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Niel Liesmons 3 months ago
We've been testing several shrubs in our #foodforest to see which ones would work well in between the larger fruit trees we already have in our #agroforestry tree lanes. So far cultivated Autumn Olive (Eleaegnus umbellata) is winning. Winning hard. Aronia, currants, goumis, hazels, ... are all fine. But none are as reliable, fix nitrogen in the soil in the same way, let me harvest 4kg per hour per shrub, are as desirable of a niche crop that is easy transform, etc... We know what to plant :Check: image

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Niel Liesmons 3 months ago
We farm on the start of a plateau on some of there cheapest land of France. I need the all the "invasive" I can get ๐Ÿ˜…. Which is a term I don't really believe in anyway. NSA is invasive. Plants aren't. They just thrive in certain contexts.
They're the only tolerable invasive on our property. I have to surpress them because they will take over pastures. However i am more focused on removing invasive japanese honey suckle and multi-flora rose because those 2 actually dont have a use, whereas we use the autmn olive for vitamin c in our fire cider. I dont plant them, but sea buckthorn, goumi and service berry are similar and will make their way into our guilds when i finish turning the forests into silvopasture.
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