This course focuses on land use systems for achieving self-reliance by integrating cultivated ecosystems, permaculture design techniques and agroforestry practices. Topics include establishing and maintaining medicinal and edible food forests; animals and insects in permaculture systems; wildlife management and agroforestry practices including windbreaks, hedgerows and alley cropping, silvo pasture, riparian buffers and forest farming. A lab explores practical elements plant guild assembly, orchard design, forest management, animal husbandry and beekeeping.