The Eastern Agricultural Complex are a group of crops that were domesticated in Eastern North American before the arrival of corn, beans, and squash from Mexico. In 2011 Jonathan and I grew out a bunch of them to learn more about this fascinating but largely neglected group of native crops.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference August 2011. This segment covers next steps for research and implementation and connection to the larger climate movement.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference August 2011. This segment reviews perennial staple crops of the world, including establish crops and others under development.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference August 2011. This segment reviews different perennial farming models.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference August 2011. This segment focuses on regenerative livestock practices.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference August 2011. This segment reviews the regenerative annual cropping systems including alley cropping and organic no-till.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference August 2011. This segment reviews the potential carbon sequestration impact of implementation of large scale land use changes.
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the 2011 Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference.
Tour of a bed of inoculated wood chips, a great productive use of shade for edible forest gardens. These are stropharia mushrooms which are very good eating and very easily grown, they should be part of every forest garden.
An overview of traditional indigenous management of landscapes and useful plants. Native people used (and today many still use) burning, horticultural practices, regenerative harvests, propagation and transportation of "wild" species, cultivation and domestication to create a productive landscape. Implications for permaculture, food forestry, and ecological restoration.
Twenty year old forest garden at Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute. Video tour includes successful species and polyculture combinations, and essential elements of Jerome Osentowski's design.
Perennial polyculture of yamberry or Chinese Yam (Dioscorea batatas or D. opposita), grown for aerial tuber production and trellised on nitrogen fixing Siberian pea shrub (Caragana arborescens). Groundcover of nitrogen fixing birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) with perennial alliums: ramps (Allium tricoccum), perennial kurrat leek (A ampeloprasum) and elephant garlic (A. ampeloprasum).
Perennial polyculture of yamberry or Chinese Yam (Dioscorea batatas or D. opposita), grown for aerial tuber production and trellised on nitrogen fixing Siberian pea shrub (Caragana arborescens). Groundcover of nitrogen fixing birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) with perennial alliums: ramps (Allium tricoccum), perennial kurrat leek (A ampeloprasum) and elephant garlic (A. ampeloprasum).
Edible landscape at our home garden featuring tropical plants grown in a hot, protected microclimate. Update in late summer when plants are getting nice and big.
Young forest garden at New Forest Institute in Brooks Maine with annual market crops interspersed to utilize early-stage sunlight and provide incentive for managment.
A new-planted edible hedge at Woodbine Ecology Center featuring swale or berm-and-basin rainwater harvesting system with living coppiced hedgerow of native nitrogen-fixing shrubs, which will serve as a snow trap as well to harvest abundant snow precipitation. All-native crop plants include golden currant, chokecherry, sand cherry, saskatoon, and American hazel.
A tour of one patch from our home edible forest garden, featuring a persimmon tree, shrubs including goumi, pea shrub, jostaberry, and dwarf mulberry, and many multifunctional perennials below.
Polyculture for coppiced mulberry leaf production for human food. Features nitrogen-fixing Flemingia as well. Filmed at Las Canadas in Veracruz Mexico.
Establishing a herb layer polyculture with perennial ground cherry, bush indigo, and violets. The polyculture is surrounded by a rhizome barrier to prevent spread of the ground cherries.
Establishing a herb layer polyculture with walking onions and "Hidecote Blue" comfrey, beneath jostaberry. Note that the bamboo in this clip is restrained by a rhizome barrier and will not spread.
Classic permaculture poultry forage system at Las Canadas in Veracruz, Mexico. Chickens are rotated through a series of paddocks with forage crops and long-term tree crops under establishment. Fodder banks provide additional cut-and-carry material.
