The holiday season commonly instills an overwhelming sense of togetherness, love, gratitude, and comfort. It’s a time to celebrate with family…
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As a child, the lines between land, plants, and animals appeared stark. Plants grow in soil and animals eat plants (and other animals). Delving into the complexities of regenerative agriculture, however, the borders between soil, plant, and animal blur; everything exists in a state of codependency with its surroundings.
In food forests, trees grow alongside herbs, veggies, vines, and groundcover. This design practice—combining plants to work together for the overall benefit of the whole forest—is called companion planting.
At its simplest, the term agroforestry means incorporating trees into a farm. Agroforestry has been used across millennia and cultures, and we can find examples both in modern-day agriculture and ancient farming systems.