[ACT] ACT Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Jared Liu]

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	April 17, 2008	 	
		
  	

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ABOUT US
  	Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans  
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national  
network of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with  
help from 450,000 volunteers.	

ABOUT WEBCASTS
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly webcast held at the lunch  
hour. The goal is to create informal trainings for local urban and  
community forestry organizations. The trainings leverage local  
successes by amplifying to a larger audience the model organizations'  
methods, materials, and approaches.

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HEADING TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY- PART I: AGROFORESTRY
April 17, 2008
1:00- 2:00pm EST

  	
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SESSION DESCRIPTION
What is Sustinability

Agroforestry is a system that intentionally combines growing trees and  
shrubs with other crops and/or livestock. A well-managed agroforestry  
system may just be part of the solution to sustainability. It improves  
soil and water quality, reaps economic benefits for the producer, and  
yields a suite of environmental benefits. Once established  
agroforestry projects may require less labor compared to agricultural  
crops of equal economic value.


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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* Agroforestry design examples and labor requirements.
* Agricultural sustainability through improved crop production
* Economic viability through supplemental income.
* Environmental benefits such as reduced water and wind erosion,  
stopping agricultural drift, and improving wildlife habitat and  
corridors.
* Challenges of agroforestry such as lag time between investment and  
return.

  	
  	
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WHAT IS AGROFORESTRY
Richard Straight, Lead Agroforester, USDA National Agroforestry Center  
(Lincoln, NE)

The USDA National Agroforestry Center maintains the Agroforestry Field  
Site at Arbor Day Farm to demonstrate some of the most effective  
conservation practices available. This attractive, natural setting is  
home to terraces and buffer strips, alley cropping demonstrations, the  
planting of switch grass and alfalfa alternating with standard row  
crops, an infiltration basin, a living snow fence, and woody crops  
like hazelnuts and chestnuts, small fruit crops, Christmas trees, and  
small decorative and ornamental crops.

  	



  	
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AGROFORESTRY IN THE FIELD
Brad Riphagen, Field Coordinator, Trees Forever (Marion, IA)

Trees Forever has funding through a NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant  
to provide technical and cost share assistance (75% up to $3,500) to  
ten producers annually to establish agroforestry buffers for organic  
crops. They assist producers in planning and planting practices. In  
exchange for the assistance, producers allow the plantings to be  
showcased through a field education day coordinated by Trees Forever  
staff.

  	




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http://actrees.org/site/stories/heading_towards_sustainability_
part_i_agrofor.php


  	
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