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Vapor Pressure Deficits – Regenerating the Local Climate

Vapor Pressure Deficits – Regenerating the Local Climate

Avoiding bare ground by maximizing vegetation cover is crucial for reducing VPDs and increasing SOM. SOM enhances the soil’s ability to capture and retain rainfall, improve fertility, and prevent the erosion of fertile topsoil during heavy rain events. Adopting these regenerative organic practices is essential for reversing the trend of increasing adverse weather events and ensuring a productive future for our farming and ranching systems, as well as providing our civilization with healthy, nutritious, poison-free food. We can avoid repeating the past’s failures.

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Leuceana leucocephela as a shade tree for the veggie garden

Leuceana leucocephela as a shade tree for the veggie garden

Hi there,

I live in Greece, a Mediterranean climate of 450mm per year and (increasingly) hot summers. Our veggies are suffering in the direct sun and since I am still in the process of finishing the permaculture design in general I am thinking of adding some kind of light shade tree. They would be in the middle of the double reach veggie beds (90cm/3ft), but I don’t know if their roots are going to be interfering with the veggies too much. They will be no dig veggie beds, though I might still till a few times before finalising everything. Right now as it stands the whole veggie patch will be about 280m2 with three patches that will rotate between being a chook run and veggie garden. So one or two will have veggies and the remainder will be for the chooks. Then after one finishes we send the chooks to dig it up and start planting out the patch they just left.

I know there is people who have added shade trees to their veggie gardens but I am having difficulty finding anything on Leucaena specifically. I have a few hundred tiny seedlings coming up right now, which is the reason for asking about this species.

I am writing here because I know the tree has a long history in Australia and other places, but barely any history here in Greece.

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India: Jammu and Kashmir launch new poly greenhouse at Horticulture Department headquarters

India: Jammu and Kashmir launch new poly greenhouse at Horticulture Department headquarters

In a step towards promoting horticulture and doubling farmers’ income, Jammu and Kashmir’s Horticulture Department has established a poly greenhouse nursery at its district headquarters in Poonch under the Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP). The initiative supports Prime Minister Narendra…

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