On a recent sunny afternoon, a handful of workers at Plum Forest Farm prepped items for sale: They washed leeks,... Read ...

It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

May 4—CEDAR — Patti Travioli has operated Heartwood Forest Farm in Leelanau County for about 10 years. Travioli received a horticulture degree from Michigan State University and ran an organic farm in ...

Ramping up the forest natives: The WNC Forest Products initiative includes such projects as revitalizing traditional Cherokee forest foods, like ramps and sochan. photo by Caroline Edwards In Western ...

INTO THE WOODS: Volunteers are developing a new demonstration forest farm at the Madison County Public Library to increase awareness and knowledge of forest farming techniques. Photo courtesy of ...

One tree at a time, draft horses named “Bliss” and “Roy” haul ash logs to the ridge for sawing at Banks Mountain Forest Farm, up in the higher elevations of Edneyville. The process is part of a ...

Trees' role in agriculture tend to be viewed as limited to the lumber industry or highly organized orchards to grow fruits, but some farmers are looking to the forest floor to get more people into ...

Although Michelle Pridgen knew black cohosh was growing on the forested acreage of her Windy Hill Farm in western Virginia, she never considered adding it to the list of crops she harvests—until a ...

Kate Paul bloomed where she was planted. She grew up in Forbes, just a mile down the road from where she and husband Ron now plant flower fields. “This land has been in my family for over 130 years,” ...

Advocates say growing niche market food, herbs and botanicals lowers the entry cost to farming and can also make smaller farms more profitable. Many think of a tree's role in agriculture as limited to ...

Due to market pressures, ecosystem loss, and a growing consumer base, there is a push to inspire forest farming and herb growing. Documenting and sharing the Appalachian ethnobotanists' oral ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. In dozens of archaeological ...