Geoff Lawton: Agroforestry systems for global stability and live Q&A
- What is a food forest? We are familiar with forests. Designed by nature. Maintained in a system in perfect balance. Imagine that in a system that produce food for us. That’s a food forest.
- We can produce food in the most sustainable way. Maximum output. Minimum input.
- Long-term and permanent situations.
- All forests have those layers.
- Canopy
- Understory
- Bushes and shrubes
- Herbaceous
- Roots
- Ground covers
- Climbers
- When we design a food forest, we put these layers to our benefit. They are stable when all layers occupy the space.
- AFI : Support species
- We stake in time and speed up the process
- We change the way it growth in our favour
- Nothing like this in modern agriculture
- The production of soil is constant
- The diversity of production in non stop
- With a FF system you have a system that reproduces over time
- We need people to realise that if we all move in the same direction, we can supply all our needs without causing damage to our planet
- We are not separate from Nature
- Can permaculture go to scale?
- If it is maintained
- Restoration: the next generation will have a much better life. Everything would be different.
- We can’t do it one backyard at a time. We have to change the erodate ecosystems.
- Turn everything into functional system.
- Everyone has to save the world.
- High-quality maps are important
- MAPPING IN PERMACULTURE
- Best: Lidar -> Satellite -> Drone
- No AFI/Support species: the FF will be slower to evolve
- City: should now be 70% forest (microclimate, psychological benefits, etc)
- Regional development needs to be addresses by local community group
- local permaculture groups, eclectic group of people thinking problems into solutions
- youth activity centres
- work with schools
- do unusual things, like doing permaculture in parks
- local gov sees what we do with schools
- Lidar:
- Map through a forest
- Curbs on the soil
- FF buffer climate effects, of course
I can reforest with goats (see video on YT). Nitrogen and productive together. Plant support species after productive species. You don’t have to use animals, at the same time you can. All FF he planted have been planted on a single day, all species together.
Martin Crawford: Maximising carbon storage in food forests and live Q&A
- We can maximize carbon sequestration
- Maximise rate and amount of C sequestration in biomass
- Maximise rate of stranfer of C from biomass to soil
- Minimise C losses
- Decompacted soils store more carbon than compacted soils
- AFI: “Nurse trees/shrubs”
- Maximise use of large fast growing trees
- Include especially DEEP-ROOTED trees/plants
- FF are long term projects
- Ground covering plants: very very important
- They keep the soil covered, protected
- Covers the woody debris
- Can significally reduce any work
- Use beds for annual vegetables, because otherwise you will lose C
Theme: Forest Gardens and Health (Anne Stobart, Sebastian Pole, Simon Miles, Jenny Pickup)
- Book: The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook (Anne Stobart)
- Viburnum opulus: médicinal
- Antispasmodic, récolte après 2-3 ans
- Fraxinus …: médicinal
- Virginian witch hazel (leaf and twig)
- Pollarding (têtard): violet willow ()
- medicinalfoodforesttrust.org
- Sebastian Pole: Pukka Herbs
- Triphala:
- Balancing gut microbiota
- Healing leaky gut
- Immunomodulation
- Simon Miles
- We feel better by just being outside (aerosols coming from bacterias)
- Chemicals floating around all the time
- We should be excited by walking around in a FF
- Forest bathing in Japan: aerosols
- Sentir les fleurs et les fruits peut changer notre rythme cardiaque
- Each plant that we eat will have an effect on our microbiote
- We want fresh food
- As much diversity as possible
- Fermentation
- Medlar (): bletting is actually fermentation
- Arbousier ()
- Self medication
- Plantago lanceolata (plantain)
- Orties
- Gaultheria prombuscens
- Tim Spector books: eat 30 plants/week
- theforestgarden.co.uk
- Jenny Pickup: suicide prevention in forest gardens
- “The elephant in the garden”
salix daphnoides
mespilus germanica
arbutus unedo
Ricarbol: La Bosquicultura in Chile and live Q&A
- Chilean Plum: pour les générations suivantes, petites noix de coco ()
Jubaea chilensis
Emma Pilgrim: Research on people, forest gardens and wildlife
- Reduce reliance on annual crops
- Alternative food resources
Theme: Farm Scale Food Forestry & Live Panel Q&A (Eva Johansson, Frank Gorter, Steven Heyde & Stefanie Delarue, Jelle Fekkes, Louis De Jaeger and Wouter Van Eck)
- Welna: 4 designs on 14 ha
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4. Biodiversity
- Welna: Food Forestry model
- Jelle Fekkes
- Louis de Jaeger
- Food forest documentaries: 13 FF in Belgium
- The Biggest Tree Plant (2020: 100 FF)
- Food Forest Network .com
Ideas
- Let animals prepare soil
- Terrasse sur un des étangs
Questions
- Do we have use-cases for Apple devices Lidar technology? (Geoff Lawton talked about it in the first talk)
Descriptions de forest gardeners
Louis de Jaeger, Food Forest Institute (BE) - https://commensalist.com
Marie-Anne Hachey
Maxime Leloup
Pablo Van Neste is an alumnus of Wageningen University and Research and has a master in Organic Agriculture and wrote a thesis on 'Children’s Ideas for Designing Educational Forest Gardens in the Netherlands'.