This is the initial part of a design for a commercial farm in Vietnam, where the owner wishes to implement agroforestry and permaculture principles to improve carbon sequestration and sustainability on site, and boost biodiversity, while also earning an income as a viable business.
Slow, Steady Solutions for Sustainable Transition
A work in progress, this design focusses on the need to blend commercial interest with long-term viability and the permaculture ethics of planet care, people care and fair share. The concept design shown above marks the transition phase of the project, after extensive tree planting and the partial re-ordering of the farm’s current field layout.
The farm is currently a struggling mixed arable and livestock farm with degraded land in Vietnam, close to the Cambodia border, that requires fairly extensive remediation after a few years of neglect.
An Exemplar of Sustainable Agriculture for the Region
The site is surrounded by farmland in a similar state and one of the goals of the project is to encourage others in the area to take a more sustainable agricultural approach.
The proposed solutions include adding and restoring native forest areas, and creating a series of agroforestry zones, including layered food forest planting, silvo-arable and silvo-pasture fields for mixed livestock in rotation.
Further food production, increased biodiversity, greater resilience and a range of other benefits are provided within the design by the interlinked pond system that I have suggested creating where water naturally pools during the deluges of the wet season.
I am working with my client to develop a plan to reach the point shown in the above design, in a phased process. Of course, the above drawing is just one part of the delivered design, created after careful remote site analysis and client interview.
If you are interested to explore on your own property how commercial agroforestry could be the right sustainable agriculture solution for you, please do get in touch.
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