tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81234597653995271892024-03-13T10:13:50.981-07:00Wellspring Forest Farm & School BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-50249513561550185262018-04-22T05:04:00.002-07:002018-04-22T05:04:37.181-07:00<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">News from the Woods</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><i>a monthly digest of resources, events, and people in forestry & agroforestry from Wellspring Forest Farm<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/c?c%3D2270861%26l%3D9dd26add-185e-4d17-920e-6589304caaf7%26r%3Db06f51f0-18b1-4490-bcc9-422ccba8b504&source=gmail&ust=1524484989837000&usg=AFQjCNHsi5BdpT2gCjsPWOzEfMy3Awr5XQ" href="http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/c?c=2270861&l=9dd26add-185e-4d17-920e-6589304caaf7&r=b06f51f0-18b1-4490-bcc9-422ccba8b504" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.WellspringForestFarm.com</a></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spring 2018</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Greetings:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are eager for Spring as I am sure many of you are, yet this slow transition is a good thing for many of the trees and wildlife in the woods. We’ve been working to cultivate patience and enjoy the downtown before what is sure to be another abundant season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We’ve been sharing lots of photos from the farm and are now doing a weekly video update from the farm on our Instagram page; check it out and follow to keep up with our activities!<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.instagram.com/wellspringforestfarmschool/&source=gmail&ust=1524484989837000&usg=AFQjCNF4gFGt-qrSiyZuOiJS_AlVEzmnTQ" href="https://www.instagram.com/wellspringforestfarmschool/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>instagram.com/wellspringforest<wbr></wbr>farmschool/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> This e-news update, we share more about upcoming events with Steve in several locations around the Northeast, celebrate and give thanks for support of our SILVOPASTURE book Kickstarter campaign, and link to our free foraging articles to get you ready to search for the hidden treasures of the forest</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy and Happy Spring!<br />Steve & Elizabeth</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Upcoming Events in NY and VT</span></b></div>
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<i>Enjoy a weekend retreat with lodging, great food, and activities at a beautiful center nestled in the hills of the Hudson Valley….</i></div>
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May 11 – 13 at the OMEGA Center for Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck NY</div>
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The workshop includes several guided walks in the forest, tree ID, and inoculated mushroom logs, medicines, and plants to take home!</div>
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<i>Join us at Sterling College in Vermont for an in depth look at mushroom cultivation, tree syrups, and silvopasture systems for the farm and homestead…</i></div>
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<b>PROFITABLE AGROFORESTRY FOR HOMESTEADS & FARMS</b></div>
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June 4 - 6 at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, VT</div>
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This workshop includes the basic production needs, economics, and forest management skills for agroforestry systems with the best potential in the Northeast.</div>
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<b>GROWING A WOODLAND FARM & HOMESTEAD</b></div>
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June 22 - 24 at Wellspring Forest Farm & Edible Acres, Ithaca NY</div>
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Join Steve Gabriel and Sean Dembrosky for in-depth tours and hands-on practice and gain a ton of experience and ideas for your own productive land projects.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">THANK YOU!</span></b></div>
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Our recent Kickstater campaign was an overwhelming success thanks to the generous support of our backers who pledged $10,600 to help us support contributors to the book, publish an easy-to-access resource library, and develop an online course for practitioners. Our deepest thanks to those who pledged support!</div>
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During the project, we<span> </span><b>offered a series of FREE webinars</b><span> </span>about several aspects of Silvopasture, the combination of trees, livestock, and forages that offers one of the most promising solutions to climate change. The recordings of these presentations are available at<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://silvopasturebook.com/&source=gmail&ust=1524484989837000&usg=AFQjCNFuhViGINZRkfFEnzqApcPohXinHg" href="http://silvopasturebook.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://silvopasturebook.<wbr></wbr>com/</a><span> </span>under “Video and Audio”</div>
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The book will be out June 21 -- Copies can be pre-ordered though our farm website:</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Free Articles Prep You for the Foraging Season</span></b></div>
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Check out the “Media” page on our farm website for a number of free articles that have relevance as we head into the season of life in the forest. More articles and video can be found on this page:<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com/&source=gmail&ust=1524484989837000&usg=AFQjCNFMKcp9FauJLHCg5FOO1jKoGf-tDA" href="http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://media.wellspringf<wbr></wbr>orestfarm.com</a></div>
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<b><span>Quote of the Month:</span></b><span><br />------------------------------<wbr></wbr>---------<br /></span><i><span>Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.<br /><br /><br />A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.</span></i><span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">News from the
Woods</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a monthly digest of resources, events,
and people in forestry & agroforestry</i></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Winter 2018</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Greetings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Welcoming to
Maple Season! Each year, we renew our commitment to stewarding the forest-based
ecosystems and farming practices that we see as so critical to a healthy
planet. The sap from the trees (and the forthcoming syrup) reminds us of the
gifts of the forest that we call home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We have lots of
exciting things to announce in this issue, including our 2018 list of classes
and workshops, the release of our second book in June, and a new free article
for download about the wonders of the Black Locust tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Among all the
class offerings, we are excited to offer our first ONLINE COURSE accessible
anywhere in the world. The class is called “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundations of Forest Stewardship” and
runs from April 2 through May 7 with weekly live webinars. Read on for more
information. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We also continue
to develop our understanding of the cultural narrative and the elements of
social justice that are an essential part of this work. To this end, we’ve
adopted new policies to support participation in our programs. Please see
http:/policy.wellspringforestfarm.com for more. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">As the trees
start to thaw and the sap begins to flow, we begin another cycle and wish for
each of you a healthy and abundant growing season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">For the trees,<br />
Steve & Elizabeth</span><br />
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farm and sugarshack, taste sap and syrup. On Sunday we will do a hands-on
mushroom inoculation workshop. Visit our Facebook event page for updated
vendors and activities: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/143534439650034/">https://www.facebook.com/events/143534439650034/</a></span></div>
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ecology of woodlands and exposes participants to the wide range of
opportunities to engage in both responsible management and productive use
including mushroom cultivation, tapping trees for saps, and raising livestock
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<span style="font-family: "times";">We learn to observe the
forest and find natural patterns to replicate in our own farms, gardens, or
yards. Walk the woods to explore trees, plants, and mushrooms and learn proper
planting techniques, how to inoculate logs that can easily grow shitake
mushrooms at home, and how to make medicinal tinctures. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Access to above online course FREE with registration.</i> </span></div>
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skills to sustainably care for your woodlot and focus on log-grown mushrooms,
tree saps and syrups, and silvopasture (grazing animals in the forest) as three
of the best options for both the homestead and farm scale. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Access to above online course FREE with registration.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Explore growing edible
mushrooms, perennial vegetables, berries, and nuts in temperate woodlands on
both a homestead and farm scale. This course is facilitated by Steve Gabriel of
Wellspring Forest Farm, along with Sean Dembrosky of Edible Acres Nursery. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Access to above online course FREE with
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silvopasture farms including Wellspring Forest Farm (sheep) and Angus Glen Farm
(cows) and teach both the planning and practice of silvopasture. We will focus
primarily on systems for ruminants but touch on options and considerations for
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Our newest book,
titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Silvopasture: A Guide to
Managing Pasture Animals, Forage Crops, and Trees in a Temperate Farm Ecosystem</b>”
is scheduled for release this coming June. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is good evidence that Silvopasture systems are among the best in addressing a
rapidly changing climate. The recent New York Times Best Seller book <a href="http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food/silvopasture">DRAWDOWN rated
Silvopasture #9 among ALL solutions to climate change</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We have launched
a KICKSTARTER campaign to help provide stipends to writers, researchers, and
farmers who contributed to the book. The funds also help us continue the work
and develop much needed tools and resources for those interested in
implementing Silvopasture on landscapes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">SUPPORT the
campaign and get great perks like signed copies of the book, access to our
workshops, and more! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We have a new
article for download at the farm website. We write about one of the best
multi-use trees in agroforestry: Black Locust. Learn about its history, use,
and methods for best care and propagation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">You can download
the article at <a href="http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com/">http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com</a></span><br />
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enjoy, so check out the whole collection! One relevant to the coming season is
“</span><span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Tapping Maple for Sap”. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></h2>
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">News from the Woods”</b> is brought to
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<i>leaving forests in our footsteps</i></span><br />
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Mecklenburg, NY<br />
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selection of our shiitake harvest into a flavorful spice that works well in
soups, sauces, pasta, and on pizza. This one is quickly becoming a customer
favorite! ($5 for 4oz)</span></div>
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beautiful selection of colorful hides that are great for babies or decorative
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deeply explore our land and the relationship we have to it’s past, present, and
future. One aspect we’ve been digging in deep on is learning more about the
indigenous people and stories that are embedded in the history of our land and
the wider region. We farm on Cayuga Nation land, one of the nations in the
Haudenosaunee or Iroquois’ confederacy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Some of our relation to this work comes from our
relationship to Mike DeMunn, who is our forest mentor and part
Senca-Haudenosaunee. His perspective on forestry is literally the foundation of
our school.</span></div>
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so many tales are about the exploitation of so many people and places we all
live on today. Yet coupled with the tragedy of history are incredible stories
of many incredible indigenous people and communities. They are still here, and
this fact is a testament to resilience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">While it may not be clear to so how this topic
links to forest and land stewardship, allow me to explain the connections we
see. When we look at the landscape we have today, so much can be traced back to
the perspective and attitude of colonist settlers, who saw it as their right to
extract as much value from land for their own personal gains. </span></div>
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these lands until settlers came. Native people, of many tribes and communities,
had very different concepts of property and ownership, which the outsiders
viewed only through their own cultural constructs. One example – forests were
feared, and seen as “wastelands” – in many cases in order to claim land rights,
settlers had to “improve” the land, which meant clearing it of all its forests.
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viewed native communities as “sinful” and out of line with their concepts of
god and nation. They systematically and unapologetically destroyed communities
during the time the United States was being developed as a country. This is the
legacy of the birth of this country. </span></div>
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how the past narratives of forest use, farming, and culture intersect. The
settler-colonizer attitude still infects the way we see and view the world, and
it’s critical for us, that we examine this, if we are to be good stewards of
the land. </span></div>
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gather and share food with family, to give thanks for all we have, to celebrate
the harvest. But we need to recognize that the narrative of this holiday is not
one based in the fairytale version of a peaceful meal between pilgrims and
Native Americans. It is based on a history where many settler communities
celebrated the conquest of native people with thanksgiving feasts.</span></div>
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native voices on this topic, to learn more. Here are two recent podcasts that
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specific people who traditionally lived on the land you are on now. See this
great map to learn more: </span></div>
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these words, and we welcome dialog and conversation. We can begin with building
our awareness, and then determine when and how to take action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can learn a new solar economy from plants, medicines from
mycelia, and architecture from the ants. By learning from other species, we
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Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-89414694116811274162017-10-03T09:25:00.000-07:002017-10-07T05:26:10.663-07:00Pastured Lamb for Sale by Half, Whole, or "Grab Bag"<style>
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Katahdin sheep produce flavorful and tender meat, and live an idyllic life,
grazing always on pasture and in woodland glens. </span></div>
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with care while building soil, sequestering carbon, and promoting native
vegetation. Learn more about our farm at www.WellspringForestFarm.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We sell
lamb by the half and whole, as custom cuts that you choose to your liking. If
you haven’t purchased meat this way before, it’s a wonderful way to experience
the wide range of cuts available. We can help you decide! </span></div>
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this year, for those who can’t fit a half into the freezer or want to try lamb –
a $75 “grab bag” option, which includes about 10 lbs of mixed lamb; some
ground, cubed, and a few choice cuts we pick for you!**</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Lamb: $6.75/lb hanging weight,
which averages around 40 - 50 lbs per lamb. </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">Half</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">
a lamb costs $135 - $170 and a whole $270 - $350.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Mutton: $6.00/lb handing weight,
which averages 50 – 60 lbs per ewe. The meat is still tender and richer in
flavor- GREAT for mostly ground or cubed. </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">Half</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">
a lamb will cost about of $150 - $180 and a whole $300 - $360.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Once you reserve and pay a $75
deposit, we send you a cut sheet to fill out. With half lambs, we do our best
to get your cuts, but know since you are sharing a lamb, it doesn’t always work
perfectly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Don’t have enough freezer space?
