This guide is written as interactively and simply as possible. It is updated regularly as our understanding evolves and the practice community expands.
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.
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[What is Inga alley cropping?](/practice-guide/inga-alley-cropping/inga-guamo-overview.md)
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[What makes a good peer validator? ](/practice-guide/validation/peer-validator-criteria.md)
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[What is bokashi?](/practice-guide/bokashi/what-is-bokashi.md)
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[FPIC tips and tricks](/practice-guide/fpic/fpic-tips-and-tricks.md)
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[Inga seeds and planting](/practice-guide/inga-alley-cropping/inga-seeds-and-planting.md)
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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).
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 humility.
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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