Polyculture is agriculture whereby you grow multiple crops in the same space, providing crop diversity in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture.
It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping. It is the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal. Polyculture is one of the core principles of permaculture.
But do polycultures really work? I planted many vegetables in one garden bed to see what would happen. What I learned was surprising. Can you mimic a forest with annual vegetables? Are food forests the best kept secrets or just utopia? I also share a delicious stirfry. Check it out below…
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