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">For a
check, please email <a href="mailto:stevegabrielfarmer@gmail.com">stevegabrielfarmer@gmail.com</a>
with subject “LAMB ORDER” with the following info, and mail a check <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for $75 mad our to Wellspring Forest Farm to
6164 Deer Run Ln, Trumansburg NY 14886.</span></div>
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Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-78003764452546488312017-09-26T09:41:00.003-07:002017-09-26T09:54:38.558-07:00Help Farmers in Puerto Rico Rebuild after Hurricane Maria<br />
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As farmers and farm service providers, we are deeply saddened at the images and stories of what farmers in Puerto Rico are experiencing in the wake of Hurricane Maria. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmn6KKIoN3CxH0HfW1KcSEFBQIOqxqWDWCdq0hfT0JDxbknBvfNJcK6Dat8jZipitex_eTJtrUtO3qPt-F-gcni6FssSWKJ2qNpuoV3X6H1tSNsxRQL4-KiaeygEZkPeGJR8Irge_ieY/s1600/21768435_1293082480802124_7951549333187792028_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmn6KKIoN3CxH0HfW1KcSEFBQIOqxqWDWCdq0hfT0JDxbknBvfNJcK6Dat8jZipitex_eTJtrUtO3qPt-F-gcni6FssSWKJ2qNpuoV3X6H1tSNsxRQL4-KiaeygEZkPeGJR8Irge_ieY/s320/21768435_1293082480802124_7951549333187792028_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>The New York Times recently reported that the storm destroyed 80% of crops on the island. The time to recover will not be measured in days or weeks, but months and even years: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-agriculture-.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-agriculture-.html</a><br />
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Efforts are underway by <b>Fondo de Resiliencia Agroecológica (Agroecological Resilience Fund)</b> to collect supplies and monetary donations to help farms rebuild. <br />
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Tara Rodríguez Besosa is one of the main organizers behind the effort and is owner of a local-foods restaurant in San Juan that was lost under six feet of water. Besosa says that it’s, “Important to emphasize that Puerto Rico has not had a healthy food system for some time now. Now, we are at a crucial moment of dealing with a complete wipe-out, both within the little local food system we had come to achieve through small and medium sized agroecological farming, but [also] our forests, rainforests, and bodies of water.“<br />
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See the stories of some of the people you can help here: <a href="http://www.agroecologiapr.org/">http://www.agroecologiapr.org/</a><br />
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For those in the Finger Lakes area of New York, <a href="http://www.wellspringforestfarm.com/">Wellspring Forest Farm</a>
in Mecklenburg, NY is serving as a drop off location for tools and
supplies you wish to get to the island but are not able to mail
yourself. Please contact <a href="mailto:stevegabrielfarmer@gmail.com">stevegabrielfarmer@gmail.com</a> for information on
how to drop off supplies. If your farm is willing to serve as a
drop-off location in New York, please also let Steve know.<br />
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- Annual Seeds (much of the annuals we can grow here, they can grow year round)<br />
Here is a list of requested types: <a href="https://fondoderesilienciapuertorico.tumblr.com/materiales">https://fondoderesilienciapuertorico.tumblr.com/materiales</a><br />
- Water filter systems that don't require electricity (berkey systems, lifestraw, etc)<br />
- Herbal medicines of all sorts (preferably with descriptions of uses)<br />
- Solar chargers<br />
- Solar supplies of any sort<br />
- Small Axes<br />
- Hatchets<br />
- Machetes<br />
- Sharpening stones<br />
- Hand saws<br />
- Timber Hand saws<br />
- Draw knifes<br />
- Hoes<br />
- Shovels<br />
- Irrigation supplies<br />
- Generators<br />
- Chainsaws with extra chains, bar oil, and oil mix. <br />
- Ropes and Cordage<br />
- Shade cloth<br />
- Farming, off-grid, and survival books<br />
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<b>Donations can be mailed to:</b><br />
Fondo de Resiliencia Agroecológica<br />
961 Bergen St, Apt 4B<br />
Brooklyn, NY, 11216<br />
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<b>or to Boulder, CO</b><br />
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Daniella Rodríguez Besosa, 787-431-8424 Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-82352182997079939162017-04-02T05:23:00.001-07:002017-04-02T05:37:48.142-07:00Spring News: Free Article on Wild Leeks, New Farm Video, and Upcoming Classes<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">News from the Woods </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a monthly digest of resources, events, and people in forestry & agroforestry<br /> <br /><b>MARCH 2017 </b>(yes, we know it’s April!)<br /> <br /> <br />Greetings.<br /> <br />We are a little late getting the news out this month due to a busy maple <b>sugaring season</b>. Thanks for your patience and there will be another update later in April in addition to this one.<br /> <br />This month, we offer another<b> FREE article download about Wild Leeks</b>, or Ramps; which many love to forage from the woods. Enjoy this spring treat but harvest with care!<br /> <br />Also excited to share our <b>new FARM VIDEO </b>now live on the homepage of the website and on our YouTube channel. The video is under 5 minutes and gives a brief overview of our farm and school, with some great shots from former apprentice Costa.<br /> <br />We encourage you to immerse yourself in one of our summer programs, which get you out into the woods and give you skills to better steward the forested lands around you. This month we feature the <b>Farming the Forest 3- day workshop in June</b>, which we are running with <a href="http://edibleacres.com/">Edible Acres</a> owner and plant guru Sean Dembrosky. Read on and consider joining us this summer! <b>Sign up by May 1 and get 10% off tuition by using the code: <u>ENEWSMARCH</u></b><br /> <br />Also in June, Steve will teach a weekend workshop called <b>“Gifts from the Forest” at the OMEGA Institute June 9 - 11 in Rhinebeck, NY</b>. Read more about that course here: https://eomega.org/workshops/gifts-from-the-forest#-workshop-description-block<br /> <br />For the trees, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wild Leeks Welcome Us to Spring, but Need Careful Harvesting</b><br /> <br />“Anyone who has come across the ramp, or Wild Leek, Allium tricoccum, likely cannot help but feel a sense of abundance; these amazing plants often show up in clusters that can range from a few square feet to a solid quarter acre or more of green. It’s a welcome gift of the forest in this time of year, as the forest wakes up from a long winter’s nap.”<br /> <br /> <br /><br /><b>DOWNLOAD & READ THE FULL ARTICLE: </b><br /><a href="http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com/">media.wellspringforestfarm.com </a><br /> <br /> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> Costa is currently traveling around the world documenting forest cultures in a series of short videos called “Woodlanders” which you can view here: <a href="http://www.woodlanders.com/">http://www.woodlanders.com/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />Upcoming Events<br /> </span></b><br />See all our programs at: <a href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/">http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com</a><br /> <br /> <br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Farming the Forest </b></span><br /><b>3 day Short Course - JUNE 23 - 25</b><br />with Sean Dembrosky and Steve Gabriel <br /> <br />Discover the possibilities of growing a range of food and medicine in marginal woodlands, hedgerows, and wet places. Explore growing edible mushrooms, elderberry, perennial vegetables, berries, and nuts in temperate woodlands on both a homestead and farm scale.<br /> <br />This course is facilitated by Steve Gabriel of Wellspring Forest Farm, along with Sean Dembrosky of <a href="http://www.edibleacres.com/">Edible Acres</a>. Both have over a decade experience in managing productive small scale agroforestry systems and share their land projects with participants as a living classroom.<br /> <br />Topics covered include:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> • nursery techniques<br /> • low-tech tree propagation<br /> • mushroom cultivation<br /> • biochar production<br /> • integrating animals in the woods<br /> <br />This course is designed for woodland owners, famers, extension professionals, permaculturists, and homesteaders who want to gain a better understanding of the intricacies of forest management and build their skills in the management of productive woodlands.<br /><br /> <br />$300 includes lunch each day<br />$50 to camp onsite, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">or book our spacious yurt on the farm<br /><b> <br />SIGN UP BY MAY 1 and get 10% off!<br />CODE: ENEWSMARCH17<br /> </b><br />REGISTER: <a href="http://stevegabrielfarmer.wixsite.com/wellspringforestfarm/product-page/farming-the-forest-short-course">http://stevegabrielfarmer.wixsite.com/wellspringforestfarm/product-page/farming-the-forest-short-course</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Gifts From the Forest</span></b><br />Growing Food & Medicine While Tending the Woods<br />June 09, 2017 – June 11, 2017<br />Rhinebeck, NY<br /> <br /><br />Take a stroll through the woods and you may find berries for your smoothie, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">mushrooms for your stir fry, syrup for your pancakes, and bark for a medicinal tea—all in your own backyard.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Walking the aisles of nature’s supermarket isn’t as easy as going to the grocery store, but you can learn how to harvest and grow a range of trees, plants, and mushrooms right outside your door to supplement your diet and support your health.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> Guided by Steve Gabriel, coauthor of Farming the Woods, we learn to observe the forest to find natural patterns to replicate in our own farms, gardens, or yards. We explore the trees, plants, and mushrooms that support human health and the health of the woods. We learn proper planting techniques and how to inoculate logs with shiitake mushrooms.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> As we connect more deeply with the place we call home, we regenerate the forest ecosystem of which we’re all a part.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And all year after physicians may play.” <br /> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Old Welsh Rhyme<br /> </span></span></span><br />
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Greetings and Happy February, the SAP IS FLOWING! <br />
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This month we offer another <a href="http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com/"><b>FREE article encouraging you to tap even just a few trees</b></a>, and embark on a journey humans have participated in for thousands of years; drinking tree sap as a nutritious, delicious, and refreshing way to welcome spring.<br />
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Also this month, we are excited to <b>announce our 2017 lineup of workshops and events</b>! You can visit the farm during maple weekend, take an online forestry foundations course, or plan a summer trip to the beautiful Finger Lakes region to <a href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/">attend one of our courses on farming the forest, knife and tool sharpening, and more</a>. <br />
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We also highlight the amazing work of a previous farm apprentice, Costa Boutsikaris, who has come out with a <b>new series of short films</b> as part of his <a href="http://woodlanders.com/">“Woodlanders” project</a>. You can view these videos for FREE and consider <a href="https://www.patreon.com/woodlanders">helping support their production</a>.<br />
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And finally, we are now taking applications for our <b><a href="http://apprenticeship.wellspringforestfarm.com/">Summer Agroforestry Apprentice Training Program</a>, which happens from June – October</b>. Each summer a small group experiences hands-on learning and build their farm and forestry skills, all while participating in our day-to-day activities and attending all of the workshops we offer. <br />
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<b>NEW ARTICLE: Tapping for Sap</b><br />
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Tree saps have long been viewed as a spring tonic by many cultures around the globe. They are loaded with minerals, nutrients, enzymes, antioxidants, phenolic compounds, and more. <br />
