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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
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
1620 1850
1920 Today
PA 58% NY 62% MA 63% VT 78% NH 89% ME 90%
2: Historical Context
2: Historical Context
Forests are a living library, a story of a place over Cme
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anas Nin , others
Tree Sap drinking in Korea
gorosoe, or tree good for the bones.
Mushrooms as a surplus of forest health
Wine Cap Stropharia Stropharia-rugoso-annulata
Oyster
1. Substrate Harvest 2. Inoculation
3. Colonization 4. Harvesting
Forcing Shiitake
VALUE ADDED
PRODUCTS =
ZERO CROP LOSS
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
Permaculture + Academia
CornellMushrooms.org
A perfect union?: Why permaculture and academia need each other Permaculture Activist, XX 2014
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
The real gem: Stacking Agroforestry Systems
Hickory Nut Milk
MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Paw Paw, Asimina triloba
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MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Elderberry
Elderberry
Juicing
$2 5 /oz
Aronia chokeberry
MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Stropharia
Elderberry
MacDaniels Nut Grove Forest Farm at Cornell University
Black Walnut
Pawpaw
Stropharia
Willow
Elderberry
Riparian Buffers
Calcium
Silvopasture
Shade benefits
Multiple income streams
Fertility Cycling
Doing work you dont want to!
Very appropriate on much of NE lands
Angus Glen Farm, Watkins Glen NY
25 years old and has now been thinned 3x for about $1500/acre of fence posts (using value of $5/post)
MulCple Income Streams
25 years old and has now been thinned 3x for about $1500/acre of fence posts (using value of $5/post)
MulCple Income Streams
Doing the work you dont want to!
Badgersett Research Farm, Canton MN
Integration Acres, Athens OH
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!
Maple Syrup, Shiitake Mushrooms, Ducks, and Ginseng $7,000 grossed on 1 acre in 2014
www.wellspringforestfarm.com
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
Design AcJvity:
Stacked Agroforestry
for your ecotype
Wellspring Forest Farm Mecklenburg, NY
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
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