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?

Module 2: Your Living 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

Lesson 3: Maintaining Your Septic System
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 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 4: Starting Over: Pasture Establishment and Renovation

Module 6: Don't Forget the Animals
Lesson 1: So You Want to Be an Owner

Lesson 2: Caring for Your Animals
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?

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)

donaldson@unce.unr.edu