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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Transition Forest Gardens Part 2: Alley Cropping

Alley cropping agroforestry on degraded land: combine forest gardening, food crops and large numbers of soil building trees and plants into terraced gardens.
Alley cropping agroforestry on degraded land: combine forest gardening, food crops and large numbers of soil building trees and plants into terraced gardens.

In my first blog post about Transition Forest Gardens I outlined some of my ideas about how to make a forest garden on degraded land. Today’s blog post covers some of my newest ideas for a transition forest garden.

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