Mar 15, 2023 | Climate, Podcast, Tree Crops
🔊 New Forest Farm Tour with Mark Shepard When you talk with someone who’s familiar with agroforestry in the Midwest, the name “Mark Shepard” usually comes up pretty quickly. Mark’s book Restoration Agriculture was published ten years ago this year, and through...
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 20, 2023 | Climate, Tree Crops
Planting a Food Forest: Adventures with Kids and Berries This essay was recently published by staff member Bill Davison on his blog, Easy by Nature. I reached out to municipal officials in my hometown in the fall of 2015 to propose that we work together to establish...
Dec 19, 2022 | Podcast, Silvopasture, Tree Crops
🔊Partnering for Agroforestry, Part II: Nettle Valley Farm, Southern Ohio Chestnut Company, and Delight Flower Farm The latest episode of our podcast features more farmers from our Partnering for Agroforestry video series! This is a project we’ve been working on for...
Aug 31, 2022 | Podcast, Tree Crops
🔊“A Growth Mindset for Agroforestry” – featuring Bill Davison A few months ago I got to talk to Bill Davison, a Savanna Institute staff member based in central Illinois. Bill works to develop value chains for Midwest tree crops, and has recently been...