Apr 17, 2024 | Donors, Reports
Our Latest Perennial Report Future generations will look back at this time to see the seeds we have passed on and the trees we have planted as archives of our love, to use the phrase Ross Gay offered us at the 2023 Perennial Farm Gathering. These days, thinking in...
Apr 17, 2024 | Giving, Reports
A Letter from Canopy Farm Management As Canopy enters its third year of providing tree planting and management services in the Midwest, the transformative impact of trees and the revitalization of our farms are becoming increasingly apparent. While we are still early...
Jun 13, 2023 | Policy, Reports
Building Agroforestry Through Community in Illinois Agroforestry is a viable natural climate solution that landowners can adopt right now to increase climate-smart agriculture in the region. Planting trees in pasture, along waterways, and in alley cropping systems...
Apr 20, 2023 | Giving, Reports
Our 10-Year Perennial Report This past harvest season was a special one. The first orchard trees I planted had finally grown big enough to climb. And at four years old, my daughter was ready to be a big kid and climb up and away. Even better, it was the first real...
Apr 19, 2023 | Canopy, Reports
Canopy’s First Year Well, there it is: Canopy’s inaugural year is in the books! And what a memorable year it was. We launched right into the worst of the supply chain crisis of early 2022, which delayed orders of carefully chosen equipment, followed by one of...
🔊 “You Can’t Believe It Grows Here” – Project Pawpaw with Adam D’Angelo
🔊 A Thorny Topic: Black Locust and Honey Locust for Agroforestry
🔊 “Spreadsheets on the Radio” – Farm Viability and the Fruit & Nut Compass with John Hendrickson
🔊 Getting Started with Forest Farming – Ingrid Daudert, Karam Sheban, and Robin Suggs
🔊 Agroforestry for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – with Nate Lawrence and Monika Shea