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Sap can be drank straight from the tree of course, but can also be used to make a wonderful carbonated beverage with a home soda-maker.<br />
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Simply replace the water with sap, adding as much or as little carbonation as you'd like. It can also be utilized for cooking in soup, stews, and other recipes that call for water. It also makes a wonderful base for brewing beers and coffee beverages.<br />
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Come visit us! We will be open for the New York State Maple Producer’s Association during the annual event celebrating the state’s maple farms:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>MAPLE WEEKEND – March 18 & 19</b></span><br />
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Join us for tours of the farm and sugarshack, taste sap and syrup, and take home our special maple flight! <br />
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<b>Saturday</b> features tours at 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, and 2:30pm, live music, a local farm and craft market, and delicious wood-fired pizzas from our friends at <a href="http://www.rustyovenpizza.com/">The Rusty Oven</a>. <br />
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<b>Announcing our 2017 Workshops!</b><br />
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In offering educational opportunities, we aim to build students knowledge and relationship to the forested landscape, empowering them with skills and tools so they can become better stewards of woodlands and trees.<br />
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We are blessed to have an incredible lineup of guest teachers joining us for the following hikes and workshops: <br />
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<b>The Forest Talks , A series of Guided Hikes</b><br />
1st Wednesdays from May through October 5:00 - 8:00pm<br />
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<b>Farming the Forest , 3 day Short Course</b><br />
JUNE 23 – 25 with Sean Dembrosky of Edible Acres and Steve Gabriel <br />
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<b>Knife and Tool Sharpening Skills Weekend Workshop</b><br />
July 8 & 9 with Wolf Eric Bravo<br />
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<b>Forest Ecology & Management, 3 day Short Course</b><br />
August 19 – 20 with Mike Demunn (Da’ Ha’ da’ nyah) and Steve Gabriel<br />
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<b>Fungi Cultivation & Foraging , 3-day Short Course</b><br />
September 22 – 24 with Olga Tzogas and Steve Gabriel<br />
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Each of our short courses includes access to our online course, which can also be taken as a stand alone experience from anywhere in the world: <br />
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<b>Foundations of Forest Stewardship Online Course</b><br />
Course is available beginning May 1, 2017<br />
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LEARN MORE AND REGISTER: <br />
<a href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/">http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com</a><br />
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<u><b>Resource Spotlight: “Woodlanders” Video Series</b></u><br />
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WOODLANDERS is a new online film series that seeks to document the work of people who care for and depend on forests for their livelihood and well-being throughout the world. The films are created by former farm apprentice Costa Boutsikaris, who is a remarkable filmmaker. <br />
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The first episode features forester Mike DeMunn, who is a close friend and leads many of our hikes and our short course: <br />
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<a href="http://www.woodlanders.com/blog/2017/1/19/ep-1-ecological-forestry">http://www.woodlanders.com/blog/2017/1/19/ep-1-ecological-forestry</a><br />
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The second film features our amazing basket maker friend and neighbor, Jamin Uticone, who creates "baskets of time": <br />
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<a href="http://www.woodlanders.com/blog/2017/2/14/episode-2-black-ash-pack-basket">http://www.woodlanders.com/blog/2017/2/14/episode-2-black-ash-pack-basket</a><br />
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Check out these amazing shorts (under 20 minutes) and consider supporting this great project through a subscription. Costa tells us he plans on traveling to England to document woodland practices if he can reach his fundraising goal.<br />
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I have never seen a reason why every farmer should not have a sugar orchard, as well as an apple orchard. “ <br />
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-- Thomas Jefferson<br />
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“News from the Woods” is brought to you by:<br />
Wellspring Forest Farm & School <br />
<i>leaving forests in our footsteps</i><br />
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Mecklenburg, NY<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our apprenticeship training program is designed
to train participants in the art and science of forest ecology, and equip them
with practical skills and experience in management of productive agroforestry systems as they learn from experienced foresters and farmers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We focus on taking the time to support individual learning and skill building
in this four-month experiential educational program.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma";">“This program is a completely immersive experience
into the world of agroforestry. Time spent cultivating mushrooms, learning
proper chainsaw use, rotationally grazing sheep, and learning forestry
principles left a profound impact on my life. I learned and grew more than I
ever could have hoped.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- Wyatt, 2016 Participant</span></div>
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<span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-weight: normal;">During the
summer program, trainees live on-farm or commute to the site two days a week
and learn by engaging in the production of mushrooms, duck eggs, pastured lamb,
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<span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-weight: normal;">Apprentices also participate in <a href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/">all our educational programming</a> and learn skills, including chainsaw safety and use of a scythe and other hand tools.</span></span></h4>
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<span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-weight: normal;">Learning
on a working forest farm broadens understanding of forest farming,
agroforestry, permaculture, and forest gardening systems, providing training in
the technical and business skills required to run a small farm or homestead. </span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-weight: normal;"></span></h4>
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<span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-weight: normal;">The Summer
session runs </span></span><span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 1 -
October 1</span></span><span class="color35"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-weight: normal;"> with work days on Mondays and Thursdays each week. End date is
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">News from the Woods</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a monthly digest of resources, events,
and people in forestry & agroforestry</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2016 in Review</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Past articles and issues
at: <a href="http://news.wellspringforestfarm.com/">news.wellspringforestfarm.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rather than offer brand new content this month, we thought we would revisit the range
stories we shared with you this year, in case you missed a resource we shared
or want to revisit a topic that interested you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2016, we offered articles
on a number of topics including harvesting wild leeks, navigating the complex
world of medicinal fungi, mushroom foraging tips, and the amazing ability of
dried mushrooms to accumulate vitamin D from sunlight. Find links to these, and
more, below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our goal with this
newsletter, which just started this past May, is to provide useful and relevant
information in the areas of farming, forestry, and agroforesry, along with
updates on the offerings of Wellspring Forest Farm & School. Let us know
how we are doing!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We offer this monthly
through email, though you can view the newsletter at our website anytime, with
a bit more flair (pretty pictures) at: <a href="http://news.wellspringforestfarm.com/">news.wellspringforestfarm.com</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the coming year, we are
excited to share stories on small scale logging, maple syrup (and sap)
production, and of course, much more on mushrooms, as well as an exciting round
of workshops and events we are currently planning. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We want to wish you and
yours a safe and happy year ahead, and hope that together we can work to
improve the health of the environment, the dignity of all people, and the
viability of farming and homesteading for all. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For the trees,<br />
Steve & Elizabeth</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2016 Recap</span></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In MAY…</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma";">We talked about the
properties of Ephemeral plants in the woods, including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wild Leeks, or Ramps</b> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Allium
tricoccum</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have an article on
the Farming the Woods blog about the dangers in overharvesting these amazing
plants: <a href="https://farmingthewoods.com/2015/04/11/wild-leeks-welcome-us-to-spring-but-need-careful-harvesting/">https://farmingthewoods.com/2015/04/11/wild-leeks-welcome-us-to-spring-but-need-careful-harvesting/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">14-week Mushroom CSA was launched</b>, where local residents to the
Ithaca/Trumansburg/Watkins Glen areas of the finger lakes in New York can
access fresh shiitake, oyster, and other mushrooms from our farm and forage
from the newby woods. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We are taking orders for our 2017 season,
now!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We shared some basic tips
on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wild Foraging Mushrooms</b> in a post,
which is now a free downloadable PDF article available at <a href="http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com/">media.wellspringforestfarm.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We announced our series of
<b>3-day short courses</b>, which will return in 2017. We cover topics such as
forestry, fungi, and agroforestry, and plan to announce dates and themes for
this year in late January 2017, so stay tuned!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For now, we are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">accepting applications for our 2017
apprenticeship training</b> program and have also posted the dates for our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maple Weekend, March 18 & 19</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">SEE: <a href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/">http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our newsletter explored
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We shared about our
experience with the historic drought, in an article called: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“40% of New York is in Drought, What do the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And we explored the
benefits of dehydrating mushrooms in the sun in an article titled, <b>“Storing
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We announced the writing
of Steve’s new book, Silvopasture, which explores the beneficial ways animals and trees can work together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We reflected on the common
values and beliefs that our country must agree on to move forward; recommitting
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our ONLINE STORE opened
for the season, with offerings of our products including dried shiitake,
shiitake seasoning, elderberry extract, maple syrup, books, and sheep hides.
