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Fruits, Nuts, and Livestock Creating a Permaculture Silvopasture
Permaculture Voices - PV2San Diego, California
Grant SchultzVersaland
http://www.versaland.comIowa City, Iowa
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Silvopasture
Original Human Habitat
Ecosystem = Foodsystem
permaculture pigs
Many Facets of Agroforestry
Edible Hedgerows (added yield from wind protection) Orchard (focus on fruit production) Alleycropping Browsing Silvopasture
Trees + Livestock
Keyline Silvopasture
VersaLand
Australia Felix Permaculture – Forestry & Silvopastoral Research Farm – 2006
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Ridgedale Richard Perkins - Sweden - 2014
On-contour block of mulberry coppiced for edible leaves at Las Canadas in Mexico
http://www.perennialsolutions.org/cuba-mass-planting-moringa-and-mulberry
http://clas.berkeley.edu/research/assessment-multi-species-fodder-bank-cropping-systems-improve-farm-protein-production-food
11 hectare mulberry (Morus alba) fodder bank with cut-and-mulch nitrogen fixer Erythrina poeppigiana). Turrialba, Costa Rica. (Photo by Justin West.)
Adapted Livestock
No Ringing Necessary
Select for Self-Care
Profit from reduced labor!
Circle Branch Pork
Positive Attributes
Grazing characteristics Foraging habits Growth rate Hardiness Litter size/prolificacy
Lives in Jungle
Icelandic Chicken
…looking for grain
Geese Eat Grass
Methods of Establishment Seed, Cuttings, Bareroot, Potted
Nice ROI!
$1,200 of
Chestnuts
Mushrooms in your Mulch
Seeds
Direct SeedingJang seeder with optional disc opener
size roller to tree seed
Tree Seed Sources
NewFarmSupply.com Lovelace Seed (family behind Forrest Keeling nursery) Lawyer Nursery Seed Department F.W. Schumacher Sheffields Park Seed Company OR COLLECT IT YOURSELF!
How Many Seeds/lb?
Pawpaw - (288 seeds/lb) $35/lb = $0.12/seed Osage Orange (13,000 seeds/lb) $20/lb 6 seeds for a penny Honeylocust (2,800 seeds/lb) $11/lb American Persimmon (1,200 seeds/lb) $11/lb Chestnut and Walnut (25-40 seeds/lb) $3-10/lb
Bareroot Trees $0.50-30 each
$1 - $7 -$15 - $30
Speed of Planting
Inexpensive Shipping
Instant Orchard
3/4” caliper = 5+ ft Height
How do you want to manage planting expenses and cashflows?
Death losses?
Pest pressure?
Timeline-to-bear?
Young Silvopasture Systems
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Orchard Alleycropping - Fruit & Veg
Orchard Alleycropping
Fruit Tree Rootstock
Shipped Dormant
eOrganic
eOrganic
Grafting so many ways!
in situ vs bench Grafting
Amazon Prime to your door! $20
v-cut &
omega
Victorinox Grafting Knives
$16-30
BEST VALUE!
$20
Keyline Silvopasture
VersaLand
Grid Survey
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MAKE AN IMPACT!Farmscale Permaculture Course
4 Days - October 1-4th, 2015www.Versaland.com
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