agroforestry

left|400pxAgroforestry is an approach to land cultivation that deliberatly creates interaction between pasture, crops, woody plants, and animals to reduce input costs, increase productivity, or increase ecosystem services. Agroforestry systems are designed to provide less yield of any one commodity, but to provide more goods and services per unit of land then if production was segregated by nesting several products within a single assemblage (such as timber and grazing). Agroforestry can be integrated with Riparian Buffering Functions or integrated into Stormwater installations.

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Source: agroforestry on Salish Sea Wiki