Trees
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Intensive Silvopasture – a Win-Win for Carbon and Yield
I don’t have rights to a photo of intensive silvopasture, but in this image we have high density of leucaena…
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Reforesting With Goats
Photos: Ingrid Pullen At Zaytuna Farm we have been using our Boer meat goats to fast-track the weed-tree-infested forested valleys’…
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When Engineers Grow Food Forests (TED video)
Dr. Akira Miyawaki has a job many of us would enjoy — planting forests on degraded land. He once was…
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Sheep Vegetation Management in British Columbia, Canada
Permaculture principle #11: Use edges and value the marginal. The interface between things is where the most interesting events take…
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Alihuen: An Agrarian Conservation Story (Chile)
Click the ‘CC’ button to choose subtitles (English and French available) Alihuen means big tree in the language of the…
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Accidental Propagation, For the Best in Gardening (Panama)
Many of the most successful gardens we’ve propagated have been as much luck and accident as they have been my…
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Oh, The Beds I’ve Made: No-Till Gardening in Tropical Panama
One of the most exciting parts of taking the reins to a hectare of lakeside land in Panama was planning…
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Giant Tree Is So Massive It’s Never Been Captured In A Single Image. Until Now.
Cloaked in the snows of California’s Sierra Nevada, the 3,200-year-old giant sequoia called the President rises 247 feet (75.3 meters).…
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Low-Tech Natural Nursery Strategies (Washington, USA)
When most people think about nurseries and plant propagation, they conjure up rows and rows of black pots and the…
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Air Pruning (video)
Here is an interesting and simple-to-manage technique that will promote better root growth for your potted plants. It can be…
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New Trees in Guatemala That Are Not Just for Reforestation
Special bicycle for shelling coffee beans It sounds strange to speak of poverty as an exciting opportunity, but many of…
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Winter Pruning Techniques: Spur-Bearing Fruit Trees
I’ve always been a bit confused about proper pruning techniques. You’ve got your winter pruning for spur-bearing fruit trees, winter…
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