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AGROFORESTRY Enhancing Sustainability What is Agroforestry? The intentional integration of agriculture and forestry to create productive and sustainable farms and woodlands. Your Logo or Name Here Agroforestry Criteria The 4 Is

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AGROFORESTRY

Enhancing Sustainability

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What is Agroforestry?

The intentional integration of agriculture and forestry to create productive and sustainable farms and woodlands.

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Agroforestry Criteria

The 4 I’s

Intentional Designed, established and managed to work together and yield multiple products and benefits. Intensive Managed to maintain their productive and protective functions. Integrated Components are functionally and structurally combined into a management unit to meet objectives of the landowner. Horizontal or Vertical, Above- or Below-Ground, Simultaneous or Sequential. Interactive Providing numerous conservation and ecological benefits while yielding multiple products.

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Alley Cropping

Black Walnut with Hay

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Windbreaks

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Riparian Forest Buffers

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The intentional manipulation, integration, and intensive management

f woodlands that

capitalize on specific plant interactions to produce non-timber products.

Forest Farming

Goldenseal Ginseng Maple Sap Shitake Firewood

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Medicinal

Aromatic oils, bark, buds, leaves, roots, fruit & flowers and pollen

Edible

Fiddleheads, Ramps, Mushrooms, Nuts, Roots, Honey, Maple Syrup, Fruit and Leaves

Floral, Decorative & Craft

Leaves, Berries, Cones, Seeds, Capsules

Specialty Wood

Raw materials for hand crafted products and art

Forest Farming

Types of NTFPs

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Forest Farming Methods

Woods Cultivated/Grown aka Forest Gardening

(Most Intensive)

Wild-Simulated

(Plant a seed)

Managed Wild Population

(Work with existing populations)

✓ Woods Cultivated

higher costs
farming in the forest

✓ Wild simulated

mimics nature
lower cost
less inputs

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Silvopasture

Combining timber, livestock and forage production on the same acreage. Trees provide long-term returns, while livestock and forages generate an annual income.

Photo credit: J. Jourdain

✓ Intentional ✓ Designed Managing: Tree Layer Forage Layer Animal Layer

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Agroforestry Benefits

Alley Cropping Windbreaks IMPROVES

Water Quality
Wildlife Habitat
Crop Diversity
Utilization & Recycling
f soil nutrients
Increases net carbon

storage in the soil and vegetation

PROTECTS

✓ Stream Banks ✓ Aquatic Habitat

REDUCES

➢ Soil Erosion ➢ Off site movement of nutrients & chemicals Energy Needs

Riparian Buffers Forest Farming Silvopasture Food Forest Range of Operation Sizes

(<0.5 acre to >50 acres)

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Agroforestry

A Massachusetts Perspective

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Forest Land Ownership in Massachusetts

Private 64% State 20% Local 13%

Fed 3%

60% forest cover 11th most densely forested state

Oswalt, et al. (2019)

3.010 million acres of forest land 2.179 million NIPF acres 293,000 landowners

As reported to USFS

JAN. 2020

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MA Agricultural Census Data

2017 2017 7,214 Total Farms 491,653 Acres

MA Agricultural Census Data, 2017 Image from UMASS

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Most Farms are Small

Average Size of Farm 68 acres Farms Less Than 49 acres 68% of all farms

MA Agricultural Census Data, 2017 Image from UMASS

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Distribution of Woodland Pasture

in Massachusetts

Data taken from 2017 USDA Farm Census

Woodland Pasture

17,774 acres (9% of total woodland)

Farms Using Woodland Pasture

1,057 (14.6% of farms)

Farms practicing alley cropping

r silvopasture

299 (UP from 59 in 2012)

OPPORTUNITY?

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Is Massachusetts Ready for Agroforestry Expansion?

Peer-to Peer Learning

Identify landowners practicing

Professionals

Increase technical, educational, marketing assistance

Partnerships

Increase awareness and understanding

Programs

Support planning and establishment

f agroforestry practices

Photo credits: M. Downey

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Landowner Adoption

Photo credit: Hemlock Hill Farm Photo credits: M. Downey

Clean Water and Air
Safe and Healthy Food
Abundant Wildlife
Beautiful Places
Clean Renewable Energy
Sustainable Family Farms

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Additional Information

USDA National Agroforestry Center

https://www.fs.usda.gov/nac/

The Center for Agroforestry

http://www.centerforagroforestry.org/

Association for Temperate Agroforestry

http://www.aftaweb.org/

Cornell Small Farms Program

http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/agroforestry/

Agroforestry Net

http://www.agroforestry.org/

Silvopasture (online course)

https://www.silvopasture.org/

World Agroforestry Centre

http://www.worldagroforestry.org/

Silvopasture

http://silvopasture.ning.com/ Image from Queen Mary Psalter, British Library

“Harvesting Acorn to Feed Swine” 1310-1312 AD

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Acknowledgements

Photos not credited in this presentation are from USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC), Lincoln NE

National Agroforestry Center

Jeff Jourdain, MA Licensed Forester, Becket, MA Gray Dog’s Farm, Huntington, MA Walker Farms, New Braintree, MA Hemlock Hill Farm, Ashby, MA Richard Valcourt, Jr., MA Licensed Forester, Phillipston, MA Angus Glenn Farm, Watkins Glen, NY Twisted Tree Farm, Spencer, NY Wellspring Forest Farm, Trumansburg, NY

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Thank You

Michael Downey

413-212-3039 michael.downey@mass.gov

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/service-forestry Photo to credit it: : M Down wney