Restoration Agriculture:… the time is NOW!

PERMA (permanent)

(agri) CULTURE• “Permaculture is an ecological design methodology

where we create relationships between materials, plants, animals and humans in order to optimize function and yield. The aim is to create systems that are ecologically sound and economically profitable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute and are therefore sustainable in the long term. Much of the design is taken from nature. It can be as simple or as sophisticated as you like.”

(Bill Mollison)• (Permanent- Latin: per- throughout + manere- to remain; Culture- Middle English: cultivation,

tillage; from Old French; from Latin: cultura, from cultus- cultivation, from Germanic: skel- to cut)

Why Restoration Agriculture?

Search: Photos JR SIMPLOT CAFO Idaho

Identify your biome and keystone plant communities

Establish edible woody polycultures

Build fences & roads, utilities, pipelines

Transition using Agroforestry practices

Manage for eternity!

Earthworks/ water management

The Restoration Agriculture process:

Fagacea: Oak,Chestnut, Beech

Apples

Hazelnut

Prunus: plum, cherry,

peach

Raspberry, grape, currant

Forage, animals, fungi

Oak, Chestnut

Apples

Hazelnut

Prunus: Almonds, Cherries

Plums, apricots, peaches

Alpricots etc

Raspberries, grapes,

Currants, gooseberries

Fungi, Forage, ANIMALS!

Juglundacae

Prunus: Cherry, plum, peachalmond, apricot, nectarine…

Raspberries, blackberries

Elderberries

Currants, gooseberries

Grapes

Fungi, Forage, Livestock

Pecan

Prunus (cherry,plum, peach etc)

Persimmon, Paw Paw

Raspberry, Blackberry, elderberry

Currant, gooseberry

Grape, passionfruit

Fungi, Forage, Animals

Pinus: Pine nutsBeechPrunus: Cherries, Plums etcServiceberryHazelnutSiberian PeashrubBlueberryRaspberryLingonberryGrapeWintergreenFungi, forage, livestock…

Water movement before

Keyline Patterning & Terraces

Water movement

After Keyline patterning

Terraces & ponds

The POWER of grass!

Alleycropping: Rows of trees, cash crop in the

alleys….

Acorn Squash alleys between Hazelnut rows

Asparagus between rows of chestnut

Silvopasture

Dog

Cowies

Silvopasture: managed integration of livestock and woody

crops…

WOOF!

JURASSIC CHICKENS!

Photo: Chad Adams

5 Years Later

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Thank you for Farming (and EATING!)

in Nature’s Image!

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