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Are you currently farming the woods, or know someone who is?

As part of our research while writing our book Farming the Woods, we have developed a survey so we can collect information about forest farmers in the temperate climate. Our is to collect and tell the stories of forest famers our our website and in our book, all while building a network and supporting conversations so we can all better practice this agroforestry strategy.

The survey can be found at: http://FarmingTheWoods.com/the-survey.

 
The following is an example of the case studies we want to document. Ken visited several forest farming sites during his 2012 sabbatical. It inspired us to visit and research more, but we need your help to do so. Visit http://igg.me/at/farmingthewoods and make a donation to support our work!


CASE STUDY: Salamander Springs Gardens, Marshall, NC

Rodney and Heather have homesteaded their 75 acre farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina for twenty years. We meet Rodney at the bottom of a steep, rocky driveway that our 2WD car is not at all suited to climb. Rodney is about six foot six, and has a full bushy beard on its way from brown to gray. He was born in Fairbanks, AK.

The son of an Army Airborne Ranger turned Chaplain, he moved regularly in life until finally settling in the mountains of Western North Carolina in 1992. “Narrowly avoiding a college degree”, he turned to environmental activism, bioregionalism and permaculture which has gradually led him to become a gentleman farmer. Their lifestyle is low impact while supplying as much of their own food as possible. Their expressed goal is to “restore and maintain rare forest components with an emphasis on maximizing biodiversity”.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE: http://farmingthewoods.com/2013/03/21/salamander-springs-gardens/

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