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Vadakste Biodiversity Forest: Edible landscape, Latvia
Fruit trees interplanted in a thinned out forest, Vadakste.
barrier for these hardworking pollinators and
other insects.
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Mycorrhiza collaborations with native trees effi
ciently help the planted trees find water and
nutrients, while the constant production of
organic matter from a diversity of roots, trunks
and leaves contributes to a fertile soil, improving plant survival and stress tolerance.
Furthermore, the land includes;
An open field, sparsely spread, orchard like
alleycropping system with walnut (Juglans regia),
chestnut trees (Castanea sativa), hazel bushes (Corylus avellana), and fruit trees with common/black
alders (Alnus glutinosa) as nurse trees, (without
Black
walnut (Juglans nigra).
Sid 19-20
crops in between the tree lines). Urine is used to
water around these trees and on fence poles, in
order to keep wild-life away. The growth of the
saplings in the open field, compared to in the
forest system, is somewhat slower.
A mixed pioneer forest on former forest pastures
with silver birch and weeping downy birch (Betula
pendula, B. pubescens), spruce (Picea abies) and
patches of walnut trees in the understorey.
A stand of spruce ready for felling, which is gradually being thinned out to invite natural, broadleaf
vegetation. Part of the thinned out areas are planted with linden, maple, black alder and seeded
with linden, maple, sycamore maple (Acer pseu-
Valnöt under
och
björkunder spruce and birch.
(Juglansgran
regia)
planted
Walnuts
