With New Federal Funding, Has Agroforestry's Moment Arrived?
USDA’s new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding program will invest up to $2.8 billion in 70 projects, including $60 million to advance agroforestry.
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USDA’s new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding program will invest up to $2.8 billion in 70 projects, including $60 million to advance agroforestry.
Recent months have delivered a harvest of agroforestry funding news in the U.S., just as the season’s remaining crops ripened. The announcement of $60 million in support from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) in particular has stoked enthusiasm for this sustainable agriculture technique that also sequesters carbon and boosts biodiversity. “There is a windfall of […]
Mason County becomes largest chestnut planting site in U. S.
Combining trees with other crops or livestock intensifies production and can improve the environment. Supporters are working on best practices and regulatory challenges.
From her porch on Village Acres Farm in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, Angela Brubaker can see the curved rows of trees in the new riparian buffer along Lost Creek. The tree tubes and stakes that support the young saplings stand like little monuments within freshly mowed, lush grasses. While Brubaker and her siblings — they are equal […]