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Specialty mushrooms can be grown on a wide range of acreage allotments and are a sustainable and profitable way to recycle low-value forestry by-products. Researchers at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry are evaluating shiitakes, truffles, morels and other gourmet mushrooms for landowner production and profit. (Photo courtesy of UMCA.) |
The 11th North American Agroforestry Conference of the Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) will be held May 31 – June 3, 2009 at the Stoney Creek Inn and Conference Center located in Columbia, Missouri. The conference will be hosted by the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA). Please visit the UMCA website www.centerforagroforestry.org for more information about the conference and field tours, and to find the guidelines for submitting abstracts for your oral and poster presentations at the conference.
The 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry will be held during August 23 - 28, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. It will be organized by ICRAF (World Agroforestry Centre) at the conference facilities of UNEP (UN Environment Programme). Please see the Congress website: http://worldagroforestry.org/wca2009/ for details.
Davenport Living Snowfence Demonstration - 2003 planting with black mulch. (Photo courtesy of Lincoln County Conservation District.) |
The September issue of the Temperate Agroforester is now available for online viewing. Welcome to another issue of the Temperate Agroforester. This month's edition discusses a living snow fence demonstration project in places that people sometimes say "trees won't grow." Enjoy---the editor.
Toward Agroforestry Design: An Ecological Approach Edited by Shibu Jose and Andrew Gordon Springer, Advances in Agroforestry Series, Volume 4 2008, 314 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6571-2, Hardcover |
The Agroforester’s Bookshop is pleased to announce the addition of two new books. Toward Agroforestry Design is an important reference for anyone interested in exploring or managing the physiological and ecological processes which underlie resource allocation and plant growth in agroforestry systems. Ecological Basis of Agroforestry covers the practice of agroforestry in temperate and tropical regions and is applicable worldwide.
Remember that AFTA members may order, at discount, any book from the publisher catalogs linked on the Agroforester's Bookshop website. Contact sales [at] aftaweb.org with the publisher, title and ISBN.
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