Aug 2, 2023 | Course, Silvopasture, Tree Crops
My Year as an Agroforestry Apprentice with Red Fern Farm in Iowa Prior to 2022, I had worked in the service industry as a brewery taproom manager and beer distributor sales representative. I was fortunate to be one of those deemed “essential” during the COVID-19...
Aug 2, 2023 | Podcast, Silvopasture, Tree Crops
🔊 Top Three Agroforestry Mistakes To Avoid – with Red Fern Farm Tom Wahl and Kathy Dice, owners and operators of Red Fern Farm in southeastern Iowa, have been managing a hyper-diverse agroforestry system on their farm for decades. Podcast host Jacob Grace...
Mar 31, 2023 | Climate, Podcast, Silvopasture
🔊 Grazing on Solar Farms, Mobilizing Goats, and Finding Farm Dogs – with Aaron Steele A few months ago, one of my coworkers asked me if I knew anything about solar grazing. She said that with all of the solar farms going in, it seemed like a major opportunity to get...
Mar 9, 2023 | Podcast, Silvopasture, Tree Crops
🔊Shower Goats and Arctic Kiwis with Xinyuan Shi Xinyuan Shi spent 2020 as an Agroforestry Apprentice working with chestnut growers Greg and Amy Miller at Route 9 Cooperative in Ohio. Last year, Xinyuan joined the Savanna Institute staff as a research fellow to update...
Feb 1, 2023 | Podcast, Silvopasture
🔊 How NOT to Start a Farm – with Marie Raboin The Internet is overflowing with advice on how to farm. But sometimes knowing what NOT to do is even more valuable than hearing what worked for someone else one time. With that in mind, podcast host Jacob Grace...
Jan 16, 2023 | Climate, Podcast, Silvopasture
🔊 The Climate Conversation Podcast: Agroforestry and the Farm Bill Our most recent podcast episode is produced in collaboration with another great podcast, The Climate Conversation, which is produced by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI). A few weeks...