Okfuskee is the 20-acre R&D farm designed and operated by BODHI president Bobby Tucker and family since 2008 to develop techniques and plant selections for broad-acre permaculture systems in the Piedmont region. Over the past ten years, Bobby has intentionally planted over 4,000 woody plant species — mostly native — while allowing the natural regeneration of pioneer and understory trees through planned rest and grazing periods. The farm includes various low-input cropping systems easily scalable to larger lands, coupled with unique livestock integration methods for low-input land management and soil building.
Project elements
- Mixed agroforestry: silvopasture, Keyline-based alley cropping, hedgerow plantings, swale/berm
- No-kill/no-till cropping with high-biomass cover crops, roll-down mulching, rotational grazing, and no-till planting of dent corn, winter squash, sweet sorghum, and southern peas
- Perennial cash crops: asparagus, sunchokes, Asian/European pears, southern apples, elderberry, paw paw, mulberry, native plum, persimmon, Chinese chestnut, southern pecan
- Sheep: managed intensive grazing for open-land management, soil building, and invasive species control
Site & supporting imagery
Additional site plans and field photography available on request.