permaculture

["steveread" <steveread@free.fr>]

The orchard falls into the broad-scape part of permaculture
design,

Whilst this is often true certain stategies such as Forest gardens and the 
coppice orchard could be zoned as 2 or even, as here, 1. Our coppice orchard 
trees are summer pruned to hand height and of course when a N/S row is 
coppiced it forms a sunny glade.


This brings up the point that today as in years gone by the understory of the 
orchard can be utilised in many ways, crops/stock, especially when in the 
early years the canopy allows much sunlight. Around here peasant farmers 
couldn't afford to plant a field with trees and lose income until fruiting, 
the land was almost always used. Of course one has to be careful, sheep for 
eg will eat the bark. Phil Corbett suggests with the coppice orchard to 
create a grain/veg garden and plant the own root trees into it, succession to 
shade tolerants as the canopy closes.





  
Kenavo, 


Steve

Directeur de     l  'Université Populaire de Permaculture
Biographie     (SteveR) http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/

 
2008-04-1817:49:52


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