United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Agroforestry Center
Working Trees (USDA-NAC)
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Date of this Version
1-2012
Citation
Working Trees Info, January 2012
United States Department of Agriculture, National Agroforestry Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
Abstract
What is forest farming?
Forest farming, or multi-story cropping, is a distinctive approach to land management that combines management practices of conventional forestry with those of small-scale farming or gardening to attain an environmentally and economically sustainable land-use system.
Typically, a forest farming system is established by thinning an existing woodland or plantation to leave the best canopy trees for continued timber production and to create the appropriate conditions that favor the understory crop.
Comments
United States government work