My granddad lost his farm in the mid 80s. I remember the auction selling his life’s work off. I would like to start a small farm before I get too old.

Our family practiced 'shaded grazing' to manage natural timber stands sustainably over generations using a variety of animal species (cattle, horses, sometimes sheep & goats, and hogs). Good to see the practice coming back, whatever they call it now. Some call it 'savannah'. Properly managed, both trees & livestock benefit. Works great with hardwoods, too.

Great info. Silvopasture can also be built using perennial tree crops like peaches or pecans

@HarrisonCountyStudio

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about this, or even using apple trees as well.

@willieclark2256

3 жыл бұрын

@@HarrisonCountyStudio absolutely!!! But not in Florida, we grow bad apples

@Phabiona

Жыл бұрын

Using fruit and nut trees will work but rock fruit and livestock not recommended. Yet food forestry will give best outcome in comparison to silvopastures. With enough land one could make different acreage dedicated to the livestock in which you have in that system area.

@willieclark2256

7 ай бұрын

@@Phabiona Seeing as the animals legally can't be in an orchard plantation within 120 days of harvest, stone fruit poisoning isn't an issue.

it seems the science has advanced quite a bit since this was published. i bet that farm would be so much more productive if they constantly had various combinations of covercrops at all times and also use no till methods so you dont damage the fungal network.

Thanks for sharing! We have some great conversations about Silvopasture on our channel as well!

@willieclark2256

3 жыл бұрын

Ya sure do!

Great idea! Better yet, a compatable mix of tree species appropriate to soil & climate. Planting on countour; allowing a mix of shrubs, forbs, and grasses to establish synergistic relationships, wildlife habitat, pest predators, and a more varied- more healthy- diet for the livestock (cattle, sheep, goats, and/or...?) - these are just a few of the benefits of getting away from the monoculture mentality. Also allows landowner to harvest a tree crop even if one of the species becomes diseased.

@tritchie6272

3 жыл бұрын

I watched a video of a guy in West Virginia who said he had been doing some Silvo pasturing before he even knew about it. He raises pigs so he seems to have a strong interest in various Oak trees. Although from what I understood he was keeping some other tree species as well. His timber plan,which I believe this video mentioned or hinted at, was to use some trees for Lumber as he thinned over time. He said he had no interest in clear cutting and the thinning and selling would take place over time. I thought it was funny when he said he had been doing some Silvo Pasturing and didn't even know it until somebody asked him about it and he started researching it.

Great KZread Channel, Great Information,

This would work even better with some system of managed rotational grazing, especially high density stocking with frequent moves using portable electric fences. The biodiversity, mineral, water, and nutrient cycling fostered by intensive grazing will benefit the trees as much as the forage. Also saves on petro-chemical fertilizers (damaging to soil life) and eliminates the need to mow.

@VikingMan44

3 жыл бұрын

If you watch the whole video, they do mention rotational grazing using electric fences.

@Puffenough666

2 жыл бұрын

@@VikingMan44 yep Jeff failed to watch the entire video. He talks about how he rotational grazes multiple times

Yes! Coppicing is a great technique. But some type of grazing and/or browsing between the trees is neccessary for the overall health of the eco-system on the property. The electric fence mimics the way wild herds bunch and move. Herders with dogs would be another way, but is unavailable to most in the USA. Have you seen Mark Shepard's 'Restoration Agriculture'?

The same things must be tried in concentric circles with a slight cliff like gradiation so that at the center point there can be a circular pond this will ensure water all the time and their effect upon timber quality can also be researched in addition to the existing ones.

great information, thanks

you should teach this all in my country

@downbntout

6 жыл бұрын

Ode Mayong you just learned it, sir

Love your inguinity .like your educational video.tq.sharing yr 3 decades of experience that others dont have.and schools dont teach.😍

Great video

id think this would work using tulip popular. they grow fast, straight, and big. a sought after lumber now adays

Bet I know how you got the trees replanted in the grazed areas after clearcut: you planted the young tree starts and kept the cattle off of them with two-strand hot wire fencing. The hooves snap roots of the stumps and their manure, both, speed up rotting of the stumps. Bet the easy harvest made for very short stumps too.

I wonder what could be done with fruit and nut trees, AND pine maybe black locust as well

I seen a silvopasture of bur oaks north of winnipeg, manitoba. I think those oaks are older than 30 years. Then again I'm not sure what a 30 year old bur oak looks like. They took most of the light and they were spaced pretty far apart. They looked pretty thick.

Which makes you more money there in FL, 100 pounds of beef or 100 pounds of goat? You can fence goats off the trees pretty easily, especially when you keep 'em full of other stuff. A few goats in with your cattle keeps unwanted plants like palmetto or vines out.

I'd burn some--for the charcoal for the soil. It's good stuff for the biology of the soil, and he's right that I doesn't break down. You don't want it to when you understand the soil food web.

Hmm, hardwoods would be cool. You could coppice rather than clear cutting.

My Question is the wildlife beneifits on silvopasture! Especially for deer and turkey??

we need agri forestry in puerto rico bring us lumber for charcoal and timber.

Yep, on contour with swales and more plant diversity in the micro-forest. I wish there was a way to get away from the mowing between the trees and the need tor even the electric fence you suggest..

Early on, George should have provide for wasp habitat since wasp are predators that would devour the wood infesting insects.

If anyone is close to Southeastern Michigan and needs help implementing this, let me know, I am more than willing to volunteer. Thanks

On the natur all exists for have a solution!!!!....it need (only!!...) to observ and apply... all exists, the right threes, the right grass, etc.., includes for the grounds whith salt... Goo by.. sorry for my writting...

I have to wonder about a "Century Pioneer Farm" that has been in the family for over 100 years for which they are still making bank payments each month. I think perhaps at some time in the last 100 years of which you are so proud; the family's focus should have been on paying down/off that interest accumulating debt.

@sherylpyers1719

3 жыл бұрын

They most probably borrowed against the farm( already owned it outright) in hard times.

@armymobilityofficer9099

3 жыл бұрын

We have not had debt for well over 100 years. My great grandfather said we pay cash.

but dont pine needles make soil more acidic?

Perinial water for cattle.

There is no selling of pine nuts. The branches are a good substrate for mushrooms. For which he could have been in partnership with a mushroom grower. It goes as well for raising worms. Goats could have raised and sold exclusively for Ramadan. There are so many revenue streams that George failed to seize.

@80krauser

2 жыл бұрын

We don’t have any pines that make nuts in America. They take over 50 years to be commercially viable, I want to say it’s closer to seventy.

nitergen

Wow.. i have big land.. but i have no money and knowlege to make my own agreforest farm

@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32

5 жыл бұрын

If you already have trees/forest on your land thin them out and hire or outsource your land to goat owners, goats will eat pretty much anything and will clear the underbrush.

@willieclark2256

5 жыл бұрын

You could thin thin the wood yourself and actually lease the land out to a cattle farmer and make instant money

@mottedreissig7874

5 жыл бұрын

You already have a little more knowledge than 37 min before. Make contact with people, who are involved with any kind of agriculture. Usually, they will be happy to share their knowledge. And maybe, someday, you will be sharing your knowledge.

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Why shouldn't you let your animals prune your branches for you?

I could see planting trees on your fencerows but this many trees will cut your grass growth in half at least

@luisvarney4949

7 жыл бұрын

really? there are grass species that are shade tolerant that would grow to the same height if not higher?

Too bad they don't use a native bunch grass and rotational grazing. If they did, they'd be covered up with quail and turkey.

Permaculture

You guys need some Goats