AGROFORESTRY COURSE | Lesson 5, Module 2 - Food Forests for Veggie Production | Food Forest COURSE |
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2020
- Our full Agroforestry Introduction Course will give you all the initial information you need in order to start developing your own agroforestry systems, and enjoy a higher production from your farm or garden, while improving your soil.
During the course, you will have access to 5 modules, where we will show you different Agroforestry systems, explain to you the basic principles behind it, show you some important techniques, and take you through the initial planting of a system. We will take you through all the steps, from preparing the soil, to covering the soil, to planting, AND we will keep you up-to-date on the development of the system planted during the course.
MODULE I - INTRODUCTION
• LESSON 1: Welcome (Meet the Agroforestry Academy crew)
• LESSON 2: Our goal with this course (What we want for you)
• LESSON 3: Why Agroforestry (What’s in it for you)
MODULE II - EXAMPLES OF SYSTEMS
• LESSON 4: Grass System (Food forests for grass production)
• LESSON 5:Vegetables Systems (Food forests for vegetables production)
• LESSON 6: Fruits Systems (Food forests for fruit production)
• LESSON 7: Coffee System (Food forests for coffee production)
• LESSON 8: Final Considerations (A few last words)
MODULE III - PRINCIPLES
• LESSON 9: Optimizing Resources and Energy (Getting the most from your resources)
• LESSON 10: Succession of species (Taking advantage of species with different life cycles)
• LESSON 11: Stratification (Working with a multi-layered system)
• LESSON 12: Planting in Abundance (Nature’s own strategy for genetic selection)
• LESSON 13: Adapting to a main crop (Designing and Managing your system to a specific crop)
• LESSON 14: Final considerations (A few last words)
MODULE IV - TECHNIQUES
• LESSON 15: Covering the soil (Put all that organic matter on the floor!)
• LESSON 16: Companion planting (When together, plants grow better)
• LESSON 17: Pruning (Keeping things nice and tidy)
• LESSON 18: Final Considerations
MODULE V - PRACTICE
• LESSON 19: Preparing the soil (Getting the beds of your seeds and seedlings nice and welcoming)
• LESSON 20: Trees row (Planting your Legacy)
• LESSON 21: System I - Roots (Cassava, taro and sweet potato)
• LESSON 22: System II - Vegetables (Carrots, cabbage, coriander, beets and much more)
• LESSON 23: System III - Coffee (Coffee plants in the under-story)
• LESSON 24: System IV - Grains and grass (Corn, beans and grass)
• LESSON 25: Final Considerations
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Awesome guys! Greetings from Australia.
This is well explained, nice synergy.
Amazing stuff guys, the more content I see from you, the happier I get!
Thank you for making these videos and modules. They are very helpful as I'm interested in transitioning jobs. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the other modules.
Bom trabalho!
I love it guys i run cattle in a cut and carry system so this is really encouraging
Loved the video, so much amazing information!!! Thanks guys
Our pleasure!
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Love the content!!!
Thank you a lot. I really enjoyed it. I would love to join your team :'D Looking forward to more content. Keep the work up!
Hey, thanks for the support!
It's very interesting to see how you combine the elephant grass with the veggie beds. Is the variety in the video a clumping grass or monoclonal? Here in Indonesia it's called alang-alang, and considered very aggressive and not combatible with vegetables, since it has a tendency to spread and pop up in your veggie bed. This video is opening my eyes to something new, and it's definitely something I will consider experimenting with. Thanks for the great content!
In Permaculture we say "chop and drop" to describe how you use banana. It's just a good term for describing the relationship
Das Krapital Yes, we use that term to. We just did a chop and drop video by the way =)
Can you please specify the orientation of the forest plants or beds? Do they run east to west or north to south?
Harsh Vardhan Thakur Hi, whenever possible, we do it north - south, as that allows for sunlight to enter the rows during the whole year. But you must always consider other factors such as slope and prevalent winds.
What if you can't grow bananas are leaves the next thing? I live in The Midwest of the US so I have grass for sure but leaves as well!
I would say that leave mulching would be good as well! There are probably certain support/biomass/nitrogen local species that you could include and promote in your design that occupy that same niche. The key is promoting the principles, the species and their management are going to vary depending on where we are on the planet! Contact www.forestag.com/, Mark Shepard's nursery, they probably may guide you to suited species on that region!
The important thing is to identify the top biomass producers in your region. For the tropica, banana plants are a no brainer. For your place, your grasses will certainly provide very decent organic matter, and you should also invest in fast growing, prune-friendly trees. Maybe prickly pear could be an interesting species for you as well
Sorry about my english. When your soil will be good, your grass in a high performance and your forest formed , you will put The animals in the forest?
That is definitely a possibility! There are systems we designed with that in mind, while others we design for cutting the grass and feeding to the animals, especially for horses.
bring up more videos please
Every Saturday!
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So long life cycle plants (1 year) are not supposed to be planted with short life cycle(2-3 months), is that right?
No sir, they ARE supposed to be planted with short cycle plants. We always take advantage of the different life cycle of plants in order to put them together, as the short cycle plants won't compete with the long cycle plants.
@@AgroforestryAcademy tks so much