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AgroforestryPublished on April 12, 20267 min readby Agrícola Santo Cristo team
An introduction to successional agroforestry
How to integrate trees, food and biodiversity into a single productive system that regenerates while it harvests.
Successional agroforestry systems mimic how the forest organizes itself in time, generating food and regenerating the soil at once.
- Stratification: occupy every layer.
- Succession: respect each species' time.
- Density: plant a lot, manage often.
- Constant cover: never leave the soil bare.
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