forest farming: seeing the forest for more than just the trees - presented by steve gabriel
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Farming the Woods:
Seeing the Forest for More than Just the Trees
Permaculture Voices March 7, 2015
Books available through the book vendor!
or online at: FarmingtheWoods.com
For slides: /2015conference
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WellspringForestFarm.com
Water in the Landscape May 2 & 3
Building Living Soil June 27
Forestry & Agroforestry Short Course July 24 - 28
Through: FingerLakesPermaculture.org
Wellspring Forest Farm Mecklenburg, NY
Mushrooms & Maple Syrup Pastured Ducks & Sheep Homestead Production Water Catchment Off-Grid
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1620 1850
1920 Today
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PA 58% NY 62% MA 63% VT 78% NH 89% ME 90%
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2: Historical Context
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2: Historical Context
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Forests are a living library, a story of a place over Cme
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anas Nin , others
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Tree Sap drinking in Korea
gorosoe, or tree good for the bones.
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Mushrooms as a surplus of forest health
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Wine Cap Stropharia Stropharia-rugoso-annulata
Oyster
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1. Substrate Harvest 2. Inoculation
3. Colonization 4. Harvesting
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Forcing Shiitake
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VALUE ADDED
PRODUCTS =
ZERO CROP LOSS
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Shiitake Economics Costs including labor = about $5/log
Profits = $5/year or $15 20 per log over lifeCme
An opera>on that inoculated around 100 logs per year un>l reaching 500 logs could be expected to make a profit in year two, and $4,000/year profit in year five.
Total profit over the five years = $9,000
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Permaculture + Academia
CornellMushrooms.org
A perfect union?: Why permaculture and academia need each other Permaculture Activist, XX 2014
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Current Trends About 60 growers and 18,000 logs in producCon in Northeast US
Average of $5,637 income per grower/year These growers project to triple their produc>on over next three years
89% report far more demand than supply
3 year Goal: 250 growers X $5k = $1,250,00
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The real gem: Stacking Agroforestry Systems
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Hickory Nut Milk
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MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
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MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
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Paw Paw, Asimina triloba
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MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Elderberry
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Elderberry
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Juicing
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$2 5 /oz
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Aronia chokeberry
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MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Stropharia
Elderberry
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MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Stropharia
Willow
Elderberry
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Riparian Buffers
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Calcium
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Silvopasture
Shade benefits
Multiple income streams
Fertility Cycling
Doing work you dont want to!
Very appropriate on much of NE lands
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Angus Glen Farm, Watkins Glen NY
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25 years old and has now been thinned 3x for about $1500/acre of fence posts (using value of $5/post)
MulCple Income Streams
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25 years old and has now been thinned 3x for about $1500/acre of fence posts (using value of $5/post)
MulCple Income Streams
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Doing the work you dont want to!
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Badgersett Research Farm, Canton MN
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Integration Acres, Athens OH
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LOGS LOGS
DUCKS DUCKS
Portable Electronet Fence Ducks visit in May, July, Sept
7 12 day rotation
Overall population reduction, not picking slugs off logs
Also rotated in pasture before sheep, gardens, cover
cropped areas
And eggs, too!
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Maple Syrup, Shiitake Mushrooms, Ducks, and Ginseng $7,000 grossed on 1 acre in 2014
www.wellspringforestfarm.com
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FarmingTheWoods.com CornellMushrooms.org
WellspringForestFarm.com
Water in the Landscape May 2 & 3
Building Living Soil June 27
Forestry & Agroforestry Short Course July 24 - 28
Through: FingerLakesPermaculture.org
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Design AcJvity:
Stacked Agroforestry
for your ecotype
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Wellspring Forest Farm Mecklenburg, NY
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1. Identify Ecotype
2. Determine Marketable Species
3. Mimic in structure + function
Get into groups of 3 4 people.
Propose a feasible agroforestry system of 3 - 5 species for an ecotype in
your climate
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FarmingTheWoods.com CornellMushrooms.org
WellspringForestFarm.com
Water in the Landscape May 2 & 3
Building Living Soil June 27
Forestry & Agroforestry Short Course July 24 - 28
Through: FingerLakesPermaculture.org
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