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# Practice Guide

<h2 align="center">HOW to plant #SexyTrees right now!</h2>

Browse the topics below or ask Chiron in any language for anything you need help with.

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&#x20;This guide is written as interactively and simply as possible. It is a [bricolage protocol](/foundations/bricolage.md), which means it is updated regularly as our understanding evolves and the practice community expands.&#x20;

Throughout the manual, you'll find 🤓 emojis as nerd alerts on more advanced science. You will also find undecided emojis 🧐 to describe our active experiments where we're still making up our minds.&#x20;

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<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="image">Cover image</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h3><i class="fa-wheat" style="color:green;">:wheat:</i>  </h3></td><td><h4><strong>Inga alley cropping</strong></h4></td><td>Basic agroforestry implementation</td><td><a href="/pages/4bkDITG9fU9dxAMLy6fW">/pages/4bkDITG9fU9dxAMLy6fW</a></td><td data-object-fit="cover" data-alt="Inga edulis seedling regenerating between cut logs in tropical rainforest agroforestry — a nitrogen-fixing legume used in alley cropping to restore degraded land, suppress weeds, and build soil phosphorus on Amazon ultisols. Core species in pilot testing sites for Savimbo&#x27;s SexyTrees economic grassroots reforestation methodology in Putumayo, Colombia."><a href="/files/K0Pf6zBno5VLDcKm68o0">/files/K0Pf6zBno5VLDcKm68o0</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4> <i class="fa-bag-seedling" style="color:pink;">:bag-seedling:</i> </h4></td><td><h4><strong>Bokachi</strong></h4></td><td>Healthier seedlings with jungle tea </td><td><a href="/pages/5Prns51t618z8nxhtwIR">/pages/5Prns51t618z8nxhtwIR</a></td><td><a href="/files/MqhN1Is3nR3hzl3EEqif">/files/MqhN1Is3nR3hzl3EEqif</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4> <i class="fa-map-location-dot" style="color:orange;">:map-location-dot:</i></h4></td><td><h4><strong>Land &#x26; maps</strong></h4></td><td>Land rights, topography, and more</td><td><a href="/pages/FdAVHfWP4zISYsDwO2pM">/pages/FdAVHfWP4zISYsDwO2pM</a></td><td><a href="/files/kHE5CeiZfPDLDnsCiyih">/files/kHE5CeiZfPDLDnsCiyih</a></td></tr><tr><td><h3> <i class="fa-presentation-screen" style="color:blue;">:presentation-screen:</i> </h3></td><td><h4><strong>Biochar production</strong></h4></td><td>On-site low-tech biochar production</td><td><a href="/pages/sY809Cp8jUdtKtqwMxGt">/pages/sY809Cp8jUdtKtqwMxGt</a></td><td><a href="/files/tR69bUA464PFDhNVWZNN">/files/tR69bUA464PFDhNVWZNN</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-hand-holding-seedling" style="color:$success;">:hand-holding-seedling:</i></h4></td><td><h4><strong>Nurseries</strong></h4></td><td>Portible nurseries that can be built on site</td><td><a href="/pages/jz9iuA5p7tI8DB9CVRnq">/pages/jz9iuA5p7tI8DB9CVRnq</a></td><td><a href="/files/yhmksStNT39hQpZwucIL">/files/yhmksStNT39hQpZwucIL</a></td></tr><tr><td><h3><i class="fa-kiwi-fruit" style="color:orange;">:kiwi-fruit:</i></h3></td><td><h4><strong>Cash crops</strong></h4></td><td>Production crops our farmers prefer</td><td><a href="/pages/vzaYXlcyfeXMfcJEsqbP">/pages/vzaYXlcyfeXMfcJEsqbP</a></td><td><a href="/files/zTHPitYv5iO55rMEdzeE">/files/zTHPitYv5iO55rMEdzeE</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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### &#x20;Featured

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[What is Inga alley cropping?](/practice-guide/inga-agroforestry/inga-guamo-overview.md)
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### Popular articles

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### Humility

We are not agronomists or academic agroforestry experts. We are grassroots practitioners, friends of smallfarmers, curious Farmers' Almanac types, and people who love forests, who listen to a lot of good advice, put it into practice, and try to keep an open mind on what's working in the field, as well as what experts say (not always the same thing).&#x20;

### <i class="fa-presentation-screen">:presentation-screen:</i>asdf

Our main focus and area of expertise is improving the economics of grassroots scale. Obviously, we want to scale good systems (which is why we have collected this information like magpies). Ethically, if we have good systems, we feel a responsibility to share what we've learned publicly, and for free. However, we have to admit our inadequacies.

It's always possible that we made mistakes, mistranslated, or misunderstood. So we've done our best to give primary sources where possible, and give some example case studies of where we implemented and what we learned in the [Community](/practice-guide/community/field-schools.md), [Field schools](/practice-guide/community/field-schools.md), and [References](/references.md) sections


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