Agroforestry Introduction Course will give you all the initial information you need in order to start developing your own agroforestry systems and enjoy a higher production from your farm or garden, while improving your soil.
During the course, you will have access to 5 modules, where Agroforestry Academy will show you different Agroforestry systems, explain to you the basic principles behind it, show you some important techniques, and take you through the initial planting of a system.
- LESSON 1: Welcome (Meet the Agroforestry Academy crew)
- LESSON 2: Our goal with this course (What we want for you)
- LESSON 3: Why Agroforestry (What’s in it for you)
MODULE II – EXAMPLES OF SYSTEMS
- LESSON 4: Grass System (Food forests for grass production)
- LESSON 5: Vegetables Systems (Food forests for vegetables production)
- LESSON 6: Fruits Systems (Food forests for fruit production)
- LESSON 7: Coffee System (Food forests for coffee production)
- LESSON 8: Final Considerations (A few last words)
- LESSON 9: Optimizing Resources and Energy (Getting the most from your resources)
- LESSON 10: Succession of species (Taking advantage of species with different life cycles)
- LESSON 11: Stratification (Working with a multi-layered system)
- LESSON 12: Planting in Abundance (Nature’s own strategy for genetic selection)
- LESSON 13: Adapting to a main crop (Designing and Managing your system to a specific crop)
- LESSON 14: Final considerations (A few last words)
- LESSON 15: Covering the soil (Put all that organic matter on the floor!)
- LESSON 16: Companion planting (When together, plants grow better)
- LESSON 17: Pruning (Keeping things nice and tidy)
- LESSON 18: Final Considerations
- LESSON 19: Preparing the soil (Getting the beds of your seeds and seedlings nice and welcoming)
- LESSON 20: Trees row (Planting your Legacy)
- LESSON 21: System I – Roots (Cassava, taro and sweet potato)
- LESSON 22: System II – Vegetables (Carrots, cabbage, coriander, beets and much more)
- LESSON 23: System III – Coffee (Coffee plants in the under-story)
- LESSON 24: System IV – Grains and grass (Corn, beans and grass)
- LESSON 25: Final Considerations