With the growth in popularity around permaculture and food forests, even people without access to their own land are looking into opportunities to come together and create beautiful edible landscapes that everyone can access on public land. Enter community orchards or food forests. These are increasingly being grown on abandoned […]
Syntropic Agroforestry has exploded in popularity and interest in the last few years. Iāve explored this agroforestry design and management system a little in some previous episodes with my friend Jacob Evans, but thereās so much more to explore. First pioneered by renowned farmer Ernst Gostch in Brazil, his integrated […]
The growing popularity of permaculture food forests and backyard multispecies orchards is part of a movement that Iām 110% in support of. Any addition of native and food producing plants in diverse multispecies configurations is a wonderful thing. I want to see as many people as possible find success with […]
This is part two of the conversation started last week with Akiva Silver. Co-owner of Twisted Tree nursery and homestead. If you havenāt yet heard the first part, you can find the link in the show notes for this episode on the website at regenerativeskills.com Youāll remember from last week […]
After the last few weeks of focus on the intricacies of Holistic management and building community in agriculture, I wanted to go back to some technical information on specific farming enterprises.Ā One of the most common questions I get asked from listeners and clients who are starting new projects is […]
A lot of my work these days revolves around communicating with farmers around Europe who are at various stages of a transition towards regenerative management. For many different reasons farmers are looking for solutions outside of the conventional industry of chemical and technological manipulations and are rediscovering the potential of […]
Today Iām back with part 2 of my interview with Blake Cothron, the author of the new book āThe Berry Grower: small scale organic fruit production in the 21st century.ā Just in case you missed the first part of this episode, Blake Cothron is an organic farmer, educator, professional horticulturist […]
Iām super excited to share with you all what is about to be a deep dive into one of the most promising and often overlooked small farm enterprises, small fruit and berry growing. In order to get the scoop on berry growing, I went straight to the source to speak […]
Welcome back to another episode in this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. Today weāre going to pick up where we left off last week in our conversation with Mark Krawczyk about the practice of coppicing woody perennial plants and woodland management as a whole. For a quick recap, […]
