Eric,
This sounds like a great project!
If you have time, come visit us. We are working on a manual for farmers on turning damaged land into stacked polycultures. Our farm was an abandoned citrus and cattle farm in 1988, and we now manage over 500 species of plants on 22 acres (out of 70), and are expanding. We have been doing this for the last 24 years.
We used a series of plants, pioneer species, cover crops, annuals with long term species interplanted. We get yields within 4 months and then in perpetuity. Part of the farm take very little work to maintain, and provide a LOT of goods and services.
Right now we are consolidating a lot of the farm by using the understory we have created to plant out rare cultivars of cacao we found deep in the Maya Mountains at Maya sites. These are relic Maya cultigens left behind after their collapse.
There is a lot going on here, so if you have questions, please feel free to ask them.
Best wishes,
Christopher
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Christopher Nesbitt
Maya Mountain Research Farm
San Pedro Columbia, Toledo
PO 153 Punta Gorda Town, Toledo
BELIZE,
Central America
Country code 501-630-4386
www.mmrfbz.org
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On Apr 12, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Scott Vlaun wrote:
This sounds great Eric.
Have you seen Biosequestration and Ecological Diversity: Mitigating
and Adapting to Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Wayne A.
White? It's a good read and loaded with statistics and references that
might help you on your journey. I'm not finished, but so far no
mention of edible paradise!
Best of Luck with this timely project.
Scott Vlaun Moose Pond Arts+Ecology Design Solutions for a Sustainable
Future
35 Moose Pond Rd, Otisfield, Maine 04270 • 207-539-9042
On Apr 5, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Eric Toensmeier wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm writing a book about the potential for perennial crops and
regenerative
farming practices to sequester carbon, plus provide other multiple
functions of course!
You can pre-buy a copy or otherwise contribute through the kickstarter
campaign<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1115575313/writing-toolkit-for-climate-stabilization-with-tre
,or just pass it along to your friends.
To save the planet we may need to turn it into an edible paradise...
help
me write the book that explains how and why.
Eric
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Eric Toensmeier
(413) 695-6115
www.perennialsolutions.org
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