Nice article to see in the national media. It includes some great agroforestry links:

National Agroforestry Center: http://www.unl.edu/nac/

USDA Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, Alternative Crops and Plants, Agroforestry page:
http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=2&tax_level=2&tax_subject=298&topic_id=1428

One link is not well labeled:
While the idea of farming with trees is being reborn in the United States, it is not new.
-this links to the great website (with a Pacific Island emphasis) at: http://www.agroforestry.net/

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Agroforestry page:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/landuse/forestry

My favorite quote from the article is:
And around the world, agroforestry goes back centuries. “Many generations have been on the land,” said Jill M. Belsky, a professor of rural and environmental sociology at the University of Montana who has studied forest farms. “They have deep ecological knowledge and many cycles of these seasons. “For example, they taste the soil and say, ‘We need a few more chickens in here’ ” for fertilizer.

Thanks to Linda Robertson of the Redwood Chapter, California Rare Fruit Growers, for forwarding this.
JV

John Valenzuela, Chairperson
Golden Gate Chapter, California Rare Fruit Growers
http://www.crfg.org/
http://www.crfg.org/chapters/golden_gate/index.htm

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