Silvopasture establishment in a permaculture context. Silvopasture is the synergistic production of livestock and tree crops in the same system.

1. Fruits, Nuts, and Livestock
Creating a Permaculture Silvopasture
PermacultureVoices - PV2
San Diego, California
Grant Schultz
Versaland
http://www.versaland.com
Iowa City, Iowa
http://www.versaland.com

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3. Silvopasture

4. Original Human Habitat

5. Ecosystem = Foodsystem

8. permaculture pigs

9. Many Facets of Agroforestry
Edible Hedgerows
(added yield from wind
protection)
Orchard (focus on fruit
production)
Alleycropping
Browsing Silvopasture

11. Trees + Livestock

13. Keyline Silvopasture
VersaLand

14. Australia Felix Permaculture – Forestry & Silvopastoral Research Farm – 2006

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Ridgedale
Richard Perkins - Sweden - 2014

16. On-contour block of mulberry coppiced for edible leaves at
Las Canadas in Mexico
http://www.perennialsolutions.org/cuba-mass-planting-moringa-and-mulberry

17. http://clas.berkeley.edu/research/assessment-multi-species-fodder-bank-cropping-systems-improve-farm-protein-production-food
11 hectare mulberry (Morus alba) fodder bank with cut-and-mulch nitrogen fixer Erythrina
poeppigiana).Turrialba, Costa Rica. (Photo by Justin West.)

18. Adapted Livestock

22. No Ringing Necessary

23. Select for Self-Care
Profit from reduced labor!

24. Circle Branch Pork

25. Positive Attributes
Grazing characteristics
Foraging habits
Growth rate
Hardiness
Litter size/prolificacy

26. Lives in Jungle

27. Icelandic Chicken
…looking for grain

28. Geese Eat Grass

29. http://tallcloverfarm.com/
Profit Centers

36. Methods of Establishment
Seed, Cuttings, Bareroot, Potted

37. Nice ROI!
$1,200
of
Chestnuts

38. Mushrooms
in your
Mulch

39. Seeds

40. Direct Seeding
Jang seeder with optional disc opener
size roller to tree seed

41. Tree Seed Sources
NewFarmSupply.com
Lovelace Seed (family behind Forrest Keeling nursery)
Lawyer Nursery Seed Department
F.W. Schumacher
Sheffields
Park Seed Company
OR COLLECT IT YOURSELF!

42. How Many Seeds/lb?
Pawpaw - (288 seeds/lb) $35/lb = $0.12/seed
Osage Orange (13,000 seeds/lb) $20/lb 6 seeds for a
penny
Honeylocust (2,800 seeds/lb) $11/lb
American Persimmon (1,200 seeds/lb) $11/lb
Chestnut and Walnut (25-40 seeds/lb) $3-10/lb

43. Bareroot Trees
$0.50-30 each

44. $1 - $7 -$15 - $30

45. Speed of Planting
Inexpensive Shipping
Instant Orchard
3/4” caliper = 5+ ft Height

46. How do you want to manage planting
expenses and cashflows?
Death losses?
Pest pressure?
Timeline-to-bear?

47. Young Silvopasture
Systems
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48. Orchard Alleycropping - Fruit & Veg

49. Orchard Alleycropping

50. Fruit Tree Rootstock

51. Shipped Dormant

52. eOrganic

53. eOrganic

54. Grafting
so many ways!

55. in situ vs bench
Grafting

57. Amazon Prime
to your door!
$20
v-cut
&
omega

58. $159 new
Topgrafter
handheld or
bench mounted
NewFarmSupply.com

59. Victorinox Grafting Knives
$16-30

60. BEST VALUE!
$20

61. Keyline Silvopasture
VersaLand

62. Grid Survey
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70. MAKE AN IMPACT!
Farmscale Permaculture Course
4 Days - October 1-4th, 2015
www.Versaland.com

71. NewFarmSupply.com
100 Chestnut Trees
for
$297

72. NewFarmSupply.com
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