**Learn how forest farming is helping to protect and revitalize threatened plant and human communities!** [ Ссылка ]
Appalachia is home to scores of medicinal, edible, and decorative woodland plants and fungi long harvested in the wild for commercial and personal uses. Forest farming is the intentional cultivation of marketable non-timber woodland products, and farms and stakeholder networks are on the rise. Key benefits of forest farming include long-term product sustainability and quality, but also the well-being of forest-dependent Appalachian communities which are located in many of the nation’s most economically distressed counties.
Here, Mountain Rose Herbs sits down with Dr. John Munsell, Appalachian sustainable agroforestry activist and Associate Professor of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech University, to discuss how visionary herbal products companies are leading a supply chain revolution that supports Appalachian forest farmers with equitable prices and market share based on product chain-of-custody. Other stakeholders, such as non-timber woodland product industry leaders, plant conservation organizations like United Plant Savers, and legislators elected to the highest offices in the country, are vocal advocates and have committed to growth in this land use sector. Most recently, the future of forest farming was embodied in the form of a grant from the USDA Forest Service to build on foundational efforts in Appalachia and form the American Forest Farming Council.
SUPPORT FOREST FARMING WITH FOREST GROWN VERIFIED BOTANICALS: [ Ссылка ]