Still some items left from our 2016 harvest!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-59624452253667789362016-11-30T12:44:00.000-08:002016-11-30T12:44:52.413-08:00November News from the World: An Important Message<b><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 14pt;">News from the <s>Woods</s></span></b><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 14pt;">World</span></b><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">View it online, as well as past issues: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://link.gmreg3.net/x/c?c%3D621706%26l%3D291bad25-92b4-49a1-a1a9-0d32edbf2172%26r%3D750577fd-f139-422f-a8f3-542e1584298c&source=gmail&ust=1480625042640000&usg=AFQjCNF4PMZOqVKPwYNJjkUCsLwYICm1gQ" href="http://link.gmreg3.net/x/c?c=621706&l=291bad25-92b4-49a1-a1a9-0d32edbf2172&r=750577fd-f139-422f-a8f3-542e1584298c" target="_blank">news.wellspringforestfarm.com</a>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">This month’s update is
going to be different. Given recent events that redefine this time
in history, we must pause for a moment and take in the big picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">No matter who you
supported, or didn’t support, for the recent US election (even those of you
outside the US), it is hard to deny that these events have greatly elevated many
fundamental questions about beliefs and values in democracy and in people. It’s
clear that people all over the world will be affected by the coming
administration, its policies and priorities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">In a two party system, when there are only two
sides presented, few people, if any, will find a perspective that fully matches their
viewpoints. The reality is that each person on this planet carries with them a
unique perspective, one that comes from their upbringing, personal experiences,
and goals for living the life they desire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">We believe firmly that
people have a right to their beliefs, <i>so long as they don’t impede the
freedom of others</i>. There is no reason people need to oppress any group of
people in the pursuit of their own destiny. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">We denounce and
refuse to support any individuals, institutions, or groups that judge or
threaten the freedom of any people on the base of race, color, gender, national
origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or gender expression.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">In reality, each of us is
seeking to live our lives, support our families, and perhaps play a meaningful
role in the world. Everyone has the right to explore life, work, and engage in
hobbies and pursuits they find personally enriching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">We had planned to launch a
fundraising campaign last week for the new Silvopasture book Steve is writing,
however, we are postponing this effort at this time. It is a time of great
uncertainty and unrest for too many. Rather than looking ahead, and asking
for money, now is a time for reflection, discussion, and action in our local
communities, as a nation, and as humanity.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">If you are reading
this, we sincerely hope you will consider how you will work to uphold the
values that support peace and justice in our global society. Thinking, feeling,
and reflecting must be followed by action. </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">Part of our reflecting has
led us to doubling-down on our efforts in farming and forestry, where we
demonstrate and advocate for better ways to grow the foods and
medicine’s that sustain us while also supporting healthy trees, forest
landscapes and ecosystems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">At the core of our farm,
the books we’ve written, and the classes we teach is the notion that humanity
can rebuild its broken relationship with the natural world and support its
regeneration, while also providing needs for people to survive and thrive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">When Steve wrote <u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://link.gmreg3.net/x/c?c%3D621706%26l%3D40fa59e0-c22c-4628-b317-616e5cd076c6%26r%3D750577fd-f139-422f-a8f3-542e1584298c&source=gmail&ust=1480625042640000&usg=AFQjCNHJc32FDwg4CTMQHkd-QEm1ptVEfw" href="http://link.gmreg3.net/x/c?c=621706&l=40fa59e0-c22c-4628-b317-616e5cd076c6&r=750577fd-f139-422f-a8f3-542e1584298c" target="_blank">Farming the Woods</a></u>, the goal was to expand the possibilities of what one could do
with their forest land and encourage farmers to see more value in their wooded
lands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">The current book on <u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://link.gmreg3.net/x/c?c%3D621706%26l%3Dcc0ddf09-fc2a-4d2c-aa32-5636149f6454%26r%3D750577fd-f139-422f-a8f3-542e1584298c&source=gmail&ust=1480625042640000&usg=AFQjCNH9cjS-Sau0fMax6ClMwmQwK1BRfQ" href="http://link.gmreg3.net/x/c?c=621706&l=cc0ddf09-fc2a-4d2c-aa32-5636149f6454&r=750577fd-f139-422f-a8f3-542e1584298c" target="_blank">Silvopasture</a></u>
expands this idea further, focusing on a farming system that is among the best
in offering both a economic solution for rural landscapes, along with an
ecology that increases a landscapes resilience to climate change. The book will
bring together the stories and science to help more people adopt the practice
on their farms and homesteads around the US.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">In the coming months, we
will be sharing snippets of this work, as we consider how silvopasture offers
solutions to our broken food system, from the way we confine and feed animals
processed grains, to the challenges agriculture as whole faces in a
climate that is rapidly changing in unpredictable ways. Stay tuned for updates each month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">In this way, we are
re-focusing and recommitting to this work as ever more important. While we also
consider steps to address issues of social inequity in our lives, we are
<b>inviting <u><i>your</i></u> ideas about how forest farming, silvopasture, and farming relate to
social justice and equity in our world. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12pt;">We welcome your thoughts
and are open to constructive dialogue from all corners as we continue to
work on being good humans on this good earth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">News from the Woods</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
a monthly digest of resources, events, and people in forestry &
agroforestry</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Welcome to the October news from <a href="http://www.wellspringforestfarm.com/">Wellspring Forest Farm and School</a>. Each month,
we share useful information about methods for improving forest health and
increasing productivity and diversity, along with the happenings of our farm
and educational programs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This month, we have BIG
news. Steve is writing <a href="http://www.silvopasturebook.com/">another book</a> – this time on the agroforestry practice of
<a href="http://nac.unl.edu/practices/silvopasture.htm">Silvopasture</a>, which combines trees, livestock, and pasture. Read more below,
and stay tuned for a series of free articles and webinars on various aspects of
farm design and management considerations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the trees,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>On<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Working the W<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">oods for <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ourselves, and Wildlife</span></span></span></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As the busy season winds
down, we find ourselves thinking ahead to the winter, which we have found is
the best time to do cutting and clearing in the woods, for a few reasons:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It’s best for forest health. </b>As the ground freezes, it protects
itself from damage that machinery, foot traffic, and fallen trees can do to the
soil and vegetation in the woods. Colder temperatures mean more solid ground and
less mud, and sensitive forest plants are dormant and protected underground</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> It keeps us active and warm</b>. When running a chainsaw, safety gear
is a must. I can’t tell you how many close calls I’ve experienced in the woods.
All that gear is heavy – and hot, if cutting in the warmer months. In winter
it’s a welcome layer of protection, and nothing beats doing woods work and
breaking a sweat, even on a subzero day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dormant trees are safer to cut.</b> During the growing season, trees
are much more “bendy” and easier to hang up on one another. Thick, leafy vegetation
also obscures branches which if dead pose a safety hazard and if alive are easy
to get caught on another tree. In winter, trees are more stiff, and one can
more easily see the whole tree and calculate risk when felling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As mentioned last month,
Fall is a great time to assess and mark trees in your woodlot, while winter is
the best time to cut and move them. Over the next month, make some time to walk
you woods and observe which trees appear to be healthiest, and which are less
so. Bring a roll of flagging tape to make trees that you can conceive cutting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Selecting trees takes keen
observation and decision making skills. It isn’t simple. One of the errors we
see landowners and farmers do again and again are to look around their woods
and cut <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">standing dead trees for firewood</b>.
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a BAD IDEA for two
reasons; one is that the firewood value is lessened, as fungi and other
microbes are decomposing and consuming the lignin in the wood, and the other is
that these trees, especially if over 10” in diameter, serve a much more valuble
widlife function. They are apartment complexes for woodpeckers, rodents, and
insects, which spread seedand fungi spores, fertilize, and support the overall
health of the forest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We call standing deadwood
a “snag.” Snags offer a home and food source for many of the forest critters
who are critical to enhancing forest health. It is recommended that one
maintains 5 – 10 good snags <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per acre</i>
in their woods. Of course, it is wise to remove snags if they are in a place
that could cause damage to people or equipment, such as along roads or trails. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">READ MORE ABOUT SNAGS: <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fsbdev2_026701">http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fsbdev2_026701</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you don’t have an
abundance of snags, you can create them by girdling trees. This simple practice
requires just a hand saw, axe and some time in the woods, and can greatly
improve biodiversity in your woodlot. Simply select a tree you want to girdle
and cut two rings around the circumference 1 – 2” deep in two rings about 4”
apart. With the axe, remove the outer and inner back between the two lines you
cut, to ensure the tree dies slowly over time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Trees that are softer and
that decay easier make the best ones for widlife, as woodpeckers and insects
and easily get into the wood. Some species to favor include basswood, poplar,
pines, and red maples among others. Girdled trees can take anywhere from a few years to a few decades to fall over.<br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A new book is in the works by ecologist, author, and
farmer Steve Gabriel. Over the past 14 years, Steve has passionately pursued work that re-connects people to the forested
landscape and supports them to grow their skills in forest and farm
stewardship. He currently works as
Agroforestry Extension Specialist for the <u><a href="http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/">Cornell Small Farms Program</a></u> and
co-operates <u><a href="http://wellspringforestfarm.com/">Wellspring Forest Farm
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explores the cultivation of mushrooms, fruits, nuts, and more, all within the
canopy of an existing forest. The book has been called "exceptionally
useful" and "highly recommended" as a resource for temperature
agroforestry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Steve is again teaching an
online course in <b><a href="http://www.nebeginningfarmers.org/online-courses/all-courses/woodland-mushroom-cultivation-bf-151/">Woodland Mushroom Cultivation</a></b> through the Cornell Small Farm Program,
running <b>November 8 – December 13</b>, with Webinars on Tuesday evenings from
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He will also co-teach an
online course in <b>Oyster Production in Barns, High Tunnels, and Greenhouses </b>with
Willie Crosby from <a href="http://www.fungially.com/">Fungi Ally</a> in MA, <b>March
1 – April 5 2017</b>: </span></span><br />
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</span>Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-47811522245459902632016-10-03T06:40:00.004-07:002016-10-03T09:07:07.040-07:00Purchase our Pastured Lamb and Support Local Food and Regenerative Farming <style>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Wellspring Forest Farm
& School, in Mecklenburg, NY is selling pastured lamb & mutton, by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">half or whole.</b> Your purchase supports
regenerative, local farming and provides you and your family with healthy meat for the table. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We are taking orders now
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";">Our Katahdin sheep produce
flavorful and tender meat and live an idyllic life, grazing always on pasture
and in the woods. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We rotationally graze, moving the flock from
paddock to paddock every few days. Regularly moving the sheep builds soil,
sequesters carbon, and promotes native vegetation, while also supporting
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our farm philosophy is not to raise sheep just for meat, but rather to raise happy animals that get to live life as their biology desires, supporting the rebuilding of a healthy farm landscape. The meat we sell allows us to manage this system, and is a byproduct of good farming practices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Lamb: </u>$6.75/lb hanging weight,
which averages around 40 - 50 lbs per lamb. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";">Half</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> a lamb will cost about of
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Mutton</u>: $6.00/lb handing
weight, which averages 50 – 60 lbs per ewe. The meat is still tender and richer
in flavor. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";">Half</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> a lamb will cost about of $150 - $180 and a whole
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">With lamb, you can
choose your cuts with your order. We send you a cut sheet to fill out once we
have your deposit and your order is confirmed. If you want a half lamb and are
particular about your cuts, we suggest finding a friend to purchase with so you
can order a whole together, choose cuts and split it between yourselves – with
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">With mutton, our personal preference is to have it mostly processed
into ground or cubes for stews, burgers and similar, but happy to follow any
requests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your order includes a variety
of cuts for the freezer, excellent for cooking roasts or stews. We provide
recipes and ideas for preparing the various cuts with your order. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>pick-up location</u> (Ithaca or on farm, in
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Wellspring Forest Farm
& School, owned by Steve and Elizabeth Gabriel, is a regenerative farm
enterprise that seeks to improve the health of the land while producing food
and medicine. In addition to lamb, we produce mushrooms, maple syrup, duck
eggs, and elderberry extract. We teach people about forest stewardship and
cultivation of forest products through educational hikes, workshops, and
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our Katahdin flock is one-four
years old and only has grazed on pasture and tree fodder. They live on pasture
year round, eating locally grown hay when pasture is covered by snow. We have
kept good records and monitored sheep health, selecting lines for parasite
resistance, good mothering, body conditioning and temperament. The Katahdin
breed, a hair sheep, known for being calm, hardy, and resistant to common sheep
