Tree Crops

People touring a maple tree grove.

“You Should Consider Maple Syrup Production” – with Tony Johnson

In our latest podcast episode, I talk with Tony Johnson, a forester with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension whose work is focused on supporting maple syrup production in the state. Tony believes that maple syrup production can be a great gateway for people into the world of agroforestry, and that it can pave the way for agroforestry practices like forest farming, mushroom cultivation, and edible buffers and windbreaks.
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Black Currants on a branch.

Black Currants: A Once-Forbidden Fruit

Kevin Wolz: Here in the US, around the year 1900, the black currant industry was about as large as the blackberry industry is today. Blackberries are not the most common fruit, but everyone knows what a blackberry is, and you can buy them in basically any store. And that’s what black currants were like at around the turn of the century in 1900.
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