Non-Traditional Forestry / Agroforestry
Non-timber Forest Products and Agroforestry
The Catalpa Tree and Its Worms
A catalpa tree is both a beautiful tree, a wood product and a source of food for the fish-loving catalpa worm.
A catalpa tree is both a beautiful tree, a wood product and a source of food for the fish-loving catalpa worm.
Harvesting a Black Walnut Crop
Collecting a Black Walnut Crop for Seeds and Nuts
Collecting a Black Walnut Crop for Seeds and Nuts
Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products
The best on-line book I've found detailing various self-help suggestions for making money from non-timber forest products (pdf format).
The best on-line book I've found detailing various self-help suggestions for making money from non-timber forest products (pdf format).
Quail Hunt | Hunting Quail as a Forest Product | Non-forest Timber Use
Quail hunting is an alternative financial opportunity to timber management for forest landowners.
Quail hunting is an alternative financial opportunity to timber management for forest landowners.
Finding American Ginseng for Fun and Profit
American ginseng is a valuable non-timber forest product that is collected and sold on the open market and mainly used for its healing and curative properties. This tutorial gives tips and instruction on how to identify, harvest and market Panax quinquefolius.
American ginseng is a valuable non-timber forest product that is collected and sold on the open market and mainly used for its healing and curative properties. This tutorial gives tips and instruction on how to identify, harvest and market Panax quinquefolius.
About Non-timber Forest Product Income Opportunities
There are more ways to make money from your forest than cutting timber from your About.com Guide.
There are more ways to make money from your forest than cutting timber from your About.com Guide.
About Shiitake Mushrooms
Wonderful Shiitake - Aphrodisiac, Immune Enhancer, Food: This feature deals with a fungi called Lentinus edodes, or Shiitake mushroom. It is a major item of produce in Asia and is associated with health benefits and cuisine. Learn about the mushroom and how to cultivate it.
Wonderful Shiitake - Aphrodisiac, Immune Enhancer, Food: This feature deals with a fungi called Lentinus edodes, or Shiitake mushroom. It is a major item of produce in Asia and is associated with health benefits and cuisine. Learn about the mushroom and how to cultivate it.
About Making Charcoal - A Small Business Opportunity
You can make charcoal a business. Read this and find out if you really want to from your About.com Guide.
You can make charcoal a business. Read this and find out if you really want to from your About.com Guide.
About the Pine Needle Harvest
Frequently asked questions on harvesting pine straw...
Frequently asked questions on harvesting pine straw...
About Pine Straw - The Money Making Mulch
An interview with a pine straw expert from your About.com Guide.
An interview with a pine straw expert from your About.com Guide.
About American Ginseng - A Brief Blog
Ginseng could be your next money-maker. Check out this short photo essay on Panax quinquefolium.
Ginseng could be your next money-maker. Check out this short photo essay on Panax quinquefolium.
Agroforestry Glossary
An agroforestry glossary of terms from Bugwood...
An agroforestry glossary of terms from Bugwood...
Agroforestry - What is it?
"Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems." So what does this mean? Check it here.
"Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems." So what does this mean? Check it here.
Association for Temperate Agroforestry
An organization created to promote the wider adoption of agroforestry by landowners in temperate North America...
An organization created to promote the wider adoption of agroforestry by landowners in temperate North America...
Forest Farming Trees
Taken from a pub called Farming: Towards a Solution to Problems of World Hunger and Conservation, this site provides a listing of trees used in production of oils, nuts, fodder, fruit, and legumes. It also provides links to sites explaining these trees.
Taken from a pub called Farming: Towards a Solution to Problems of World Hunger and Conservation, this site provides a listing of trees used in production of oils, nuts, fodder, fruit, and legumes. It also provides links to sites explaining these trees.
Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products
The best on-line book I've found detailing various self-help suggestions for making money from non-timber forest products.
The best on-line book I've found detailing various self-help suggestions for making money from non-timber forest products.
Lichens of North America
A complete site on Lichens. Check out "Lichens and People"....
A complete site on Lichens. Check out "Lichens and People"....
Maple Sugaring Research
Cornell University site with production, processing and research information...
Cornell University site with production, processing and research information...
Massachusetts Maple Producers Association
A very informative site on the production of maple syrup.
A very informative site on the production of maple syrup.
National Agroforesty Center
USDA's site that explains agroforestry that includes alley cropping, silvopasture, and forest farming. A good gateway site and beginning point for agroforestry study.
USDA's site that explains agroforestry that includes alley cropping, silvopasture, and forest farming. A good gateway site and beginning point for agroforestry study.
Non-timber Forest Product Home Page
An international non-timber forest product site.
An international non-timber forest product site.
Special Forest Product Web Site
Virginia Tech and others are "collaborating to develop and operate the first web site devoted to gathering information on products and markets." Check this site for the latest in special forest product.
Virginia Tech and others are "collaborating to develop and operate the first web site devoted to gathering information on products and markets." Check this site for the latest in special forest product.
Texarome Home Page
Texarome is a premiere Texas distiller of botanical aromatics. Great music is provided while the site loads (slowwww). I still think it is a worthy site and gives great info on the distillation of aromatics to include sandlewood and cedar.
Texarome is a premiere Texas distiller of botanical aromatics. Great music is provided while the site loads (slowwww). I still think it is a worthy site and gives great info on the distillation of aromatics to include sandlewood and cedar.
Tom Volk's Morel Page
"The morel, one of the most prized and most delicious mushrooms, has finally been cultivated. The morel is perhaps the best known of the edible fungi, since it is easily identified even by those who have but a slight knowledge of mycology,". Very good fungi site with great pictures.
"The morel, one of the most prized and most delicious mushrooms, has finally been cultivated. The morel is perhaps the best known of the edible fungi, since it is easily identified even by those who have but a slight knowledge of mycology,". Very good fungi site with great pictures.