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November 2012 Blog Posts (1)

Agroforestry Field Day at the Big Flats Plant Materials Center

60 people attended "Working Trees in Agricultural Landscapes: An Introduction to Agroforestry" on November 16th at the USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center in Big Flats, NY (and 120 people attended the 3rd annual Cover Crops Field Day at the PMC on the prior day!) This inaugural agroforestry event at the PMC featured NRCS soil health advocate Ray Archuleta. Some of Ray's key messages throughout the two days were: "Farm in the image of Nature"; "Feed the soil"; and "Nature hates monocultures". …

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Added by Brett Chedzoy on November 20, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

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Are There Many Viable Careers in Agroforestry?

Started by Scott O'Bar. Last reply by Scott O'Bar 22 hours ago. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Most of my opinions about getting a job based on agroforestry / regenerative agriculture stem from the time I was fresh out of college a little over one decade ago.At that time I was considering…Continue

Pasture-in-the-woods forestry consulting in PA

Started by Robbie Coville May 24. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Hello folks. Are there any consultants here who advise and plan forestry thinning for silvopasture in PA? Or can you point me in the direction of anyone who provides those services in PA? Thank you!Continue

Need input whether I should chip tree limbs vs burning

Started by Mark E. Kunnemann. Last reply by Mark E. Kunnemann May 15. 6 Replies 0 Likes

I live in south central Texas on 21 very wooded acres. I have a plan to thin the trees to open up the canopy for allowing grasses to grow. I have 31 large piles of brush which I had planned to burn,…Continue

Biochar by-products from silvopasture thinnings

Started by Brett Chedzoy. Last reply by Scott O'Bar May 14. 4 Replies 0 Likes

In 2020, a local grazier friend did an intensive thinning on 70 acres of mature woods to create silvopasture. Learning from other's past mistakes (including mine) of leaving too much logging debris…Continue