It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

Due to market pressures, ecosystem loss, and a growing consumer base, there is a push to inspire forest farming and herb growing. Documenting and sharing the Appalachian ethnobotanists' oral ...

Trees' role in agriculture tend to be viewed as limited to the lumber industry or highly organized orchards to grow fruits, but some farmers are looking to the forest floor to get more people into ...

The agroforestry practice of forest farming may be a solution to conservation challenges surrounding the wild exploitation of ramps, often called wild leeks, but it requires proper site selection to ...

Kate Paul bloomed where she was planted. She grew up in Forbes, just a mile down the road from where she and husband Ron now plant flower fields. “This land has been in my family for over 130 years,” ...

Forested land isn't usually good for farming unless it's clear-cut and plowed. Mini farms under the tree tops can grow crops like ginseng and mushrooms. It may be viable way to be a small time farmer.

Advocates say growing niche market food, herbs and botanicals lowers the entry cost to farming and can also make smaller farms more profitable. Many think of a tree's role in agriculture as limited to ...

Surrounded by tall, spindly trees in Central Kenya’s Uplands Forest, Margret Njoki and her daughter dig up a row of potatoes, their hands moving rhythmically in time with one another. Along with the ...

BRAINERD — The sap flow this season was at a crawl thanks to a late and unusual spring at Brainerd’s Clayhill Farm and Forest. In partnership with Northland Arboretum, Judy and Harry Worm, owners of ...

“Our program has grown so much over our first year.” Forest & Farm is a nature-based children’s program located right here in Cadillac. “Here we teach children how to grow their own food, and create ...