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Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm a ...
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#49 The potential of agroforestry in human scale regenerative enterprises with Richard Perkins
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By Dimitri Tsitos & Etienne Compagnon, Dimitri Tsitos, and Etienne Compagnon. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
I am today with Richard Perkins from Ridgedale Farm in Sweden. For those who do not know, Richard is a leading educator and author in the field of regenerative agriculture, specialising in human scale enterprises. We discuss the tree systems he has planted on his farm, and more specifically the opportunity of integrating trees to market gardening and pastured poultry, two of his key enterprises. Richard is also an educator with the mission of helping farmers to build and manage successful small scale farms. He is therefore the ideal guest to have a conversation on how to make small scale agroforestry systems viable, and their place in the farm strategy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01:41Richard’s story
05:45 What perennial systems on the farm?
16:08 What place for perennial crops in your long term strategy?
21:30 How do you manage your skill set?
26:07 What oportunity for low managment tree plantings?
31:00 How do you balance complexifying your ecology and maintaining efficiency?
35:48 How to intergrate trees in your market garden?
37:35 Trees and pastured poultry
41:06 How do you make agroforestry profitable on a small scale?
44:32 Funding tree plantations
48:41 Where should we prioritise planting trees in the landscape?
• RESOURCES
https://www.richardperkins.co/
https://www.youtube.com/c/RichardPerkinsofRidgedale/
• GET IN TOUCH www.regenerativeagroforestry.org
• SUPPORT US www.gumroad.com/regenagroforestry
• FOLLOW US on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram
• FUNDING FOR EUROPEAN PROJECTS https://explore.ecosia.org/regenerative-agriculture
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