Organic Apple Pest Control for USDA Zones 4-8: Moths & Maggots
Learn organic pest control for apples in USDA zones 4-8. Manage codling moth, spotted-wing drosophila, and apple maggot with IPM, cultural practices, and traps for a healthy harvest.
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Formative Pruning Young Fruit Trees: Open-Center vs. Central-Leader
Learn formative pruning techniques for young fruit trees (years 1-3). Compare open-center vs. central-leader systems to build a strong, productive orchard in USDA zone 6.
Syntropic farming: growing a food forest the way nature builds one
Syntropic farming, developed by Ernst Gotsch, farms with natural succession and stratification, using heavy pruning instead of fertilizer. Here is how it works.
Pruning leucaena for biomass — Götsch’s chop-and-drop, applied
Leucaena is not a crop you harvest. It is a pump you operate. Leucaena leucocephala — ipil-ipil , river tamarind — exists in a syntropic system to convert sunlight and atmospheric nitrogen into bio…