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BF 235: Silvopasture
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Week 1: Many Ways to Silvopasture
FIRST WEBINAR: Week 1 Webinar Slides and Recording
FORUM: Introduce Yourself + Meet Your Fellow Farmers
READING: Silvopasture - An Agroforestry Practice
VIDEOS and FORUM: Watch and Discuss
QUIZ: Silvopasture Essentials
OPTIONAL: Stratification of Agroforestry in Europe
Week 2: Characteristics that Make Silvopasture Work
WEBINAR: Week 2 Webinar Slides and Recording
VIDEOS and FORUM: Analyzing a Silvopasture System - Goals, Scale, Purpose
READING: Silvopasture Handbook
READING: Innovative Farmers Planting Guides
Week 3: Planting Silvopastures into Open Fields
WEBINAR: Week 3 Webinar Slides and Recording
VIDEO: Establishment Choices and Impacts
VIDEO: Challenges with Tree Protection
VIDEO: Tree Protection, Irrigation, and Spacing
ASSIGNMENT and FORUM: Design a Simple Silvopasture Planting
Week 4: Starting with the Woods: A Narrow Path to Success
WEBINAR: Week 4 Webinar Slides and Recording
VIDEO: Pigs in the Woods as a Forest Management Tool
VIDEO: Forest Thinning and Prescribed Burning
READING and RESOURCES: Get Trained Help with Strategic Forest Thinning
FORUM: How Much Thinning is Too Much?
QUIZ: Foundations of Silvopasture by Subtraction
Week 5: Tree Leaves as Animal Feed
WEBINAR: Week 5 Webinar Slides and Recording
VIDEO: Multi-Purpose Trees + False Indigo Established with NRCS Cost-Share Funds
VIDEO: Managing Poplars + Willows for Fodder
VIDEO: Tree Fodder Research by Ashley Conway from Univ of Missouri
FORUM: Fodder and Tree Hay Questions and Experiments
QUIZ: Trees as Feed
Week 6: The Big Picture: Money and Decision Making
WEBINAR: Week 6 Webinar Slides and Recording
READING: The Investment Case for Silvopasture
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FORUM: Introduce Yourself + Meet Your Fellow Farmers
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