Ben Falk (permaculturalist)

Ben Falk
Education	University of Vermont (BA) Conway School of Landscape Design (MA)

Ben Falk is an American permaculturalist, landscape architect, homesteader, and author.^[1][2]

Based in Vermont, Falk owns Whole Systems Design, a landscape and infrastructure studio in Moretown.^[3][4][5] The firm has conducted landscape planning for the Island School in the Bahamas, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.^[6][7][8] Falk has pioneered the cultivation of rice in cold climate agricultural settings.^[9][10]

Works

• The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (2013)^[11]

Winner of the American Horticultural Society 2014 Book Award https://ahsgardening.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Chronological-list-of-award-winners.pdf

• The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition: 20 Years of Permaculture and Whole Systems Design (2024)^[12]

References

1. "Ben Falk '05". The Conway School. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
2. "Two Maine farmers try a new crop: rice". Press Herald. 2014-06-08. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
3. "Whole Systems Design". Whole Systems Design. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
4. Clark, Audrey (2013-06-30). "Biologist Amy Seidl says humans can adjust to warmer world". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
5. Kamenetz, Anya (May 1, 2008). "Promised Land". Fast Company.
6. Walsh, Dylan (2011-08-02). "Prisons, Then Parks: A Therapeutic Journey". Green Blog. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
7. "Project — Cape Eleuthera Institute". Whole Systems Design. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
8. "Project — Hotchkiss Farm". Whole Systems Design. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
9. "Rice". www.uvm.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
10. "Rural Futures". CBC Radio. December 27, 2013.
11. Falk, Ben; Murphy, Cornelius (2013). The resilient farm and homestead: an innovative permaculture and whole systems design approach. White River Junction, Vt: Chelsea Green Pub. ISBN 978-1-60358-444-9.
12. Falk, Ben (2024). The resilient farm and homestead: 20 years of permaculture and whole systems design (Revised and expanded ed.). White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 978-1-64502-111-7.