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BF 235: Silvopasture
General Course Resources
Instructor Contact
Webinar Schedule and Participant Guide
Weekly Webinar Link
Pre-Course Survey
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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
VIDEOS and FORUM: Watch and Discuss
READING: Silvopasture - An Agroforestry Practice
QUIZ: Silvopasture Essentials
RESOURCE and FORUM: Silvopasture Goals
OPTIONAL VIDEOS AND FORUM: Silvopasture in 1990s Missouri and 2020s California
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Overyielding in Temperate Silvopastures
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
VIDEOS and RESOURCES and FORUM: Design Guides in the UK
RESOURCE and FORUM: Tree Arrangements
Week 3: Planting Silvopastures into Open Fields/Food Safety Planning
WEBINAR: Week 3 Webinar Slides and Recording
VIDEOS AND FORUM: Tree Planting Strategies
RESOURCES: Tree Species Menus
RESOURCES AND FORUM: Food Safety
ASSIGNMENT and FORUM: Design a Simple Silvopasture Planting
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Silvopasture Case Studies
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Silvopasture in European Art in the 16th-19th Centuries
Week 4: Starting with the Woods: A Narrow Path to Success
WEBINAR: Week 4 Webinar Slides and Recording
RESOURCES: Photo Guide to Northeastern Silvopasture, and Considerations from Virginia
RESOURCES: Silvopasture vs. Unmanaged Woodland Grazing
RESOURCES AND FORUM: Understanding Forestry Topics
VIDEOS: Some Examples
VIDEOS and FORUM: Pigs in the Woods
RESOURCES: Silvopasturing in the Northeast
FORUM: Creating Silvopasture from Your Woods
OPTIONAL PODCAST AND WEBINAR: Forests to Silvopastures
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Silvopasture in the Northeast journal article
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Habitat Elements
Week 5: Tree Leaves as Animal Feed/Working With NRCS
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
RESOURCE: Nutritive Value of Fresh and Ensiled Tree Leaves
VIDEOS: Intensive Silvopasture Systems in South and Central America
VIDEO: Using Willow to Supplement Lamb Minerals
VIDEOS and LINKS: Tree Leaves for Zoo Animals
RESOURCE: Leucaena in Australia
FORUM: Reactions and Plans
NRCS Links
OPTIONAL VIDEOs: Grazing Consultant Sarah Flack; Professor Ashley Conway
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Review of Tree Fodder Systems
VIDEOS: Forage Testing
Week 6: The Big Picture: Money and Decision Making
WEBINAR: Week 6 Webinar Slides and Recording
READINGS: The Investment Case for Silvopasture and Silvopasture Economics
VIDEOS: More Silvopastures! Almond Orchard, Basque Pollards, Transylvanian Wood-Pasture
RESOURCES: Silvopasture Planning Guides
RESOURCES: Planning for Pollinators
RESOURCES: Stay Connected to Silvopasture
OPTIONAL RESOURCE: Climate Change Effects on Livestock in the Northeast
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RESOURCES: Plant Origins and Behavior
FORUM: Ideas, Connections, Inquiries
FORUM: Silvopasture Planning Template
FORUM: Silvopasture Planning Template
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