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Silvopasture

Silvopasture places trees deliberately within grazing land, creating a layered system where shade, leaf litter, and root networks benefit both soil and animals. Articles here address species selection, tree spacing for forage access, fencing to protect young trees, and the long-run productivity gains — timber, fodder, carbon sequestration — that mature silvopasture systems produce.

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PIONEER · LIVESTOCK·5 min read

A food forest for chickens: designing perennial forage that actually feeds your flock

How to design a perennial chicken food forest in temperate North America – species, paddock rotation, toxic plants to avoid, and the honest feed-offset math.

CLIMAX · LIVESTOCK·5 min read

Silvopasture: grazing livestock and growing trees on the same acre

Silvopasture deliberately combines trees, forage, and grazing livestock on one acre. Here is how it works, what it yields, and how to establish it well.

PIONEER · DESIGN·5 min read

Agroforestry: the five ways to farm with trees

Agroforestry is the intentional integration of trees into farming. Here are its five practices, the benefits for carbon and income, and how to start small.

CLIMAX · LIVESTOCK·5 min read

Livestock in the mature canopy — guidelines that won’t ruin trees

Animals belong in a mature agroforest — but on terms the trees can survive. Done well, livestock in the climax canopy close the nutrient loop: they graze the understorey you cannot sell, drop ferti…