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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? Urban soils are often nutrient-poor and depleted, but with proper soil management, they can become fertile ground for planting relatively quickly. What about forest gardens gets people excited?

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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.

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