I'm not sure where you are located, but I've been trying to pearn about such topics from my uncles who have a dairy farm. They have a 1983 copy of the book found at
http://www.mwps.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=c_Products.viewProduct&catID=710&productID=9573&skunumber=MWPS%2D1&crow=8 This book covers anything from laying areas out for ease of use and making sure animals have what they need to placing things in relation to roads for visability and how snow fences work. There are other things on the site and I think one is on the farmsteading category is a cheaper cd just for planning a ffarmstead. I'm fairly new to the idea of wanting to do something like this in a permaculture way, so I'm not sure how much that affects layouts and such like this.
This may not be helpful in narrowing down your list, but hoping maybe it will clarify the subject a bit for me as well. So my question is, sometimes it seems like permaculture is just cramming a homestead or farmstead onto as small an area as possible and making every planting and usage of space count by making things productive in multiple ways and trying to do it without chemicals or turning it into a factory farm of some sort either.... is this an accurate way to think of it?
