AGROFORESTRY COURSE | Lesson 3, Module 1 - Why Agroforestry | Food Forest COURSE |

Our full Agroforestry Introduction Course will give you all the initial information you need in order to start developing your own agroforestry systems, and enjoy a higher production from your farm or garden, while improving your soil.

During the course, you will have access to 5 modules, where we will show you different Agroforestry systems, explain to you the basic principles behind it, show you some important techniques, and take you through the initial planting of a system. We will take you through all the steps, from preparing the soil, to covering the soil, to planting, AND we will keep you up-to-date on the development of the system planted during the course.

MODULE I – INTRODUCTION
• LESSON 1: Welcome (Meet the Agroforestry Academy crew)
• LESSON 2: Our goal with this course (What we want for you)
• LESSON 3: Why Agroforestry (What’s in it for you)

MODULE II – EXAMPLES OF SYSTEMS
• LESSON 4: Grass System (Food forests for grass production)
• LESSON 5:Vegetables Systems (Food forests for vegetables production)
• LESSON 6: Fruits Systems (Food forests for fruit production)
• LESSON 7: Coffee System (Food forests for coffee production)
• LESSON 8: Final Considerations (A few last words)

MODULE III – PRINCIPLES
• LESSON 9: Optimizing Resources and Energy (Getting the most from your resources)
• LESSON 10: Succession of species (Taking advantage of species with different life cycles)
• LESSON 11: Stratification (Working with a multi-layered system)
• LESSON 12: Planting in Abundance (Nature’s own strategy for genetic selection)
• LESSON 13: Adapting to a main crop (Designing and Managing your system to a specific crop)
• LESSON 14: Final considerations (A few last words)

MODULE IV - TECHNIQUES
• LESSON 15: Covering the soil (Put all that organic matter on the floor!)
• LESSON 16: Companion planting (When together, plants grow better)
• LESSON 17: Pruning (Keeping things nice and tidy)
• LESSON 18: Final Considerations

MODULE V - PRACTICE
• LESSON 19: Preparing the soil (Getting the beds of your seeds and seedlings nice and welcoming)
• LESSON 20: Trees row (Planting your Legacy)
• LESSON 21: System I – Roots (Cassava, taro and sweet potato)
• LESSON 22: System II – Vegetables (Carrots, cabbage, coriander, beets and much more)
• LESSON 23: System III – Coffee (Coffee plants in the under-story)
• LESSON 24: System IV – Grains and grass (Corn, beans and grass)
• LESSON 25: Final Considerations

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[gabrielperin]

glad to see brazilians teaching and speaking english that good.

[AFRIKTODAY]

African representing here. I can see the amazing potential of this approach on our economies and even political stability. This is Gold.

[aaronjgranados]

Love the message!

Becoming accelerators of nature's progress. Rock on!

[thoomm]

You guys are amazing and i feel your energy is healing our human consciousness and reconecting us to mother earth's consciousnes through the work you do and you sharing with us all.
Much love to you!

[Wyzray-ug]

Wow, I love the way u explain, would hit me about bee keeping in Agroforestry

[nancyfahey]

I just chop n dropped my sisters back yard this morning. Alot more to go. But I noticed how unhealthy the trees were. And I chopped the golden rain trees to chest high for them to grow back. Super fast growers and they break down quickly too.

[permadynamicsnewzealand]

That was great work and talk Muito obrigado.

[MK-sisi]

Thank you for sharing. I would advice if I may, to work on the structure of your content. Many things could be said more strongly with less words. Kind regards, Michael K.

[SouthFloridaSunshine]

Can you please share what variety of banana tree/plant that rack was hanging down from? I understand it is the structure that helps get that result, just wondered what variety since those bananas look like supermarket size. Many home grown racks I have seen down here are much smaller.

[joaojordao]

@Agroforestry academy, Could you tell, as the biodiversity grow isn't necessary more measures than traditional agricultural to protect the fruits / vegetables? which turns it more expensive

[adamschroeder]

Around 9 minutes in, what is the positive result a giant swarm of locusts contributes? It is obviously not very good for conventional farming, would it benefit an agroforestry system?

[drewsfoodforest_tv]

Any ideas? on planting on a drain field possible agroforestry ideas?