An agroforestry podcast and blog by the Savanna Institute
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...
🔊 “Perennial Dreams and Realities” – Keynote by Dr. Ricardo Salvador, 2022 Perennial Farm Gathering
Imagining the landscapes of the future should be accompanied by strategies to transform the present reality. What will it take to overcome the power of trillions of dollars of sunk costs in the current structure of agriculture? In the closing keynote of the 2022...
Savanna Institute Provides Public Input on Implementation of Inflation Reduction Act Funding at the USDA
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is a federal agency we work with often at the Savanna Institute. NRCS is a primary federal funder of agroforestry projects in the US, and Savanna Institute's Technical Service Providers regularly help farmers apply for...
🔊 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...
🔊 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 ago, hosts Dan Bresette and Emma Johnson interviewed Keefe Keeley,...
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,...
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...
🔊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 the last year or so, looking for examples of creative partnerships that people have come up with to help make their...
🔊 “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?”