Land Regeneration

What if you could graze animals, harvest crops, and restore the land all at the same time without chemical additions to the soil?

Here is the future of farming (agroforestry):

Silvopasture/Silviculture

Where domestic animals rotationally forage and graze in a sustainably managed forest that mimics the patterns and relationships found in Nature.

Alley Cropping

Plantings along rows of more permanent crop production like nut or fruit crops, food forest, lumber and/or forage with alley ways in between rows with rotational crops planted and harvested until the forest matures.

In southern France, walnut trees mark the alley boundaries where wheat is harvested in between them. Source photo: AGROOF

Mark Shepard's New Forest Farm, Oak Savannah in Wisconsin, USA.

Alley cropping doesn't need to be straight.

In Alberta, several farms have integrated various agroforestry/restoration agriculture methods successfully. These include shelter belts, silvopasture, alley cropping and riparian/eco buffer strips using bioregion specific plants.

Are you interested in ensuring wetlands and waterways on your land are clean, healthy, and continue flowing?

Riparian Buffer Strips/Eco-Buffers

Plantings of perennial vegetation bordering waterways (large and small) designed to conserve the shoreline and keep the water clean from agricultural run-off, reduce the impacts of floods and slow stream bank erosion.

Riparian buffer strip in Iowa, USA. Photo source: USDA

Integrate all these systems with edible plants to create a self-sustaining, multi-functional giant garden with a surplus for humans and animals alike. All this while restoring the soil, keeping water clean, redirecting the force and flow of wind, reducing fire hazards through water infiltration in the land, and connecting more deeply and wholly with the Natural World.

These projects bring communities together and restore large sections of land to a thriving ecosystem. At Noster Nature, we design the living systems, help implement the plans and let Nature take over to adapt and evolve the process. In some jurisdictions, there may be grants available to design and implement these larger scale projects.

Are you interested in restoring landscapes to their original beauty or to what they want to evolve to next?

Land Restoration for the Greater Good

This type of restoration is by far the most difficult to fund and yet the most rewarding to plant. What seems like Nature for Nature's sake, in the end, is directly related to our well being and the well being of the Earth that sustains us.

Some examples of large and small scale restoration projects we can implement in harmony with all aspects of the landscape include the restoration of:

Deforested Landscapes

Volcanic Landscapes

Monoculture Fields

Flooded Landscapes

Lawn

Compacted Soil

The intent is to partner with the landscape to build relationships with all the features we interact with to create living, abundant, and thriving ecosystems. Nature takes over to adapt and evolve the systems.

Contact us to co-create custom, regenerative designs for what appear to be difficult landscapes to restore. Our focus is on cold climate regenerative design.