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- noun The
planting of two or morecrops in the same place
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Examples
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Today, Søren operates a polyculture producing renowned asparagus, multiple varieties of cabbage, legumes and even better carrots.
René Redzepi: 'What we eat matters. There's no conflict between a better meal and a better world' 2011
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One thing is our BEST insurance against the spread/distribution of malicious viral agents that doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater: an application and platform polyculture.
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That is, as platforms and applications that use those multiple and diverse platforms increase, we gain something imminently desirable in terms of the larger Internet/cyberculture ecosystem: an application/platform polyculture as opposed to a monoculture.
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For example, restoring degraded pasture land to polyculture grasslands and using some of the biomass from these fields could produce soil, water, wildlife and climate benefits.
Nathanael Greene: Love Forests? Learn to Love Fighting for Stricter Biomass Regulations Nathanael Greene 2011
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Let's create an online culture where they all can thrive and be used viably, because market diversity creates an essential polyculture that renders malicious viral agents impotent. mgmt
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For example, restoring degraded pasture land to polyculture grasslands and using some of the biomass from these fields could produce soil, water, wildlife and climate benefits.
Nathanael Greene: Love Forests? Learn to Love Fighting for Stricter Biomass Regulations Nathanael Greene 2011
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We planted olive trees, cover crops and insectaries to create a healthy polyculture.
Mike Benziger: Water: The Lifeblood in the Body of a Biodynamic Winery Mike Benziger 2010
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Having a farm that is a natural polyculture with both animals and plants is the best way.
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The large home garden she maintains each year integrates sustainable practices such as planting cover crops during the winter, hand tilling in the spring, polyculture planting, weeding by hand, and never applying any chemical additives, such as fertilizers or pesticides.
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Thus one hectare of polyculture produces what 1.62 hectares of monoculture can produce.
Stan Goff: It's Not Rocket Science: Land Productivity, Food Rights 2009
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