Mixed Cropping

Pictured here are hedges that I have used across our house site to reduce grass-mowing maintenance and to grow trees usually a year or two later. Using the biomass production of the Vetiver to mulch out and shade the surrounding pasture grasses, as a pioneer, creates an ideal spot for tree planting. Visible are Citrus, Eucalypt pollards (for short pole production/mulch), and Persimmon. Other fruit trees further back behind Olive with Vetiver hedges in the same pattern.