An agroforestry podcast and blog by the Savanna Institute

Planting a Food Forest: Adventures with Kids and Berries

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 a food forest in a town park. I was inspired by the...

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🔊 How NOT to Start a Farm – with Marie Raboin

🔊 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 visited Marie Raboin, a beginning farmer in southern...

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Ten Resources to Help You Start Grazing

Ten Resources to Help You Start Grazing

This post was produced in collaboration with Grassland 2.0.  Well-managed grazing practices can be profitable, enjoyable, and good for the land. As you get started grazing, nothing will be more valuable to you than talking with other graziers, and grazing specialists,...

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Ten Years Growing Agroforestry

Ten Years Growing Agroforestry

Agroforestry is a powerful and essential strategy for putting trees to work on farms and stabilizing the climate. Once mature, an acre of hazelnuts can sequester 18 tons of carbon in woody biomass alone. Think of the impact we will have as perennial crops like...

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🔊 “Is This Really A Dairy Farm?” Ask-a-Farmer with Greg Galbraith

🔊 “Is This Really A Dairy Farm?” Ask-a-Farmer with Greg Galbraith

Greg Galbraith has spent most of his life managing a dairy farm in Marathon County, Wisconsin. His farming career involved shifting his dairy operation to a grazing-based system, transitioning to organic practices, and finally passing on the farm to a new generation of organic dairy graziers. By the end of his farming tenure, his farm had so much perennial cover that people would often ask him, “Is this really a dairy farm?”

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