The agroforestry and forest management learning community initiative aims to help sustain small farms and private woodland productivity. We seek to achieve these goals by improving the capacity of natural resource educators and landowners to develop woodland management practices that are adequately diverse, integrated, profitable, healthy and sustainable. Our learning community approach involves farmers, forest owners, educators and scientists in designing and assessing the performance of promising practices. It also uses common data recording methods to monitor key performance indicators under diverse conditions.
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We
are facilitating learning about forest farming practices through:
- interaction
in training workshops among natural resources educators and scientists
- establishing
and monitoring trial practices
- discussing
issues and ideas that arise from farm and forest based trials through
a listserv
- site visits by training and facilitation team members to stimulate the evaluation and extension of learning community activity
- a website that provides access to information about the activities and members of the community.
Our activities are supported by the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program for the Northeast.
