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Wild asparagus in olive orchards - Get more income from your orchard

Why plant asparagus?

High yielding olive trees need plenty of light and need to be spaced apart. Hence both traditional and super-high-density orchards intercept no more than 50-55% of the sunlight. The rest will fall on the ground and encourage weeds. Why, then, not plant another crop you can sell under the trees, to use that light?

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COPORCEL, Celtic Pigs in Silvopastoral Systems in Spain

The breed Celtic Pig (Porco Celta) was the most important swine breed in Galicia (NW Spain) until the beginning of the last century, when there was an important population decline, mainly due to importing other breeds with faster growth and higher performance.

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Mixed livestock browsing in holm oak montado

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)

Silvoarable agroforestry experiment with poplar and barley

Fattening pigs in willow Research Centre Foulum

Willow silvopasture

Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall

Walnut and Maize

Olive tree silvarable-pastoral system, near Viterbo, Italy

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Grape harvesting in between Sorbus domestica

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