As part of ILEIA’s efforts to promote the documentation of field-based experiences, this booklet describes 18 different methods, including approaches such as participatory videos or story guides. It also presents the work of 18 projects and organisations, as online references.

Using strip cropping residues and cover crops, cattle can be finished for slaughter, reducing supplemental feed requirements while increasing soil nitrogen fertility.

Weed borders are used in an agroecosystem to attract insects, facilitating colonization in the adjacent cauliflower crop.

Soils in California organic vineyards contain clues to the biocontrol of grape phylloxera, an aphid-like insect that is potentially the most serious grape pest in the world.

Remnants of ancient canals and raised beds in the lowlands of Quintana Roo, Mexico demonstrate techniques of wetland farming that were sustained for more than 1000 years.

Wild mustard covercrops can control weeds and improve nitrogen cycling in apple orchards.

Mixed cover cropping with Rye and Bellbeans benefits agroecosystems by interspecies interactions.

Mixing broccoli and lettuce in an intercrop creates complementary patterns of resource use.

Introducing flowering plants into agroecosystems increases pollen and nectar resources that stimulate populations of the natural enemies of insect pests.

The Cajete terrace system of collecting water and reducing soil erosion has been in use since pre-Hispanic times (1000 B.C.). Particularly important in present agriculture practices where people must grow their food on steep, erosion prone slopes.