Tree-Powered Gardening with Andy Dibben and Ben Raskin | The Beet

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques chats with Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben, authors of Silvohorticulture. They dive into this innovative technique of planting trees alongside crops, turning trees into the garden's stars while enhancing crop production with the perfect balance of light, water, and soil. Tune in to learn how to bring this tree-powered magic to your own backyard! Connect with Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben: Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben design and manage agroforestry systems and have extensive experience in commercial horticultural crop production. Through observation, they have uncovered the benefits of trees for edible crops. This led to the development of crucial new information on how to fit trees into crop rotations, manipulating access to light. Their book, Silvohorticulture offers step-by-step instructions to manage trees and crops successfully. Find more from Ben Raskin at his website: https://www.benraskin.uk/ Find more from Andy Dibben at the Agricology website: https://agricology.co.uk/farmer-profiles/andy-dibben/ Find their book, Silvohorticulture here: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/silvohorticulture/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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