Disturbance drives agroforestry systems forward. Enjoying your shade? Itʻs time to take it down to allow higher succession species their sunlight. A wise oracle once said, “your system isn’t for you, itʻs for the trees.” Prune your systems often to keep them vigorous. Blast the under story with sun! When you discover the cycles of your system, you can open the sunlight right as the species are about to flower, inducing heavy flowering. Is our system bio diverse enough?

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These peppers are 5 years old, tired and ready to be reinvigorated. This video shows an experimental management on some senescent cocktail peppers. Take down the moringa above them and prune them down to sticks! Will they live after the relentless slasher comes through? Check out the video to find out!

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Syntropic Agroforestry management can be straightforward when you design the system effectively. Here we have a nice wide area along our fence line so we can have access and an area to work material. Notice how effectively the material comes down and dissipates as mulch into our cropping row. We do own the property next door, so we are not cutting our neighbors Cecropia, but our own trees. The coconuts and sugarcane will have much more sunlight now, the area is pruned and ready for a growth pulse. Next to finish up cutting trees on the hillside and mulch the other side of the row.

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As my first post, I will describe a few of the most helpful and most used tools in the garden. These tools are not necessary, but they do make life easier. You can find them new or used at garden stores, on Craigslist, from farmers markets, from friends or anywhere else.

Bucket – soil mixes, collecting weeds, carrying things

Machete – pushing back the forest or clearing an area for a garden bed

Sickle – cutting back mulch plants or overgrown weeds in a bed

Pruning Shears – harvesting, cutting back, deadheading

Hand trowel – planting, mixing soil

Gloves – hand safety (I do not use leather because of mold issues)

Tip: Keep your tools inside and clean them after use to prolong their life. I let my tools dry, then use a wire brush to clean, then move around in a box of sand to scrape final debris clean.