Woodland and Field-Grown Herbs for Value-Added Culinary, Medicinal, and Body Care Products *Please note that this event location is on central time. Alysia Leon, archaeologist-turned-farmer, established Bird Fork Farm in 2020, to connect deeper with the land and share that connection with others. Bird Fork Farm is a “Certified Naturally Grown” small seed-to-bottle apothecary herb […]
Integrating Wildlife Biology with Forage-Based Grazing: Cattle and Sheep Silvopasture Will Bowling is both a farmer and a professional wildlife biologist – not two things you often see together – and the combination has yielded intriguing results at his family’s farm in southeastern KY. Will’s passion for managing plant communities has informed his forage-based livestock […]
Two Generations of Ecological Farming: Poultry and Sheep Silvopasture *Please note that this event location is on central time! Sequatchie Cove is a multi-generational farm, comprising around 100 acres of pasture and 250 acres of forest. Kelsey Keener and his family have been stewarding this land for over 30 years. They are well-known in the […]
Small Ruminant Land Management as a Path to Native Forest Restoration Kathryn and Neil Hughes own and operate a 10-acre forest farm in Madison County, VA (between Charlottesville and Culpeper), where they have been reforesting traditional farmland in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains since 2019. Kathryn teaches writing and studies disability rhetoric at […]