Brett McLeod is seen with horses on his woodland homestead in Vermontville. (Provided photo)

KEENE — The Adirondack Land Trust will host a free virtual event on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 7 to 8 p.m., where Brett McLeod will share his experiences with a woodland homestead, making land productive and living more self-sufficiently.

“How an individual cares for land has an impact on the overall health of our ecosystems and our communities,” said Adirondack Land Trust Conservation Program Director Chris Jage. “Brett’s hands-on experience balancing human needs, forest condition and soil health will get us all thinking about what we can do in our own backyard.”

McLeod will share his endeavors to create a 25-acre woodland homestead in the rugged Adirondack Mountains. He began this project in 2004 with a plan scratched into the mud, gradually building a small, diversified farm that produces vegetables, fruit, syrup, livestock and lumber for shelter, fences and firewood.

Registration for the event is at adirondacklandtrust.org/event/woodland-homestead.

“Woodland homesteading shows us the power of what’s possible with our own two hands and a scrap of land,” McLeod said. “Everything I do can be shrunken down in scale and put into practice. You may not have a woodland orchard, but you could have a fruit tree.”

McLeod is a professor of forestry at Paul Smith’s College and the author of “The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods.” He likes to relax by reading a good book or chopping wood.