Branch stacking

Traditional produce gardens borrow heavily from commercial agriculture practices: they use monocultures with lines of the same plants arranged in widely spaced rows. Whether we’re talking about rows of vegetables, berry plants or fruit trees, it’s pretty much the same.

We need to ask the question: does a broadacre agricultural model really scale down that effectively to a backyard?

Commercial farms plant this way for convenience, not sustainability. Wide spacing allows for the use of agricultural machinery and mass plantings are employed to produce enormous quantities of the same crop all at once.

This may be sound rationale in an industrial