Food Forests
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:17 pm
7 Food Forests in 7 Minutes with Geoff Lawton
Obviously this wouldn't work in the desert, but maybe some of the techniques and a different selection of plants could be used to approximate this kind of a set up. The idea of kick-starting this with a winter crop of legumes to enrich the soil makes a lot of sense. Clover probably requires too much water, but there might be other legumes which would do well. It's worth looking into anyways.
Obviously this wouldn't work in the desert, but maybe some of the techniques and a different selection of plants could be used to approximate this kind of a set up. The idea of kick-starting this with a winter crop of legumes to enrich the soil makes a lot of sense. Clover probably requires too much water, but there might be other legumes which would do well. It's worth looking into anyways.