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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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SESSION DESCRIPTION
What is
Sustinability
Agroforestry is a system that intentionally
combines growing trees and shrubs with other crops and/or livestock. A
well-managed agroforestry system may just be part of the solution to
sustainability. It improves soil and water quality, reaps economic
benefits for the producer, and yields a suite of environmental
benefits. Once established agroforestry projects may require less labor
compared to agricultural crops of equal economic value.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* Agroforestry design examples and
labor requirements.
* Agricultural sustainability through improved crop production
* Economic viability through supplemental income.
* Environmental benefits such as reduced water and wind erosion,
stopping agricultural drift, and improving wildlife habitat and
corridors.
* Challenges of agroforestry such as lag time between investment and
return.
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WHAT IS AGROFORESTRY
Richard
Straight, Lead Agroforester, USDA National Agroforestry Center
(Lincoln, NE)
The USDA National Agroforestry Center maintains the Agroforestry Field Site at Arbor Day Farm to demonstrate
some of the most effective conservation practices available. This
attractive, natural setting is home to terraces and buffer strips,
alley cropping demonstrations, the planting of switch grass and alfalfa
alternating with standard row crops, an infiltration basin, a living
snow fence, and woody crops like hazelnuts and chestnuts, small fruit
crops, Christmas trees, and small decorative and ornamental crops.
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AGROFORESTRY IN THE FIELD
Brad Riphagen, Field Coordinator,
Trees Forever (Marion, IA)
Trees Forever has funding through a NRCS
Conservation Innovation Grant to provide technical and cost share
assistance (75% up to $3,500) to ten producers annually to establish
agroforestry buffers for organic crops. They assist producers in
planning and planting practices. In exchange for the assistance,
producers allow the plantings to be showcased through a field education
day coordinated by Trees Forever staff.
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