OSWEGO COUNTY – Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Oswego County will host a free on-line workshop by Zoom from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10. This workshop will discover among the alternative ways the small farms neighborhood can develop larger resilience by adopting agroforestry practices. Agroforestry describes a variety of land-use practices that mix farming (of crops, animals, fungi) with timber, shrubs and forest ecosystems. Agroforestry may help present new alternatives to extend farm revenue whereas additionally receiving different environmental and social advantages.
This workshop will give a broad overview of agroforestry with particular consideration specializing in forest farming and silvopasture. Forest farming is the cultivation of high-value, non-timber forest merchandise below the safety of a forest cover. Forest farming doesn’t considerably intrude or modify forest ecosystems, however basically permits agricultural producers to farm within the woods. A few of the forest merchandise that shall be highlighted embrace: maple and walnut syrup, raspberries, blackberries, pawpaw, shitake and lions mane mushrooms, nuts timber (walnut, hickory, pecan, hazelnut) and medicinal crops like American ginseng, cohosh and goldenseal.
Silvopasture is the combination of livestock, timber, and forages into present woodlots or by bringing timber into pasture settings. Grazing livestock below tree cowl not solely reduces animal warmth stress through the summer time months, it additionally permits livestock producers to develop wooden or different agricultural merchandise as an extra supply of revenue. Primarily, agroforestry practices like forest farming and silvopasture attempt to stack a number of enterprises on the identical piece of land. Not solely can this enhance and diversify farm income, it might probably additionally result in larger farm resilience.
This on-line workshop is open to all members of most people, together with these focused on studying about agriculture, new/starting farmers or longstanding agricultural producers seeking to make a change or add one thing new to their farm. Visitor audio system shall be Professor Emeritus Dr. Kenneth Mudge, from the College of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell College, and Brett Chedozy, Senior Useful resource Educator in Agriculture and Pure Sources at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County. To register go to: reg.cce.cornell.edu/agroforestryworkshop_235
For extra data contact Joshua Vrooman, Agricultural Neighborhood Educator for CCE of Oswego County at jwv33@cornell.edu or 315-963-7286 ext. 200.
Contact the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oswego County workplace if folks have any particular wants. For extra data name 315-963-7286 or go browsing to www.thatscooperativeextension.org.
