Agroforestry Overview

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Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast

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Intentional manipulation of forest lands to produce a regular supply of food, medicinal, ornamental and other non-timber forest products. - Hill & Buck Forest Farming Maple Medicinals Mushrooms Nuts Fruits … an intensive, multi-story cropping system for cultivating high-value timber and non-timber forest products - Gallagher Ornamentals

Benefits of forest farming : 

Benefits of forest farming Management Profit Conservation

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Forest Farming @ Cornell Research Extension Teaching

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American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolium)

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Forest Mushroom Cultivation

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Research Objectives Substrate tree species Moisture conservation Fungal species / isolate selection

Experimental Design, 2006 : 

Experimental Design, 2006 3 Fungi x 4 tree species x 2 moisture management -Shiitake -Oyster -Lion’s Mane -Red Oak -Aspen -Beech -Red Maple -Wax -No Wax

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Effect of Tree Species & Waxing on Shiitake Log Moisture Content Spring 2006 - Fall, 2007 from Jourmal LMC: ShiitakeSpring.JMP Least Squared Means Log Moisture Content

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Effect of Tree Species & Waxing on Log Moisture Content Spring 2006 - Fall, 2007 from Jourmal LMC: ShiitakeSpring.JMP Least Squared Means Mushroom Fresh Weight Log Moisture Content

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Effect of Tree Species & Waxing on Shiitake Log Moisture Content Spring 2006 - Fall, 2007 from Jourmal LMC: ShiitakeSpring.JMP Least Squared Means Mushroom Fresh Weight Log Moisture Content Take Home: Beech, Low moisture / High yield Aspen, High moisture / Low yield

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Oyster Strain Comparison on Totem-Inoculated Aspen, Spring 2007

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Stropharia red oak red maple cherry

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Evaluation of Local Strains of Lion’s Mane (Hericium sp.)

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Extension

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Camp Mushroom, 2006

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Mushrooms.cals.cornell.edu/index.htm

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Camp Mushroom, Arnot Forest, Spring, 2007

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Teaching Hort/Ntres/CSS 426, Practicum in Forest Farming

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Forest Farming at the MacDaniels Nut Grove

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Lawrence MacDaniels,1888-1986 Dept. of Pomology, 1919-1940 Dept. of Floriculture, 1940 – 1956 President NNGA, 1951 Last Publication: 1984 “… appropriate nut trees would contribute substantially to future food supply, erosion control, wildlife refuge, and in the case of black walnut, to a valuable timber resource. …Whenever a shade tree is planted it might as well be a nut tree of one of the better varieties.”

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“Productive Conservation” that combines production with protection. (Gold)

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Cultivar ‘Cornell’ Wild type Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)

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Medicinal Herbs Ginseng Goldenseal Bloodroot

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Mushrooms

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Fruits

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Visit Us at MacDaniels Nut Grove

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Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast

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Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast

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American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolium) Storage Root Apical bud Rhizome

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List crops at MNG Ginseng Mushrooms Nuts Fruits