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Agroforestry Garden: From Planning to Practice

Learn how to integrate vegetables, trees, and bananas in the same space using a monthly vegetable-plot rotation. This course guides you step by step through planting, annual pruning, and sequential crop management so that after completing 12 plots, you can return to the first plot for tree pruning and replanting. You’ll also explore tested intercropping possibilities and strategies for maximizing productivity and diversity in your agroforestry system.

What you will learn

  • How to start an agroforestry garden from scratch
  • How to plan the intercropping of vegetables and trees
  • How to properly prepare the soil and vegetable garden beds
  • How to plant in the ideal sequence
  • How to mulch the beds with shredded pruning waste
  • The correct technique to ensure roots make direct contact with the soil (instead of getting trapped in the mulch)
  • How combining cycles and strata protects against climate extremes, insects, and diseases
  • How this system can yield up to 350% more than traditional monoculture