Regenerative Riverscape Agroforestry Design Charrettes
To support the Skykomish Bio-Cultural Restoration Field Station, NOAA, Snohomish Conservation District, The Ecosystem Guild and other partners began hosting day-long workshops on the Reiner Farm. “Regenerative riverscape agroforestry” is a term-of-art for the science and craft of regenerating complex native vegetation that restores biodiversity and ecosystem functions, while generating a useful harvest for households. This involves the application of agroforestry (and of particular interest, strategies like Syntropic Agroforestry) to the restoration of Riparian Buffer Functions. It aims ot develop biodiverse Vegetation that employs humans as a beneficial Vegetation Processes. These practices require cultural sophistication, discipline, and learning once common in Tribal communities before settlement and settler degradation of tribally managed ecosystems. Our goal is to create opportunities for local communities to be proactive and empowered in the restoration and tending vegetation in Riverscapes, while building a community of practice among restoration practitioners, foresters, agroforesters and wildcrafters.Charrette’ = A collaborative planning or design session often involving interested third parties, in which problems relating to a proposed design project are discussed and solutions adopted in a limited time frame.
Relationships
- broader: agriculture;socioeconomics
- broader: vegetation
- related to: The Polycene
- related to: agroforestry
- related to: cereghino 2015 working buffers info sheet
- related to: noaa
- related to: reiner farm
- related to: riparian buffers
- related to: riverscapes
- related to: skykomish field stationknotweed control experiments
- related to: snohomish conservation district
- related to: syntropic agroforestry
- related to: the ecosystem guildsite steward apprenticeship
- related to: tribal
- related to: vegetation processes
- related to: working buffer pilot project
- related to: yeomans 1958 the challenge of landscape
Source: Regenerative Riverscape Agroforestry Design Charrettes on Salish Sea Wiki