Slide 1:Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast


Slide 2: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


Slide 4:Forest Farming @ Cornell Research Extension Teaching


Slide 5:American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolium)


Slide 6:Forest Mushroom Cultivation


Slide 7: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


Slide 10: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


Slide 11: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


Slide 12: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


Slide 13:Oyster Strain Comparison on Totem-Inoculated Aspen, Spring 2007


Slide 14:Stropharia red oak red maple cherry


Slide 15:Evaluation of Local Strains of Lion’s Mane (Hericium sp.)


Slide 16:Extension


Slide 17:Camp Mushroom, 2006


Slide 18:Mushrooms.cals.cornell.edu/index.htm


Slide 19:Camp Mushroom, Arnot Forest, Spring, 2007


Slide 20:Teaching Hort/Ntres/CSS 426, Practicum in Forest Farming


Slide 21:Forest Farming at the MacDaniels Nut Grove


Slide 22: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.”


Slide 24:“Productive Conservation” that combines production with protection. (Gold)


Slide 25:Cultivar ‘Cornell’ Wild type Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)


Slide 26:Medicinal Herbs Ginseng Goldenseal Bloodroot


Slide 27:Mushrooms


Slide 28:Fruits


Slide 30:Visit Us at MacDaniels Nut Grove


Slide 36:Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast


Slide 37:Forest Farming as an Agroforestry System for the Northeast


Slide 39:American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolium) Storage Root Apical bud Rhizome


Slide 41:List crops at MNG Ginseng Mushrooms Nuts Fruits