EP 440: Maximize Garden Yield Now: Food Forest Principles (Syntropic Agroforestry)

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today we’re learning how we can grow MORE food with LESS work by using food forests with my guest Takota Coen. This podcast includes information about what a food forest is, how they're restorative to nature, and how you can grow one no matter what climate or growing zone you're in. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit https://melissaknorris.com/440.

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0:00.0	Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 440. Today's episode we are going to
0:12.1	to be talking about creating food forests.
0:16.5	So in previous episodes we have talked about silver pasture, we've talked about permaculture,
0:22.1	but food forests, particularly with centropic agroforestry,
0:28.0	and a super big word, I was really happy I pronounced it correctly, is a little bit different and how that is different I think you're really going to enjoy this episode
0:37.6	Gave some great food for thought no matter if you are doing
0:42.0	Food Forest if you're doing food forest, if you're doing orchards, if you're doing permaculture,
0:46.1	if you're for pasture management and the vegetable garden. So it really all aspects of growing food on the homestead there. This can apply to. I think you're really going to enjoy it. As we were going through the interview, I was already mentally making notes on things that I was going to apply both to the pasture and our regular
1:07.2	gardening aspects. So today's guest is Dakota and he is a permaculture designer, author and second generation organic
1:16.6	farmer of Cohen Farm, an award-winning 250-acre permoculture Farm.
1:23.0	Dakota is also the co-founder of Building Your Homestead,
1:26.0	where he and his colleagues work with homesteaders
1:28.2	to build thriving, thoughtfully designed properties
1:31.3	that nourished families and communities with a focus on freedom and abundance.
1:37.6	We are going to jump straight into this episode because there is a lot of really good food for thought nuggets big surprise there pun intended
1:47.3	that I think you're going to enjoy it we packed a lot into this episode as a reminder there are some resources, some authors, some
1:55.3	different things that Dakota lists out and recommends. Those will be in the
1:59.0	blog post that accompanies today's episode which you can find at Melissa K
2:03.5	Norris.com forward slash 440 episode number 440
2:09.8	or if you're watching this on YouTube as the podcast version, you'll see lists and links to those items under the video description.
2:18.6	Okay, without further ado, here is the interview.
2:22.1	Well, hi Dakota, welcome to the Here is the interview.
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