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Restoration Agriculture:… the time is NOW!
PERMA (permanent)
(agri) CULTURE• “Permaculture is an ecological design methodology
where we create relationships between materials, plants, animals and humans in order to optimize function and yield. The aim is to create systems that are ecologically sound and economically profitable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute and are therefore sustainable in the long term. Much of the design is taken from nature. It can be as simple or as sophisticated as you like.”
(Bill Mollison)• (Permanent- Latin: per- throughout + manere- to remain; Culture- Middle English: cultivation,
tillage; from Old French; from Latin: cultura, from cultus- cultivation, from Germanic: skel- to cut)
Why Restoration Agriculture?
Search: Photos JR SIMPLOT CAFO Idaho
Identify your biome and keystone plant communities
Establish edible woody polycultures
Build fences & roads, utilities, pipelines
Transition using Agroforestry practices
Manage for eternity!
Earthworks/ water management
The Restoration Agriculture process:
Fagacea: Oak,Chestnut, Beech
Apples
Hazelnut
Prunus: plum, cherry,
peach
Raspberry, grape, currant
Forage, animals, fungi
Oak, Chestnut
Apples
Hazelnut
Prunus: Almonds, Cherries
Plums, apricots, peaches
Alpricots etc
Raspberries, grapes,
Currants, gooseberries
Fungi, Forage, ANIMALS!
Juglundacae
Prunus: Cherry, plum, peachalmond, apricot, nectarine…
Raspberries, blackberries
Elderberries
Currants, gooseberries
Grapes
Fungi, Forage, Livestock
Pecan
Prunus (cherry,plum, peach etc)
Persimmon, Paw Paw
Raspberry, Blackberry, elderberry
Currant, gooseberry
Grape, passionfruit
Fungi, Forage, Animals
Pinus: Pine nutsBeechPrunus: Cherries, Plums etcServiceberryHazelnutSiberian PeashrubBlueberryRaspberryLingonberryGrapeWintergreenFungi, forage, livestock…
Water movement before
Keyline Patterning & Terraces
Water movement
After Keyline patterning
Terraces & ponds
The POWER of grass!
Alleycropping: Rows of trees, cash crop in the
alleys….
Acorn Squash alleys between Hazelnut rows
Asparagus between rows of chestnut
Silvopasture
Dog
Cowies
Silvopasture: managed integration of livestock and woody
crops…
WOOF!
JURASSIC CHICKENS!
Photo: Chad Adams
5 Years Later
The POWER of collaboration…
RadPioneers.com
Facebook:
Restoration Agriculture Development
Facebook: Restoration Agriculture International, Inc.
Thank you for Farming (and EATING!)
in Nature’s Image!
forestag.com
Newforestfarm.net
RadPioneers.com
On facebook:
Mark Shepard
Restoration Agriculture Development