Swidden agriculture, often termed slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation, encompasses cycles of clearing forested land by cutting and burning, cultivating ...
Forest Gardens
A regenerative farm & permaculture education center on Salt Spring Island. Soil amendments, nursery plants, farm produce & design courses — growing in service to life.
Thinning
This page highlight research produced in British lumbia focused on tree thinnning as it relates to forestry practices.
Diversification and ecosystem services for conservation agriculture: Outcomes from pastures and integrated crop–livestock systems | Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems | Cambridge Core
Diversification and ecosystem services for conservation agriculture: Outcomes from pastures and integrated crop–livestock systems - Volume 28 Issue 2
A social-ecological framework for analyzing and designing integrated crop–livestock systems from farm to territory levels
Integrated crop–livestock systems are often considered a promising way to address agricultural sustainability issues. Many authors claim that complementarities and synergies between crops and livestock can improve nutrient cycling and delivery of ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural systems. They have analyzed effects of interactions at the farm level and affirmed the potential advantage of developing crop–livestock interactions at the territory level. However, potential benefits of developing synergies beyond the farm level have not been clearly identified. Thus, we developed a conceptual framework that can be used to analyze, design and perform integrated assessment of crop–livestock systems at the territory level. To address crop–livestock interaction issues, we define it as a social-ecological system called the territorial crop–livestock system (TCLS). The ecological system is represented as three interacting components, crops, grasslands and animals, allowing description of various land uses and their potential effects on nutrient cycling and ES. The social system, represented as farmers interacting with natural-resource managers and agro-food chain actors, determines land use and the nature and intensity of ES delivered. We highlight the importance of coordination and learning among actors to support implementation of complex adaptive systems such as TCLSs. We illustrate the expressive power of our conceptual framework through development of a generic typology of crop–livestock systems. Then we show how our conceptual framework can be used as an intermediary object with stakeholders in participatory design approaches. We illustrate this process by representing four archetypal TCLSs. We provide an example of the design approach implemented in Southwestern France to address severe recurrent water shortages, which includes analysis of land use in the current crop–livestock system and the associated key metabolic and ES issues, identification of options for change and multi-criteria analysis of these options. We conclude that this framework shows great potential to support development of sustainable farming systems at the territory level.
https://www.thegardensaltspring.com/The Garden Salt Spring Island | cold-hardy citrus & avocado production in Canada | growing healthy soils & nutrient dense food | anaerobic digestion & Johnson-Su
The Garden is an innovative farm in Canada's Pacific Southwest. It focuses on developing resource-efficient systems for greenhouse and orchard production. It applies regenerative practices for on-farm nutrient cycling. The farm operates a small-scale anaerobic digester, has extensive rainwater catchment, and assesses progress with on-farm analysis of soil and plants using Soil Food Web microscopy, brix, and off-farm leaf sap analysis. Visit our blog, YouTube channel and workshop opportunities.
Autonomous Forest | LAS Art Foundation
Autonomous Forest is a living work of art and a new techno-legal entity that reimagines ecological regeneration
Crop is Stardew Valley except you arrive at your farm naked and in the boot of a car
If Stardew Valley is a cosy farming game the Crop is a what you get if you make it a horror farming game.
GainForest — Biodiversity Observations & Nature Projects
Explore field observations, biodiversity records, and nature projects from communities and organizations using GainForest.
GainForest — Biodiversity Observations & Nature Projects
Explore field observations, biodiversity records, and nature projects from communities and organizations using GainForest.
GainForest — Biodiversity Observations & Nature Projects
Explore field observations, biodiversity records, and nature projects from communities and organizations using GainForest.
Some recent developments in controlled-environment agriculture: on plant physiology, sustainability, and autonomous control
In this review, we highlight some recent developments in controlled-environment agriculture (CEA), discuss its sustainability and provide a future outlook, mainly based on recently published work f...
A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing More With Satellite Imagery
Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as mining activity and changes in vegetation.
Nate on Twitter / X
OSTP just released 'Science: A New Golden Age' — 72 pages modeled on Vannevar Bush's 1945 report. I read the whole thing. It's remarkably good.The sharpest insight is on page 60. AI could do to science what fire suppression did to forests: make each individual tree safer while…— Nate (@NateWBradford) July 21, 2026
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
Agriculture research summaries
Read short summaries of agricultural studies tailored to B.C. farmers and producers.