Walking onion | Roles:
- Similar to native Alliums
(w/ higher yields)
- Root pest deterrent
(Spring beauty companion)
- Strawberry pest deterrent
- Bulb root structure
(niche partitioning)
- Provide some shade (understory)
- Edible herbs, bulbs, and bulblets

American licorice | Roles:
- Native pollinator attractor
- Nitrogen fixation
- Lygus bug, a strawberry pest, trap (hypothesis)
- Deep taproot
- Provide some shade (overstory)
- Edible root made into tea

Guild 1:
- Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)
- Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)
- Walking onion (Allium × proliferum)
- American licorice (Glycyrrhiza lepidota)

The two major priorities of my plant guilds are native biodiversity and food production. A difficult balancing act.

I'll be posting here about my work designing and testing permaculture plant guilds (or perennial polycultures) in Canada Zone 3.