https://milpamerica.org/p/raices/920995264186836768

En la Finca Don Cotto, en Aguas Buenas, nos reunimos para participar en un taller sobre prácticas agroforestales silvopastoriles de Colombia y cómo estas experiencias podrían servir de base para las prácticas en Puerto Rico. Escúchelo aquí: https://youtu.be/VVAdhrafUxY

At Finca Don Cotto in Aguas Buenas, we gathered for a workshop about silvopastural agroforestry practices from Columbia and how these experiences could inform practices in Puerto Rico. Listen here: https://youtu.be/VVAdhrafUxY

#agroecologia #silvopasture #puertorico #foodsovereignty #sharingknowledge #worshop #boricua

In today's edition, we're talking about the first river in #England to have its legal rights recognised by a local authority, the mission to repurpose an aging ocean liner as the world's largest artificial #reef, and how the practice of #silvopasture is reducing deforestation in the Amazon

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https://squirrel-news.net/news/first-english-river-granted-legal-rights-ocean-liner-becomes-worlds-largest-artificial-reef-hotel-for-cows/

Worthwhile read for anyone interested in #soil and #regenag - well researched.

"Trees shape the soil microbiome of a temperate agrosilvopastoral and syntropic #agroforestry system"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-85556-4

#silvopasture

#silvopasture protects farms against the two words often not spoken on farms:

"If you mention '#climate #change,'" Payne said, "it stops the conversation."

On Payne's 300 acres are the seeds of what will become 10,000 #trees.

There are also #sheep: 800 ewes and 1,000 lambs grazing on grass.

It's part of a method of farming called silvopasture. Payne and others see it as a solution for #sustainable, #climate-#friendly #farming.

"Silvopasture is not new," said Ashley Conway-Anderson, who teaches at the University of Missouri's Center for Agroforestry. 

Silvopasture refers to
🌟 intentionally integrating livestock with forages and trees. 🌟
It creates an ecosystem vastly different from the rows and rows of typical farms.

"I think it's our responsibility, being in the position that we're in, to be as responsible as we can with the land that we have," Conway- Anderson said. "It still provides a lot of really high-nutrient density food. It manages landscape in a more ecologically friendly way. But it is productive."

It's also built for more extreme weather. On this day on Payne Farms, it's 35 degrees with 30-mph winds. The sheep use the trees as a windbreak. In the increasing and intensifying heat of summer, they'll use the trees for shade.

https://scrippsnews.com/stories/old-farming-methods-draw-interest-as-climate-environment-demand-them/

https://grist.org/extreme-heat/livestock-dying-heat-solution-silvopasture/

Such a sensible idea.

#farming #cattle #silvopasture #sheep #livestock #trees #climate

New article at The Guardian describing the potential environmental, social, and economic benefits of #silvopasture, a form of #agroforestry strategically integrating trees and shrubs into animal pasturing operations:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/cows-sustainable-farming-silvopasture

It highlights the work of Bret Chedzoy, a local agroforestry educator helping this ancient practice take root here in the #FingerLakes region of New York.

This was how my grandfather did it.
#SilvoPasture #Farming #Cattle #Pasture

The Guardian: The best way to raise cows sustainably? Set them free https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/cows-sustainable-farming-silvopasture
>An old farming technique called silvopasture, which allows cows to graze on a variety of plants in forests and tree-filled pastureland, is seeing a resurgence across the world

'The best way to raise #cows sustainably? Set them free

An old #farming technique called #silvopasture, which allows cows to graze on a variety of plants in #forests and tree-filled pastureland, is seeing a resurgence across the world'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/cows-sustainable-farming-silvopasture #Sustainability #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Food