Why you SHOULD plant EXOTIC SPECIES in your Agroforestry Systems

There's a lot of negative claims about exotic tree species, such as that they will invade natural ecosystems, take up the space of native trees and even cause damage to soil and mess up the water balance of the place. We want to debunk that idea and encourage you to use exotic species in your Agroforestry systems, as they will help regenerating and enriching your soil.

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[dustindaamen]

The info provided in this video is a real eyeopener because I always focussed on native species only in my system but even though the climate and location haven't changed the soil has changed so native actually isn't native anymore. This opened my eyes for the implementation of exotic species that are better adapted to the current soil conditions and therefore the new "natives". Thanks for this great tip, really good view you gave here.
Big thumbs up!

[SHANONisRegenerate]

Yea I just planted tree Lucerne as a fast growing wind buffer

[dans]

Well articulated defense of using exotics. Or maybe I just agree. If a niche needs filling and there isn't a handy native, anything is better than leaving it empty.

We have a local exotic here in the Florida panhandle that local keep warning me to not let grow. I'd massively invasive, they say. I see it as fast biomass until I can get some other tree going to shade it out. It's also keeping tree roots in the ground (vs field weeds). And it's not pine! Some pine is good, all pine not so much.