Living on the Land-Stewardship for Small Acreages
LIVING ON THE LAND WEBSITE
Small -acreage landowners have a significant impact on the conditon of soil, water, plants and other natural resouces through their cumulative effects and inexperience. This curriculum will help you guide your small -acreage audience in developing a sustainable management plan for their properties.
Below are the contents for the Living on the Land Curriculum.
INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE
Module 1: Setting the Stage: Inventorying Resoruces
Lesson 1: What Do You Have and What Do You Want?
Turning Dreams Into Reality
Lesson 2: What Can You Do?
Lesson 1: What Do You Have and What Do You Want?
Turning Dreams Into Reality
Lesson 2: What Can You Do?
Module 2: Your Living Soil
Lesson 1: Getting Down and DIrty with Soil
Lesson 1: Getting Down and DIrty with Soil
Lesson 2: Managing Soil to Keep It Productive
Lesson 3: Got Water? (Irrigation)
Module 3:
All Life Depends on Water
Lesson 1: Water Quality: Making the Connection Between You
and the Water.
Lesson 2: Protecting Household Drinking Water
and the Water.
Lesson 2: Protecting Household Drinking Water
Lesson 3: Maintaining Your Septic System
Lesson 4: My Place on a Stream
Lesson 4: My Place on a Stream
Lesson 5: So You Think You Wand a Pond?
Module 4:
Living with Wildlife
Lesson 1: Understanding and Reducing the Wildfire Threat
Lesson 1: Understanding and Reducing the Wildfire Threat
Lesson 2:
When Fire Occurs
Module 5:
Love Your Grass as Much as Your Animals
Lesson 1: How Grass Grows
Lesson 2: Managing Grazing for Sustainable Pastures
Lesson 3: What to Do About Weeds
Lesson 1: How Grass Grows
Lesson 2: Managing Grazing for Sustainable Pastures
Lesson 3: What to Do About Weeds
Lesson 4: Starting Over: Pasture Establishment and Renovation
Module 6:
Don't Forget the Animals
Lesson 1: So You Want to Be an Owner
Lesson 1: So You Want to Be an Owner
Lesson 2: Caring for Your Animals
Lesson 3: Managing Wildlife
Lesson 3: Managing Wildlife
Module 7:
So You Want to Make a Buck?
Lesson 1: Marketing and Economics for Small-acreage Properties
Lesson 2: Production: It's All About Systems
Lesson 3: Can You Make It Work?
Lesson 1: Marketing and Economics for Small-acreage Properties
Lesson 2: Production: It's All About Systems
Lesson 3: Can You Make It Work?
Module 8: Tying It Together: The Whole-property Approach
Lesson 1: Focusing on Stewardship for Long-term Sustainability
For further information contact
Susan Donaldson
775-784-4848
775-784-4881(fax)