diseases. Read more about the breed: <a href="http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/katahdin">http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/katahdin</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>News from the Woods</b><br />a monthly digest of resources, events, and people in forestry & agroforestry </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcome to the September news from Wellspring Forest Farm and School. Each month, we share useful information about methods for improving forest health and increasing productivity and diversity, along with the happenings of our farm and educational programs.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />This month – read about how fall colors may be affected by the drought, consider the science of storing sunlight in dried shiitake mushrooms, and join us at the Radical Mycology Convergence October 6 – 10.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While it may not be a surprise, given the drought, that fall colors will probably be delayed, short in their display, and muted in their brilliance, we can nevertheless glean some useful lessons from this challenging season. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pay attention to the trees in your woods that change color and drop eariliest – these indeed are likely signs of stress and can help you identify which trees might be best to consider thinning. The sprectrum of health in a woods will become incredibly prominent in the coming weeks, and its useful information for an observant steward. Consider marking stressed trees with flagging, so you can revist them in the winter as you consider candidates for thinning.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fid/august97/08259704.html"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fid/august97/08259704.html</span></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> <br />Still, if you are aching to see good colors, you might be advised to scout for cooler areas that were not as affected by drought conditions. This guide by Donald Leopold from SUNY ESF is a good summary of some of the best spots in Central NY.<br /><a href="http://www.esf.edu/ecenter/CNY%20Fall%20Colors.pdf">http://www.esf.edu/ecenter/CNY%20Fall%20Colors.pdf</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> <br />Long term, its uncertain what fates the beloved fall colors of the Northeast will experience from climate change. An interesting series of articles looks at the research of this question, highly recommended reading for those interested.<br /><a href="http://biology.appstate.edu/fall-colors/update-whether-climate-change-will-affect-fall-leaf-color-displays">http://biology.appstate.edu/fall-colors/update-whether-climate-change-will-affect-fall-leaf-color-displays</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />We have released a FREE article at our website, called <b>“Storing Sunlight for Winter: The Amazing Ability of Mushrooms to Accumulate Vitamin D.” </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><br />In it, we explore the science of solar dehydration of mushrooms, which can increase their vitamin D content tremendously. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />This is key for many of us in the northern half of the US, as our ability to synthesize D from the sun is eliminated once we get into the winter months. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> <br /><a href="http://stevegabrielfarmer.wixsite.com/wellspringforestfarm/media">DOWNLOAD the article at our website "MEDIA" Page</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On October 6-10, 2016, the 4th Radical Mycology Convergence (RMC) will commence on a land trust in Wingdale to teach participants how mycology (the science of fungi) can address various social and environmental issues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://radicalmycologyconvergence.wordpress.com/schedule/">The schedule has just been released!</a> Steve will be presenting on Friday afternoon, on woodland mushroom production and forest health.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A donation-based, volunteer-run gathering, the RMC is unlike any other mushroom-based event in both its scope of information and grassroots ethos. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />By bringing together hundreds of mycologists, fungal enthusiasts, activists, and sustainability advocates, the RMC seeks to spread awareness around how fungi can strengthen the personal, social, and ecological systems of the world in a positive and proactive way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve is again teaching the popular online course <a href="http://www.nebeginningfarmers.org/online-courses/all-courses/woodland-mushroom-cultivation-bf-151/">BF 151: Woodland Mushroom Cultivation</a> through the Cornell Small Farm Program, running <b>November 8 – December 13</b>, with Webinars on Tuesday evenings from 6 – 7:30pm EST. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Learn more at: <a href="http://www.nebeginningfarmers.org/online-courses/all-courses/woodland-mushroom-cultivation-bf-151/">http://www.nebeginningfarmers.org/online-courses/all-courses/woodland-mushroom-cultivation-bf-151/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He will also co-teach an online course in Oyster Production in Barns, High Tunnels, and Greenhouses with Willie Crosby from <a href="http://www.fungially.com/">Fungi Ally</a> in MA, <b>March 1 – April 5 2017</b>: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, we will be appearing at several conferences this fall and winter, to share our experience with mushrooms, agroforestry, and ducks: </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">October 7 at the <a href="https://radicalmycologyconvergence.wordpress.com/">Radical Mycology Convergence </a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">November 11 at <a href="http://nesawg.org/our-work/conference/workshops?utm_source=NESAWG+Email+List&utm_campaign=2766d75090-Registration_now_open_Conference_20158_11_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_07fb56aaa1-2766d75090-422888417&mc_cid=2766d75090&mc_eid=ffa7fb6fdb">NESAWG's It Takes a Region Conference</a></span></span></b><br />
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Welcome to the August news from <b>Wellspring Forest Farm and School</b>. Each month, we share useful information about methods for improving forest health and increasing productivity and diversity, along with the happenings of our farm and educational programs <br />
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This month – lots on the mushroom front! We’ve released a<b> free article on medicinal mushrooms</b>, and are still taking registrations for our <b>Fungi Cultivation & Foraging Short Course (September 16 – 18)</b> and also an exciting <b>regional fungi convergence coming</b> to New York in October.<br />
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More and more, people are curious about the medicinal properties of mushrooms. We’ve learned a lot over the past year as we dealt with a cancer diagnosis and wanted to share our findings with the greater world:<br />
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<i>“The medical “supplement” world, reserved in the US at least for all those treatments and products without verification from the medical establishments, is full of stories from vendors trying to sell you a product. Each has a special process, f ormula, and belief system that led to their product. Unfortunately, much of it is convoluted sales talk, and it’s hard for the consumer to know what is truth”</i><br />
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<i><b>THIS WEEKEND</b></i>: We are one of the stops for the Finger Lakes Permaculture Site Tours and Convergence. Steve will also be speaking about mushroom cuultivation on Sunday. <br />
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Friday includes a showing of the film INHABIT, which our farm appears in. On Saturday there are over 20 sites open for tours. And Sunday there will be presentations, a plant sale, and more at the Schuyler County Cooperative Extension.<br />
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<b>Fungi Cultivation & Foraging Short Course </b><br />
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Explore the wondrous world of fungi and learn how to grow and forage mushrooms with Farming the Woods co-author Steve Gabriel and special guest Olga Trozgos from Smugtown Mushrooms. During this 3-day course participants will identify wild mushrooms and learn tree ID and forest ecology, inoculate logs, straw, and grain, learn low-tech propagation techniques, build a stormwater biofilter, make medicine and, of course, cook and eat mushrooms. Overall, the class seeks to engage participants with the fungal world and through an understanding of it see the positive potential in continued learning and engagement. Each of these practices is framed in the context of eastern forest ecology and ultimately as our role to steward the health of the forested landscape.<br />
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SEE THE COURSE SCHEDULE AND REGISTER: <a href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/">http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/</a><br />
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On October 6-10, 2016, the 4th Radical Mycology Convergence (RMC) will commence on a land trust in Wingdale to teach participants how mycology (the science of fungi) can address various social and environmental issues. <br />
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A donation-based, volunteer-run gathering, the RMC is unlike any other mushroom-based event in both its scope of information and grassroots ethos. By bringing together hundreds of mycologists, fungal enthusiasts, activists, and sustainability advocates, the RMC seeks to spread awareness around how fungi can strengthen the personal, social, and ecological systems of the world in a positive and proactive way.<br />
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Started in 2011 by a small group of friends, the RMC has grown over the last 5 years to become the main gathering for an international cadre of mushroom activists and advocates. Unlike most other mycology events that focus on safely identifying and cooking mushrooms, the RMC covers a wealth of largely inaccessible information around mycology. <br />
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The five days of presentations, hands-on workshops, and discussions cover low-cost mushroom cultivation, cleaning up pollution with fungi, medicinal mushrooms, mushroom art, fungal ecology, and teaching fungi to children. These powerful tools, normally hard to access, are all taught by the RMC organizers and international presenters. <br />
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<br />Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-86273927163051766052016-07-23T06:10:00.003-07:002016-07-23T06:10:53.361-07:00JULY "News from the Woods": Invasive species, Learn forestry & fungi, Tradd Cotter
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">What a dry
summer it’s been! We in fact are in <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/">severe
drought</a>, and our little town is the <a href="http://www.newyorkupstate.com/weather/2016/07/parched_some_parts_of_upstate_ny_have_had_less_than_1_inch_of_rain_this_summer.html">driest
in all of New York</a>. We’ve had a very poor year in the mushroom yard, and
our sheep have been <a href="http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/2016/07/40-of-new-york-is-in-drought-what-do.html">working
hard for their forage</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">We have
gotten a lot of interest from folks in our short courses and we were hearing
that many found the price and timing challenging – so we’ve responded by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shortening
our Forestry & Agroforestry course to be three days (August 13 – 15) and
just $300.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a chance to
learn from some of the most experienced foresters in the Northeast. See the
schedule, posted below!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our <span class="color35"><b>Fungi Cultivation & Foraging Short Course (</b>September
16 – 20) will still be the full five days, as we want to accommodate the travel
of the amazing and talented Tradd Cotter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This
is one of the only appearances he is making in the Northeast, so don’t miss
out!</i> </span></span></div>
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<span class="color35"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tradd was recently featured in a <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/mushroom-surprising-uses-building-material-medicines-fungi/">National
Geographic video</a> disussing the wide range of ways fungi can help solve some
of the worlds most pressing challenges. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">As we teach
and continue to learn from the woods, a common question that arises from
students is, “what about invasive species?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is a
complex and complicated issue, one that requires a multitude of approaches
specific to a given place and time in the development of a forest. But, was is
intriguing is that many scientists are starting to see that pesky plants and
critters may achieve a balance over time, even the one many forest owners love
to hate, Garlic Mustard (</span><em><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alliaria petiolata)</span></em><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160614121530.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160614121530.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">These new
discoveries encourage us to pause and take a longer view of ecological
succession over time. Forest decisions happen over multiple generations, not over
a few years. Its part of a much larger cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">A highly
recommended book toward a deeper understanding of these concepts is called <u><a href="http://www.beacon.org/The-New-Wild-P1090.aspx">A New Wild by Fred Pearce</a></u>,
which draws upon scientific research along with many real-world examples of how
the dynamics so-called “invasive” species change and find balance over time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Part of the
conversation has to do with how we construct out views of what is “natural” and
“native” to the forest. With all the changes in the land that have taken place
(many at the hands of humans and through climate change), there is really no “original”
or “primeval” forest type we can seek to exemplify. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Instead,
one might consider the concept of novel ecosystems – which better describes the
composition of so many of the landscapes around the world. Novel ecosystems
according to one paper are, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…a unique
assemblage of biota and environmental conditions that is the direct result of
intentional or unintentional alteration by humans… sufficient to cross an
ecological threshold that facilitates a new ecosystem trajectory and inhibits
its return to a previous trajectory regardless of additional human
intervention.”</i></span></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art12/ES-2013-6192.pdf</span></cite><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">In other
words, “there ain’t no going back!” – much of invasive species talk, and forest
management is considered in terms of the original species, composition, and
structure of what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> – instead, we
might do better to look forward to what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could
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with the incredibly dry conditions, we’ve been getting our sheep into the
woods, and this month ask the question on our blog:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">“40% of New York is in Drought, What
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techniques for eastern woodlands by exploring old growth forests and visiting
farms and nurseries practicing agroforestry, forest farming, and silvopasture
in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
instructors have spent decades studying forest & fungi ecology and
developing skills to share with students through woods walks, hands-on
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Steve Gabriel</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">, co-author of Farming the Woods,
will present forestry principles, tree assessment/measurements, and mushroom
cultivation</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mike Demunn</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">, renowned forester and
conservationist for over thirty will lead forest walks share the ecology,
history, and managing for wildlife.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sean Dembrosky</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"> of Edible Acres nursery will teach
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">Brett Chedzoy</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;">, extension forester and beef farmer
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Explore
the wondrous world of fungi and learn how to grow and forage mushrooms with
Farming the Woods co-author Steve Gabriel and special guest instructor Tradd
Cotter of Mushroom Mountain and author of Organic Mushrooms Farming &
Mycoremediation.<br />
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During this 5-day intensive course participants will identify wild mushrooms
and learn tree ID and forest ecology, inoculate logs, straw, and grain, learn
low-tech propagation techniques, build a stormwater biofilter, create a styrofoam
substitute, and, of course, cook and eat mushrooms.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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of the month is Tradd Cotter, a visionary mycologist who spends his time
growing, researching, and teaching others about the wonders of fungi. Tradd is
a passionate person whose love for mushrooms and enthusiasm make learning about
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like many mushroom growers, fascinated by the beauty and allure of fungi and
interested mostly in culinary and edible uses. This started a learning journey
over the last several decades where Tradd has perfected his craft in many
aspects of cultivation and use, including </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">developing new
products like mushroom-infused beers, exploring the ways mushrooms can help
clean our environment, and using mushrooms instead of pesticides in treating
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He and his wife Olga run <a href="http://mushroommountain.com/">Mushroom Mountain</a>, which in the
past few years moved to a new facility and offers a variety of mushroom
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the research he really wants to do. He is constantly curious and playing with
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Drought conditions really shine a light in the dark corners of the
farm, illuminating the aspects of our systems that are most vulnerable. At our
best, we can learn from the lessons presented before us, and at our worst we
crumble in fear and let our daily anxiety overwhelm us.
