Agroforestry
Learning Communities
in the Northeast
2nd Generation Activities

The Agroforestry and Forest Management Workshop held at Cornell University's Arnot Forest in April, 2001 shaped the second generation of the forest farming learning community. The 32 participants came from seven states in the Northeast, the majority from New York and Pennsylvania. Successful applicants demonstrated commitments from small farm and private forest owners to establish and monitor forest farming learning trails on their properties. While the focus of the initial learning communities workshop was on understory crops, the main emphasis of the Arnot Forest workshop was on crop tree management and sugar bush enhancement. These activities include creating the conditions for effective understory cropping, or intercropping, where there is ecological potential and economic incentive to do so.

Eight of the Arnot workshop participants were members of the learning community's first generation, and established understory trials with landowners in Fall 2000. The tree crop management training should position this cohort to play leading roles within the "community" in fostering understanding of methods and challenges in forest farming.

Who are the members? See descriptions of their programs on the 2nd Generation Member Page.

1st Generation Activities  
Ginseng Visual Site Assessment Criteria

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