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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? Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, National Agroforestry Center, under the authority of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978. What about forest gardens gets people excited?

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

CSP pays producers to improve, maintain, and actively manage conservation activities already in place at the time of application and to adopt new conservation activities during the life of the five-year contract. E340C), and bundles start with a B (ex. B000CPL24).

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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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