Remove Agriculture Remove Ecology Remove Forestry Remove Orchard
article thumbnail

How to Start Community Agroforestry Projects: Advice from 11 Forest Gardens

ATTRA

What are the skillsets, knowledge, experiences, and resources that the community could contribute to a forest garden or community orchard? Cities have many regulations when it comes to urban agriculture projects, but they also might have resources that they can contribute. What about forest gardens gets people excited? ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

Food 111
article thumbnail

Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In August 2022, Congress passed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation that provided nearly $20 billion dollars to the United States Department of Agriculture for various programs capable of reducing greenhouse gasses across our food and farm system, including CSP. E340C), and bundles start with a B (ex.

article thumbnail

Horrible Holly: A Festive Plant Runs Amok

Modern Farmer

22-caliber shells he’d purchased online from a forestry supply store in Colorado. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. In a frequently cited 2009 paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology , a trio of researchers identified more than 139 shade-tolerant plants that have invaded deeply shaded forests.

Ecology 119