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While new banana trees will take a few years to reach maturity, other crops can be interplanted in between the seedlings in a newly planted field to take advantage of the space and the sun. In this field, Finca Consciencia grows eggplants in between…

At Plenitud, planting is done in polycultures, with multiple types of plants interspersed and supporting one another, rather than monoculture, with just one crop planted in rows. In a small section of any garden bed, there could be a mix of perennial…

Interplanting a variety of species, including fruit trees, leguminous nitrogen fixers, annual greens and vegetables and herbs can make Plenitud's garden beds seem unorganized. However, interplanting allows for biodiverse "plant guilds", where…