Forest Farming with Botanicals

Location
Smokey House Center, 426 Danby Mountain Rd., Danby, VT 05739
Cost
Free
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Contact Name
Medina Korajkić
Phone
(802) 419-0083
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*This workshop is at full capacity and registration has closed. If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected]

Utilizing forests and woodlots to grow non-timber products can diversify your enterprise and build ecological resilience. Join us at the Smokey House Center to explore the nuances of successfully establishing production-scale forest botanical polycultures. This workshop will cover the role forest farming can play within forest management plans, how to identify and evaluate sites for forest farming potential, and approaches for establishing perennial polycultures to meet existing markets. Together, participants will identify, prepare, and plant a ¼ acre site with botanicals, including ginseng and ramps. 

These workshops are a collaboration among the University of Vermont, Smokey House Center, NOFA-VT, VT Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, Northeast Forest Farmers Coalition, and USDA Northeast Climate Hub.

This workshop earns one RAP Agricultural Water Quality education credit.

This workshop is free, thanks to generous support from the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). 
 
This work is supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2024-70027-42540.

 

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UVM Extension helps individuals and communities put research-based knowledge to work. University of Vermont Extension, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating, offers education and employment to everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or familial status.
 

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