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What is Agroforestry? What are the benefits of agroforestry? Alley Cropping: How is this an Agroforestry Practice?. Presentation Objectives. What is Agroforestry?. It is an agricultural approach of using interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock.

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  1. What is Agroforestry? • What are the benefits of agroforestry? • Alley Cropping: How is this an Agroforestry Practice? Presentation Objectives

  2. What is Agroforestry? It is an agricultural approach of using interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock.

  3. Here, do this! Use forestry! Here, do this! Use agriculture! Forestry Agriculture

  4. …..theintentional combining of agriculture and working trees to create sustainable farming and ranching systems. Riparian buffer Windbreaks Silvopasture Forest farming What is Agroforestry? Alley cropping

  5. Alley cropping is a simple way of combining fruit tree-growing with garden plants.

  6. + Alley cropping!

  7. Growing an annual crop simultaneously in the alley ways between rows of a tree crop. The agricultural crop generates food and potential income while the tree crop matures. Alley Cropping

  8. Several crops happening at once • Reduce erosion (trees holding soil) • Improve water quality • Protect crops • Improve utilization of nutrients • Provide wildlife habitat • Looks beautiful • Store carbon Alley Cropping Benefits

  9. Examples of small area Alley Cropping

  10. Larger scale Alley Cropping projects

  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MOHym6hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MOHym6gC09k#t=92sttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MOHym6gC09kgC09khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MOHym6hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MOHym6gC09k#t=92sttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MOHym6gC09kgC09k Let’s watch a short clip on a small garden Alley Crop project…. U-tube “Garden Alley Crop” by TrevorsGarden

  12. Questions:Based on what you have seen is Alley Cropping a good idea?Would you be willing to help protect the orchard from vandalism?Is it fair that those that work in the orchard get to harvest and use the Garden crops they grow?Would you be willing to help plant the orchard?

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