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Demonstration Site Profile
Drinkers of the Wind
Bellevue, ID
147 varieties of fruit and nut trees and shrubs to date (that number includes multiple varieties of the same fruit - i.e. 15 apple varieties, etc). Have an Excel sheet if you want the nitty gritty.
Farm Information
Location:
Bellevue, ID
County:
Blaine
Context:
Rural
Land Tenure:
Own
Total Acres:
76
Other Practices:
Yes? But where's the line, really... Cover crops, berms/swales, pollinator plantings, no-till on our 20 ac hay field, working on a more efficient irrigation plan this summer...
Agroforestry Profile
Agroforestry Established:
2023
Agroforestry Acres:
76
Agroforestry Practices:
Windbreaks, Riparian Buffer, Alley Cropping, Forest Farming, Silvopasture, Food Forest
Do you offer tours, programming or events?
Working with local schools, offered berm/swale workshop while we were installing them in 2022, plan to start annual workshops this summer
Size of Agroforestry Practices:
Different practices implemented across our 76 acres. A mile+ of mature windbreak that we added food producing understory plantings to last year, ~20 acres of polyculture alley cropped orchards with at least one section we're going to experiment with as permanent silvopasture but using livestock throughout all of it seasonally, 3,000 trees/shrubs of 147 varieties planted last summer and more to come this year, starting some annual veggies/cut flowers among the orchard rows this year. ETC.
Contact Information
Brooke Bonner
208-481-0434
Farm Visitors
Visitors: By appointment only
Agroforestry Practice Details,
Production & Crops
147 varieties of fruit and nut trees and shrubs to date (that number includes multiple varieties of the same fruit - i.e. 15 apple varieties, etc). Have an Excel sheet if you want the nitty gritty.
Other Information
Support: Technical Assistance, implementation, grant cost share, funding, etc.
Barriers/Obstacles
Business, Marketing, sales
How did you get involved in agroforestry?
Future plans
Imported: May 2025, Updated: October 1, 2025
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