Growing food under a forest canopy with plenty of pruning, which creates healthy soil and less/no need for fertilizers. It's an effort to mimic a forest ecosystem and let things grow in their natural way (livestock is another aspect).
It's more complicated than that. They blend traditional food crops with trees, shrubs, etc, often alongside some kind of transition cycle where they'll change what is growing where over time. Sort of a blend of sustainable logging with farming.
Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.
I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!
dang|5 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dhruvkar|5 years ago
Growing food under a forest canopy with plenty of pruning, which creates healthy soil and less/no need for fertilizers. It's an effort to mimic a forest ecosystem and let things grow in their natural way (livestock is another aspect).
depthroiler|5 years ago
cavanasm|5 years ago
Shared404|5 years ago
jbeales|5 years ago
I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!