Blocks '93 Experiment
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The field station/house, built in 1994. |
Nearby farm where Inga, a
tropical legume tree, is interplanted with coffee
shrubs. Inga provides nitrogen and
shade to the coffee. |
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Legumes are often
facilitators of early natural succession. Here the Inga interplanted with coffee has been pruned, providing a large biomass litter layer. |
Another nearby farm where coffee has been interplanted with a relative of Gliricidia, a native legume tree. |
Leonel preparing Gliricidia
estacas for Blocks'93 experiment.
Although Inga,
beans, Terminalia
and the cover crops were from seed,
Gliricidia
can be started from large cuttings like these.