what’s possible with our own two hands and a scrap of land,” says McLeod. “Everything I do can be shrunken down in scale and put into practice. You may not have a woodland orchard, but you could have a fruit tree.”
McLeod is a professor of forestry at Paul Smith’s College and the author of The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods.
You can sign-up for this free virtual event online here.
Illustration: Brett McLeod with horses on his woodland homestead in Vermontville, NY (provided).
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