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Eric Schellenberg

Eric Schellenberg

Commercial Horticulture and Natural Resources Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension; owner of Black Creek Farm & Nursery; permaculture and syntropic agroforestry specialist focused on sustainable land management and habitat improvement.

Jun 16, 2026

11:36
So I want you to go back to the, you know, how do you integrate these, you know, pioneer species into these plantings? How do you prune them? And then, you know, what are the things that you're seeing, just an observation that you think is relevant for the listeners? Yeah.
11:50
So as far as pruning, there's no one simple answer.
11:55
But the first thing is to evaluate how much time you have and what you want to get out of it.
12:00
Because I'll lay out two different ideas here.
12:05
First of all, let's say you're really interested in the mass production.
12:10
You're interested in the fruit.
12:12
And maybe you could be convinced to plant some other trees in between them if it was going to increase the vigor and the health of your fruit trees, but you don't want to do any more work than you have to.

7 MINS LATER

19:29
Are other trees that are being pruned, do they react similar to these high biomass producing species? Are they different in function when it comes to being pruned? Do they become selfish? What's the theory around that?

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