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Droughts, floods, and crop failure are nothing new for
humanity and especially not for farmers. The choice we have is to be better
prepared to anticipate these inevitable extremes the next time around. With all
the incredible and innovative people getting into farming I have a lot of hope
– yet we must have the difficult conversations and daylight our weaknesses and
vulnerabilities as well as celebrate our strengths. </div>
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Farming teaches us that there can’t be a single catch-all
solution to a problem, but instead we must draw up a range of strategies to
keep things moving ahead. And while our farm has its fair share of tanks,
pumps, and infrastructure to store, hold, and move water where we need it, we
always go back to the biological systems, to examine and explore the stories
they have to tell us.</div>
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It’s remarkable that trees and woody plants hardly look
different this year. Sure, there is sometimes some wilting, and new growth is
certainly diminished – but overall the trees, and especially the forest, look
remarkably the same whether it’s a dry, normal, or wet year. </div>
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There is a lot of research, along with human experience, to
back up the benefits of trees and forested ecosystems in the context of a more
dynamic climate, and one has to go no further than their local woodlot or
preserve to see it firsthand. Our fields are brown and parched, our gardens
wilting were it not for the irrigation, and yet the forest stands true and
tall, doing its thing. </div>
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We planted trees in our pasture when we first arrived four
years ago. We’ve seen over decades of tree planting that a proper hole, along
with more intensive care (water, reducing weed pressure, nutrients) during the
first three years gives most trees a foothold to thrive and take care of
themselves. Considering that these trees could live for decades if not hundreds
of years makes the investment a good one. </div>
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This season, the Willows, Red Alders, and Black Locust were
finally above browse height so the sheep could graze amongst them. The trees
were like a magnet; the sheep spend time digesting their forages in their
shade, and they put extra effort into grabbing onto the lower branches and
stripping the leaves with their teeth. The woody plants provide good nutrients
and extra tannins, which can help reduce parasite issues in our flock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Trees and woody vegetation, though, have a slower recovery
time. We certainly need pasture with its fast growing grasses and forbs as the
mainstay of our sheep’s diet. Yet as we make our second rotation around the
farm, those forages are almost non-existent in these conditions. We’ve taken to
carving paths through our field edges and hedgerows- mostly packed with thick
shrubby vegetation like honeysuckle and multi-flora rose – and the sheep love
it! Most remarkable is the mutual offering of food and shade these marginal
spaces offer. Plus there is a labor savings for us – we haven’t moved our
portable shade shelter in six weeks, because the sheep don’t need it. </div>
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There are even more unseen benefits of trees and woodlands
on our farm – most notably in this dry time the difference in air humidity from
pasture to forest. Mature trees cycle hundreds of gallons of water per day,
though their roots and our their shoots, a necessary release that is part of
the photosynthetic process. Our sheep shelter doesn’t provide an ambient
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In a time of stress and vulnerability, trees are showing us
the way, and providing our animals shelter, food, and air conditioning. They
offer us a signpost of a way forward; we just have to figure out the kinks of
how trees can be integrated into our farm in a way that still allows us to move
fence, machinery, and animals efficiently. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, we began planting trees on contoured rows about
30 feet apart – only to realize that our sheep prefer wider alleys more like 45
– 60 feet apart. Part of planting trees is letting some go – recognizing that
this process of growing, dying, changing is all part of the dance. </div>
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As we evaluate our choices, systems, and preparedness in the
wake of this very hard year for land and farming, one element has become clear;
trees and wooded areas will continue to become more and more a part of the
farm. We continue to see the benefits, not only in dry times but also in times
of excessive rain – the climate change phenomenon some say we are more likely
to experience. </div>
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Related to all this is a discovery that the marginal edges
of the farm – the overgrown hedgerows and thickets of thorny brush – offer respite
and a largely undervalued resource. These areas haven’t been maintained in the
past because the land was managed with a tractor – and this vegetation persists
where it’s awkward or unfeasible for the tractor to go. When we traced the
lines of these spaces in Google Earth we found that we have several more acres
of pasture available – we just have to begin managing it. </div>
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As we continue investing in trees, we are expanding our palette
of species, to match the various areas of the farm and continue our process of
reforesting the farm for the multitude of benefits offered. IN addition to the
early success stories of the locust, alder, and willow, we are bringing Hybrid
Poplar, Sycamore, Birch, Elderberry, Aronia, Paw Paw, and more into the wet
riparian areas of the farm, so that we can support healthy water ecology both
in times of dry and wet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
clearing brush and leaving behind the native White Pines, Hawthornes, Maples,
Oaks, and Hickories that persist, thinning them only enough so that we can
establish and understory of grazing forages on the woodland floor.</div>
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In this way, each time we experience extreme weather, our
farm will be more ready to respond. Each year, as the systems grow, there is
more invested in that stable, reliable character the forests and its trees
offer. And we are confident that any farm producing any range of products would
benefit from the addition of trees to its layout – we just have to work out the
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systems in action at several farms, along with an in-depth study of forest
ecology in some of the most diverse forests in North America during the
<u>Forestry & Agroforestry Short Course</u> at Wellspring Forest Farm August 12 –
16. </i></b></div>
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in Mecklenburg, NY is pleased to offer a 5-day short course in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Forestry &Agroforestry</b> this August 13 - 15
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instructors have spent decades studying forest & fungi ecology and
developing management skills to share with students through woods walks,
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as take home practical skills they can immediately use on their own acreage or
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Farm & School</a>, a living example of productive and restorative
agroforestry farming that features forest and indoor mushroom production,
rotational grazing of ducks and sheep, and production of forest products
including maple and elderberry syrup. </span></div>
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Wild mushroom foraging is an wonderful way to get to know the woods, as it requires
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mushrooms, you don’t need to learn EVERY mushroom you encounter. Most mushrooms
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collection, storage, and documentation is important if you want to get a good
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and forage mushrooms with Farming the Woods co-author Steve Gabriel and special
guest instructor Tradd Cotter of Mushroom Mountain and author of Organic
Mushrooms Farming & Mycoremediation.</span><br />
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<span class="color35">During this 5-day intensive course participants will
identify wild mushrooms and learn tree ID and forest ecology, inoculate logs,
straw, and grain, learn low-tech propagation techniques, build a stormwater
biofilter, create a styrofoam substitute, and, of course, cook and eat
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</span>Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-90010846671838863212016-05-10T07:13:00.001-07:002016-05-10T07:17:21.045-07:00May "News from the Woods" Newsletter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">News from the
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a monthly digest of
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in forestry &
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2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Greetings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Welcome
to the monthly news of <b>Wellspring Forest
Farm and School</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each
month, we share useful information about methods for improving forest health
and increasing productivity and diversity, along with the happenings of our
farm and educational programs.</span></div>
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newsletter will be emailed to you each month. You can read it in your email,
download the attached PDF, or <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://news.wellspringforestfarm.com&source=gmail&ust=1462975798829000&usg=AFQjCNEtiVUTbuyYVMLcs-u7Ln_6vy0G1w" href="http://news.wellspringforestfarm.com/" target="_blank">view
it on our website</a>. You are welcome to unsubscribe at any time. Instructions
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">May
marks a dramatic transition in the forest, where the spring thaw has paved the
way for a remarkable window in time, where many spring ephemeral plants emerge
from hiding. Ephemeral means “lasting a markedly brief time,” which is exactly
what they do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of the most desired of these plants are <b>Wild Leeks, or Ramps</b> (<i>Allium tricoccum</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /><img height="162" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=55651e6c58&view=fimg&th=1549b00b8cd87012&attid=0.3&disp=emb&realattid=ii_io1hrm333_1549aebf5318ccc2&attbid=ANGjdJ82bkV6JracQtq3f8ib-ZyxFxd_cPk6Xhlhr_ZSuR1JiyFMmvhwab-KdeHH4rbIlHYnNFehXuau-SfEnke4gjQWxPAqGEwCkn4ffucnfxqcLMzJs1gaLUc2NQc&sz=w432-h324&ats=1462889398822&rm=1549b00b8cd87012&zw&atsh=1" width="216" /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Recently,
interest in this wild edible has led to concerns they are being overharvested. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://farmingthewoods.com/2012/02/18/are-ramps-being-overharvested/&source=gmail&ust=1462975798829000&usg=AFQjCNHeBd9opfGEdEBqWp9oa0cLqwEQxw" href="https://farmingthewoods.com/2012/02/18/are-ramps-being-overharvested/" target="_blank">We
wrote an article for the Farming the Woods blog about the issue, which you can
read here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">If
you want to try your hand at cultivating ramps, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w1Cs3YsjxfxCW7AycutR-jOEdBb1Kmu">these videos from the ExtensionForest Farming site will help you get started.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As
you roam the woods, keep an eye out for ephemerals, which are some of the most
unique and beautiful plants in the forest. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.thenewperennialist.com/sleeping-beauties-in-search-of-spring-ephemerals/&source=gmail&ust=1462975798830000&usg=AFQjCNHNHRHdH2GXyxDZKmX0QO9gau9_Dw" href="http://www.thenewperennialist.com/sleeping-beauties-in-search-of-spring-ephemerals/" target="_blank">Here
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mushrooms are starting to pop at the farm! We
had the first of our Cold Weather Shiitake emerge in the past few weeks. These
mushrooms are adapted to the “swing” seasons and fruit in response to the
dramatically changing temperatures in spring and fall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">See
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://mushroomingtogether.blogspot.com/2012/04/cold-weather-shiitake-and-magic.html&source=gmail&ust=1462975798830000&usg=AFQjCNEW2cLi7YluV5arZbdWPzkOfaoSxw" href="http://mushroomingtogether.blogspot.com/2012/04/cold-weather-shiitake-and-magic.html" target="_blank">this
article from Field and Forest Product</a>s for more information on these
beautiful shrooms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">For
those in the Finger Lakes Region, consider <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://csa.wellspringforestfarm.com&source=gmail&ust=1462975798830000&usg=AFQjCNHevQ12Lwpvk1EWVW-hknUZ9tRE9Q" href="http://csa.wellspringforestfarm.com/" target="_blank">joining our 2016 CSA</a> to receive
a half or full pound of fresh mushrooms each week from mid June - mid
September. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We
grow shiitake, oyster, and lions mane on logs from sustainably managed forests
and oysters on organic straw in our greenhouse. We forage and offer
chanterelles, chicken-of-the woods, and other wild mushrooms in medley shares
as available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The
CSA runs from the second week in June through the second week in September, for
a total of 14 weeks. <span> </span>You can
choose SHIITAKE ONLY or the MUSHROOM MEDLY as options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">$112
for a half pound ($8/week)</span></div>
