Welcome back to this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. This week will be the first of a two part interview I did with Philipp Gerhardt, the founder of the website baumfeldwirtschaft.de (which translates basically to tree farming) and managing director of Deutsche Agroforst GmbH. He is considered a […]
Welcome to a special episode edition of this ongoing series focusing on tree planting and agroforestry. So far I鈥檝e had a lot of interviews talking about tree and perennial systems and we鈥檝e mostly looked at things from a macro perspective. Today we鈥檒l take a closer look at one of the […]
Welcome to a special episode edition of this ongoing series focusing on tree planting and agroforestry. Often when we think about agroforestry we think first about food. Orchards of fruit and nut crops are certainly an important aspect of agroforestry, but so is the responsible harvesting and care for woodlands […]
Welcome back to this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. As I鈥檝e been researching this topic for years I鈥檝e begun to see a spectrum of tree planting concepts that look like a gradient based on the diversity in the system. On one extreme you have monoculture orchards and timber […]
Just as promised from last week鈥檚 episode exploring the wide and unknown varieties of fruit and nut trees for cold climates, we鈥檙e going to go deeper into getting forest gardens established in frigid zones. It turns out there are tons of planting options for people who live in hardiness zones […]
There are so many interesting perspectives to approach this topic from and today we鈥檙e going to hear from two people who turned a personal love of plants into a thriving botanical garden and nursery. Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano started creating a botanical garden in their backyard 22 years ago […]
As we come to the end of this series on building strong communities, I wanted to revisit one of the most impactful conversations I had from last season. Last year you may remember that I released an 11 episode series of expert panels focused on various aspects of regenerative agriculture. […]
Over the last decade I鈥檝e begun to see a subcategory of permaculture learning start to gain attention. As more and more people encounter the principles of this ecological design framework and experiment with different ways of applying it in their lives there鈥檚 been an emergence of social permaculture to integrate […]
As I continue to explore the knowledge and wisdom of people around the world working to build and strengthen their communities, I鈥檝e been uncovering inspiring examples of local initiatives striving for a carbon neutral future. Inspired to act by the global efforts to reduce nonrenewable fuel dependence and to uncouple […]
