Introduction to agroforestry With Eric Toensmeier and Ginny Patsun
Agroforestry systems combine trees and shrubs with other crops and/or livestock.
Agroforestry systems combine trees and shrubs with other crops and/or livestock. While common in the tropics and historically active here, agroforestry is a new idea to most of us in the eastern US and Canada today. Agroforestry provides impressive benefits including climate change mitigation and adaptation, soil health, and water quality. We’ll provide an overview of cold-climate systems including alley cropping (tree row strips in annual or perennial crop fields), silvopasture (trees in grazing land), forest farming or commercial multistory agroforestry (shade crops under trees), forested riparian buffers (along water bodies), pollinator hedgerows, and windbreaks. The class will include a tour of the 2-year-old alley cropping system at the farm.
Includes lunch.
$120, or $100 if before Sept 1. A few scholarships available for BIPOC people, contact us.
Click here to register on eventbrite.
Eric's co-instructor is Ginny Patsun, soil conservation specialist for North Central CT conservation district, and a certified arborist.
Agroforestry systems combine trees and shrubs with other crops and/or livestock.
Agroforestry systems combine trees and shrubs with other crops and/or livestock. While common in the tropics and historically active here, agroforestry is a new idea to most of us in the eastern US and Canada today. Agroforestry provides impressive benefits including climate change mitigation and adaptation, soil health, and water quality. We’ll provide an overview of cold-climate systems including alley cropping (tree row strips in annual or perennial crop fields), silvopasture (trees in grazing land), forest farming or commercial multistory agroforestry (shade crops under trees), forested riparian buffers (along water bodies), pollinator hedgerows, and windbreaks. The class will include a tour of the 2-year-old alley cropping system at the farm.
Includes lunch.
$120, or $100 if before Sept 1. A few scholarships available for BIPOC people, contact us.
Click here to register on eventbrite.
Eric's co-instructor is Ginny Patsun, soil conservation specialist for North Central CT conservation district, and a certified arborist.