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(alongside <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.plowbreakfarm.com/&source=gmail&ust=1462975798830000&usg=AFQjCNECy5-DZTiSGepvlKx6Xc3uGL6Bfw" href="http://www.plowbreakfarm.com/" target="_blank">Plowbreak Farm CSA</a> pick-up)
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month, we want to introduce you to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.WellspringForestFarm.com&source=gmail&ust=1462975798830000&usg=AFQjCNHo5MrykBwE9L-koebjVfz9U6od0w" href="http://www.wellspringforestfarm.com/" target="_blank">Wellspring
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<span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Not so long ago, a vast mosaic of forests and trees
covered the eastern and Midwestern US. These were old forests that stood the
test of time.</span></span></div>
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native first nations peoples tended the land for hundreds and in some places
thousands of years. When European settlers and conquerors arrived, they enacted
as a wholesale destruction of forests, and of culture. </span></span></div>
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forest has begun to return. Yet in our modern management, we still possess a
mind of degeneration, and we are collectively denuding the forest back as has
been done before. In agriculture, forestland is often considered worthless.</span></span></div>
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are two people (Steve & Elizabeth Gabriel) who steward 10-acres land as a
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a series of
guides hikes in heritage forests of the Finger Lakes </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">These walks bring participants to some of the
more majestic forests of the finger lakes. Local ecologists & foresters
will be our guides as we learn to read the language of the forest and discuss
how to apply our observations to management. After the hike we will gather at a
nearby pub or coffee shop and continue the conversation. </span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">In this hands-on workshop with Steve, we explore
fungal ecology and the ways we can partner with fungi to help solve global
problems like ecosystem remediation, food access and distribution, and a range
of health issues. </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">evelop the confidence and
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steward of the month is Finger Lakes Forester Mike DeMunn. Mike has led a long
career as a caretaker for the woods. He has been practicing ecological forestry
for three decades and has worked for the U.S. Forest Service, National Park
Service and the Soil and Water District, and for industry as head forester for
a large lumber company.</span></div>
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(Iroquois) tribe and his Seneca Hawk Clan Mother <i>Da’ Ha’ da’ nyah</i> meaning “he protects the forest.” His
upbringing in a native culture, coupled with his vast experience in the
industry working in both private and public sectors, gives Mike a unique and
valuable perspective on forest ecology and management.<span> </span></span></div>
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the woods. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DUruWDeLEhmY%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&source=gmail&ust=1462975798831000&usg=AFQjCNHfjMXozAxl6fSQtRzJGVA1AFnYsw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UruWDeLEhmY&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">His
final project included an audio piece featuring Mike’s perspective, listen to
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is not only an accomplished forester, but also artist and author o two
children’s books, “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.amazon.com/Places-Power-Michael-Demunn/dp/1883220645&source=gmail&ust=1462975798831000&usg=AFQjCNH_G-dqe1Mur5fWgP9oxwORGUtcNw" href="http://www.amazon.com/Places-Power-Michael-Demunn/dp/1883220645" target="_blank">Places
of Power</a>” and “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Good-Chant-Praise-Nature/dp/0590350102&source=gmail&ust=1462975798831000&usg=AFQjCNESCWFKER1VPodUe9tTMkyg67iJgw" href="http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Good-Chant-Praise-Nature/dp/0590350102" target="_blank">The
Earth is Good</a>.” Both his painting and writing evokes a contagious
passionate love and reverence for the natural world.</span></div>
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woods is a special moment. His wisdom flows as he teaches science, history,
culture, and technical skills all at once. </span></div>
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Course</b> in August. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/&source=gmail&ust=1462975798831000&usg=AFQjCNG32yIemMztEU6iqyvsOqG1S8iOcw" href="http://events.wellspringforestfarm.com/" target="_blank">LEARN
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<span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">"Say
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Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-26622954307986059742016-04-09T12:07:00.003-07:002016-04-09T12:10:04.963-07:00Join our 2016 CSA for fresh, weekly mushrooms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>FRESH MUSHROOM CSA</b><br />
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Wellspring Forest Farm & School<br />
Mecklenburg, NY<br />
<a href="http://www.wellspringforestfarm.com/">www.WellspringForestFarm.com</a><br />
607 - 342 - 2825<br />
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Join our 2016 CSA and receive a half or full pound of fresh mushrooms each week from mid June - mid September. We grow mushrooms on the farm and forage nearby woodlands to bring our members a taste of the rich color, flavor, and health benefits mushrooms offer.<br />
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Mushrooms are a delicious and incredibly nutritious food & medicine. We grow shiitake, oyster, and lions mane on logs from sustainably managed forests and oyster on organic straw in our greenhouse.<br />
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CSA participants can enjoy log-grown shiitake, oyster, lions mane,
red wine cap, chanterelles, and chicken-of-the woods in their share.<br />
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WATCH A SHORT VIDEO ABOUT OUR MUSHROOMS:<br />
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<b>Some facts about mushrooms:</b><br />
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- They are known to reduce cholesterol, promote immune system health, and fight cancer cell growth<br />
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- The protein structure of mushrooms is very similar to animal proteins, making them a great source for vegetarians and vegans, who often lack this type of protein in their diets<br />
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- Mushrooms are one of the best sources of Vitamin D in the human diet. Drying mushrooms in the sun for 5+ hrs can increase their vitamin D content by 300%! Drying your own mushrooms is easy. (we'll tell you how)<br />
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<b>Two share options: </b><br />
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SHIITAKE ONLY<br />
fresh, log grown shiitake each week. <br />
MUSHROOM MEDLEY<br />
mostly shiitake, mixed with other mushrooms when available <br />
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The CSA runs from the<b> second week in June through the second week in September</b>, for a total of 14 weeks. <br />
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$112 for a half pound ($8/week) <br />
$200 for a full pound ($14/week, 10% discount)<br />
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Shareholders also receive a weekly recipe and update from the farm and discounts on <a href="http://stevegabrielfarmer.wix.com/wellspringforestfarm#!classes/yx2oa">educational workshops we offer</a>. <br />
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<b>Thursdays</b> at the Westy Bar in Ithaca (alongside <a href="http://www.plowbreakfarm.com/">Plowbreak Farm CSA</a> pick-up) from 5 - 7pm <br />
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<b>Fridays</b> at <a href="http://www.sweetlandfarm.org/">Sweetland Farm CSA</a> pick-up in Trumansburg from 1 - 8pm<br />
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<b>Fridays</b> at <a href="http://stevegabrielfarmer.wix.com/wellspringforestfarm#!contact/c21dx">our farm in Mecklenburg</a> off Buck Hill Rd South.<br />
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If you have questions please email <a href="mailto:farmers@wellspringforestfarm.com">farmers@wellspringforestfarm.com</a> or call Steve or Elizabeth at 607 342 2825.<br />
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MECKLENBURG, NY - One of the oldest forms of forest farming comes in the tapping of tree sap for delicious and nutritious products that arrive as the seasons change (thaw) from winter to spring. <br />
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Tree saps have long been viewed as a spring tonic by many cultures around the globe. Tree saps are loaded with minerals, nutrients, enzymes, antioxidants, phenolic compounds, and more. <br />
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In Korea specifically, there is a long history of sap consumption and most comes from the Acer mono, a maple which is called <i>gorosoe</i>, meaning “the tree that is good for the bones” in Korean. This is likely due to the high mineral content in sap, most notably calcium, magnesium, and potassium.<br />
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There are even places in Korea where people can take weekend retreats, visiting the mountains and consuming as much as 5 gallons of sap per day while sitting on heated floors with conditions similar to a sauna. The idea is to detox the bad stuff and unclog the body from a long winter. In Korean markets, Maple Sap usually sells for $5 – $10/gallon. (See this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/world/asia/06maple.html?_r=1">2009 New York Times article</a> on the topic)<br />
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Recently in North America, the so-called “functional beverage” industry has taken off, in part because consumer are becoming more aware of the health problems associated with sugary sodas and drinks, and are seeking alternatives. Just a few years ago, no one had heard of coconut water, but now its a mainstay at stores around the continent. Maple water, which is minimally processed and packaged, is now beginning to show up on the shelves with names like “sweet water” and “vertical water.” The purity of the product, along with it being hyper-local and sustainable to produce, separates it from coconut and vitamin waters commonly available on the market today.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wellspringforestfarm.com/">Wellspring Forest Farm & School</a> is excited to announce the availability of Maple Water from our forest to consumers in the Finger Lakes region as we enter March, the traditional month where sap flows the most in New York.<br />
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-- Visit the farm for our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/234672330198156/">Maple Weekend & Farmers Marke</a>t event in partnership with the <a href="http://www.nysmaple.com/">NYS Maple Producers Association</a> on <i><b>March 19th and 20.</b></i> We will have sap to try and bottled sap for sale! Other activities include live music, wood-fired pizzas, a farmers market on Saturday, and workshops on making maple syrup and cultivating mushrooms on Sunday. See our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/234672330198156/">facebook event page</a> for more info.<br />
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And, if you needed more reasons to try it, here are the <b>top 5 reasons to drink maple water</b>:<br />
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<b>1. Its the cleanest water you will ever drink.</b> Maple water is filtered through the cellular tissue of a tree, which acts like a big water filter. It comes out essentially sterile and we’ve worked with Cornell Food Safety to determine the process to keep it clean, crisp, and refreshing.<br />
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<b>2. It is loaded with vitamins and minerals. </b>Several studies from Korea have cited the potential benefits of maple sap consumption in lab settings for treating osteoporosis, hypertension, and even curing hangovers. Most analysis has been done on the basic content of the maple sap, which has over 50 vitamins and minerals, and also a number of probiotics similar to those found in yogurts and other dairy products.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiI4m-hqW9QGgACukspFXecIjMV0XTLckRvnRgjgs6MFySJgbEleoH5zZgsO0jzbImMYsEiIl51zs8tQQJCOhTdfp8NHGCw7oIAUxDABrtQwOpGAmOUKQmyLXrSxhLpw5Tt90_dyfR1I/s1600/SteveSapMug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiI4m-hqW9QGgACukspFXecIjMV0XTLckRvnRgjgs6MFySJgbEleoH5zZgsO0jzbImMYsEiIl51zs8tQQJCOhTdfp8NHGCw7oIAUxDABrtQwOpGAmOUKQmyLXrSxhLpw5Tt90_dyfR1I/s320/SteveSapMug.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>3. It tastes amazing! </b>The flavor is subtly sweet with hints of vanilla, almond, and caramel. Sap can be drank straight or used in cooking or to make tea or coffee.<br />
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<b>4. It connects you to the winter-spring thaw. </b>The season for sap flow is a short window between late January and into March. The sap content, taste, and volume varies each week, as winter changes to spring. The flow of sap is nature’s thermometer, telling a story of one of the most dynamic times of the year.<br />
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<b>5. It supports sustainable forest farming and farmers. </b>We have been tapping trees for over a decade and continually strive to use the latest technology and methods to ensure tree health as we harvest this amazing tonic. Supporting farmers buy purchasing local sap and syrup means you are helping farmers utilize their woods, which means that forests are likely to be kept and not cut. <br />
