The Resilient Farm and Homestead

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1. xctr94Oct 2023
   I’ve lots on my e-reader, but I keep going back to Ben Falk. “The Resilient Farm and Homestead” is super cool, you actually follow their story over multiple years, with the farm’s changes rather well documented! Of course the more scientific books on the topic are better information-wise — some used at uni —, but Falk’s is nice to read.
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2. gdubsApr 2020
   “Restoration Agriculture” by Mark Shepard is a great book. It’s about his project, “New Forest Farm”, and is heavily influenced by Permaculture. He pulls from a lot of references like “One Straw Revolution”, etc, with a heavy focus on agroforestry (where tree crops and more traditional crops are grown in a mixed system).

   “The Resilient Farm and Homestead”, by Ben Falk is another great one — full of illustrations and practical ideas (like using a compost pile to power a radiant heat system.)

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3. KerrickJan 2026
   > We should also remember that current token pricing is almost certainly subsidized. These patterns may not be economically viable for long. And those discounted coding plans we’re all on? They might not last either.

   In The Resilient Farm and Homestead by Ben Falk, you'll find a sidebar on page 28: Oil to Soil--Use it or Lose It: Leveraging the Cheap-Oil Window for Maximum Effect. He says, "we have made the conscious decision to take advantage of the small window of time still remaining with which to develop intergenerational land and infrastructure systems, which greatly enables long-term production of the site without any oil input for hundreds if not thousands of years."

   I think of subsidized LLM tokens like this. Use them to build developer tools. Ideally, these developer tools will work with and without further LLM use. Then it won't matter if token prices fall forever, or if the subsidies end and nobody can afford AI-assisted development.

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