Designing Your Perennial Farm – Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard


“Mark Shepard, manager of New Forest Farms and author of the book Restoration Agriculture, will offer a critique of annual crop-based staple food production, while laying the ecological framework and reasons for designing a perennial staple food crops farm.

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Polyculture and Agroforestry

Forest gardening, polyculture and agroforestry are all closely related.
Forest gardening, polyculture and agroforestry are all closely related.

“Polyculture is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping.

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