<br />Steve Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09103272799246675733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-32276008383288476692016-01-19T18:03:00.000-08:002016-02-02T03:54:59.181-08:00Seeking applicants for 2016 Apprenticeship<style>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wellspring Forest Farm is seeking part-time apprentices for
our agroforestry farm in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Positions ideally
run from June 1 to Oct 1 (end dates are flexible) and require a commitment of </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">2 full days</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">of work on farm each week, </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">a share in daily farm chores</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and attendance at orientation </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">June 6 -8</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Apprentices can camp onsite
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This 4-month apprenticeship offers individuals an
opportunity for hands-on learning and skill building at an innovate and unique forest farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We engage in community education and produce of a range of products including mushrooms, maple syrup, duck eggs, pasture lamb, and small fruits including elderberry and Paw Paw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our fundamental farm goal is to demonstrate methods for ecosystem restoration that also produce food, medicine, and materials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your involvement in this
working farm will broaden your understanding of forest farming, agroforestry,
permaculture and forest gardening and provide training in both the technical and business skills required to run a small farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apprentices will engage in the following farm systems and topics:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Mushroom cultivation: </b>Learn to manage a 1,000 log shiitake operation in the woods and oysters grown on straw for commercial markets, along with various stump and woodchip bed inoculations. Develop an understanding of harvest timing, grading and packing for markets, delivery and budget management aspects of the enterprise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sheep: </b>Help rotate our flock of sheep on pasture in open field, tree planted, and woodland grazing systems. Learn grass ecology and methods for supporting optimal health. Understand proper fencing techniques and help develop a new silvopasture (woodland grazing) system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Ducks: </b>Learn to use ducks as a fertility and pest control tool, rotating them through various system including mushroom yard, sheep pasture, gardens, and swale systems. Deliver eggs and learn invoicing and record keeping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Water capture and storage: </b>Design, installation, maintenance of productive water systems including ponds, swales, and stream buffers. Plant and maintain elderberry and paw paw crops using tubes and cover cropping, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apprentices are expected to provide their own tent, (though
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transportation to and from the farm. They take part in shared farm chores including composting food and humanure properly, feeding animals, and
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a $30/week fee to participate in this high quality educational program. This fee helps us cover our costs and offer personalized mentoring to our apprentices. We also provide a local vegetable CSA share, garden space, and pay for your attendance to</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> three
quality agroforestry trainings offered during the season. ($1225 value)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://blogs.cornell.edu/mushrooms/2016/01/12/learn-to-grow-mushrooms-at-11th-annual-camp-mushroom/">Cornell University’s Camp Mushroom - June 3 & 4</a></span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/p/school.html">Forestry / Agroforestry Short Course </a></span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/p/school.html">Fungi Cultivation & Foraging Short Course </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Wellspring Forest Farm is a
10-acre agroforestry farm.</span> Steve and Elizabeth Gabriel work part-time on
farm, and will both provide
mentoring and teaching during the days of the Apprenticeship program. Steve is
an Extension Educator with <a href="http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/">Cornell Small Farms Program</a> and co-author of <a href="http://www.farmingthewoods.com/"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farming the Woods</span></u></a>. Elizabeth Gabriel is
Executive Director of the <a href="http://groundswellcenter.org/">Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming</a> and an
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The farm is featured in the film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrGapj5_Sbs">INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective</a>, as well as in numerous <a href="http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/p/media.html">articles and audio podcasts</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: serif;">We are</span> located in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mecklenburg,+NY/@42.4583227,-76.7278907,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89d0893ffe9b9cd9:0x620ab29349d44e93">Mecklenburg, NY</a>, 12 miles from Ithaca, 8
from Trumansburg and 12 miles from Watkins Glen. We share a driveway and a
2-acre pond with 4 friendly neighbors. Apprentices will likely want to have
their own car for personal transportation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To apply, send a cover letter and resume to: <a href="mailto:farmers@wellspringforestfarm.com">farmers@wellspringforestfarm.com</a> with “2016 Apprenticeship” in the subject line. </span><br />
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amazing ability of shiitake mushrooms to accumulate Vitamin D</span></i></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8Ehm5TrpDmOqOi3CLckBXxCFfX-MSZepIsgOKjGSJscxcg91pBPUveF2THIx5uVFocJxBIO2Y8bE9Js3YEhg12LkjgiLt9l8ILa7psh3rQTdbHcvSN1J8dLw5q9U5wqLttfGs2viC8o/s1600/DSCN1867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8Ehm5TrpDmOqOi3CLckBXxCFfX-MSZepIsgOKjGSJscxcg91pBPUveF2THIx5uVFocJxBIO2Y8bE9Js3YEhg12LkjgiLt9l8ILa7psh3rQTdbHcvSN1J8dLw5q9U5wqLttfGs2viC8o/s320/DSCN1867.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">There is a certain satisfaction in putting food
by, a simple task that one never truly appreciates until the deep and dark days
of winter, when through stored food one can reconnect to the vibrancy life
takes on in the summer months. It feels deeply human to sense the comfort a
stored harvest brings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Our farm shelves are stocked with canned soups,
tomatoes, salsa, and the freezer jammed full of lamb, pawpaw pulp, and berries.
And perhaps most abundant of all are the jars of mushrooms from the season,
both specimens of lions mane, oyster, and shiitake we grew this year, as well
as hunks of wild-harvested chaga and dried reishi, waiting for hot winter tea
brews on the wood stove to awaken their potent medicinal compounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">While the stored harvest brings a sense of
security and abundance, in many cases processing foods means a drop in
nutritional or medicinal value. As we dehydrate, can, and freeze, we can do our
best to preserve the potential of food, but inevitably some of the value with
fresh and live foods is lost. Curiously, with mushrooms, one could argue that
dried product is not nutritionally inferior compared to the fresh, but simply
different.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Vitamin D</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Vitamin D is hard to find in food, yet it plays
a critical role in overall health. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Specifically, the vitamin is converted in the liver
and kidneys and in its active form supports maintaining blood levels of
phosphorus and calcium while also promoting bone mineralization
and absorption of calcium. It is also linked to supporting a
healthy immune system and regulation of cell differentiation and growth.
Common sources of vitamin D include sunlight, oil-rich fish, and some dairy
products, through many are fortified with D. <span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Fortified foods provide most of the vitamin D in the American diet.
Almost all of the U.S. milk supply is voluntarily fortified with 100 IU/cup.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Deficiency
in Vitamin D</span> is linked to rickets in children and osteomalacia in
adults. Those at risk for deficiency include infants who are
exclusively breast fed, seniors, and people with limited sun exposure.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn1" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[i]</span></span></a> Vitamin
D deficiency is a very common occurrence among cancer patients.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn2" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[ii]</span></span></a><u style="text-underline: #0000E9;"><span style="color: #0000e9;"> </span></u><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">There are varying perspectives on the relationship of depression and
vitamin D, a topic that needs more investigation.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn3" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[iii]</span></span></a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Vitamin D & Mushrooms</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Despite popular assumption that mushroom want to be grown in dark,
dank caves underground, they actually need light to fully develop fruiting
bodies. Mushrooms starved of the necessary UV light frequencies will appear
shrunken or pale in color. Even more remarkable is that mushrooms can actually synthesize
Vitamin D when exposed to UV light, whether natural or synthetic. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Vitamin D is actually not really a
vitamin, it’s a hormone that the sun stimulates organisms (i.e. your body and
mushrooms) to produce.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">One study from Penn State<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn4" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[iv]</span></span></a> looked at
the use of pulsed UV light to increase vitamin D content in button, crimini,
oyster, and shiitake. The results of this study demonstrated that, "after
a very short exposure time of about 1 sec (system generates 3 pulses per
second) the Vitamin D2 content of these mushroom varieties can be increased
from very little to upwards of <b>800% DV/serving</b>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Paul Stamets further explored this relationship and also compared
synthetic UV with natural sunlight.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn5" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[v]</span></span></a> While UV
lamps result in more overall Vitamin D conversation in mushrooms, natural
light, as he notes, is "<span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">a convenient
source…whereas setting up a UVB light chamber is not." Natural sunlight
still results more than a 400% increase in D; Stamets found that sun dried
shiitake went from 100 IU/100 grams to nearly 46,000 IU/100 grams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">This rate is plenty for
normal consumption, as recommendations from the Institute of Medicine encourage
a dose of 600 </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">IU per day for people up to age 70, and 800 IU for
those over 70.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn6" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[vi]</span></span></a> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">With winter coming, sunlight is at a premium. In
many parts of the US, especially the northeast, its impossible to naturally
produce vitamin D from the sun during winter because the sun does not get high
enough in the sky for ultraviolet B (UVB) rays to penetrate earth’s atmosphere.
This phenonemom is known as the “Vitamin D” Winter.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn7" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[vii]</span></span></a>
People living higher than the latitude of 37 degrees are at a greater risk of
developing a deficiency, which essentially equates to half of the continental
US.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn8" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[viii]</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">During this time, we rely on the stores of vitamin
D in our system to meet this need. Vitamin D can last in fat tissue for </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">approximately two months, and when
consumed via supplement (including mushrooms) circulates in the blood for about
24 hours, According to a 2010 journal article published by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pediatric Nephrology<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn9" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[ix]</span></span></a></i>.
Another study, published in a 2008 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn10" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[x]</span></span></a></i>,
found that patients given a single dose of 100,000 international units of
cholecalciferol, a form of vitamin D, had elevated levels of calcidiol in their
blood for 84 days on average. This suggests that vitamin D can stay in the
blood longer than 84 days, though the exact maximum length of time is not known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Is reasonable,
then, to calculate that one might be able to enjoy the Vitamin D from sunlight
for a few months into winter, but as we enter the new year, our bodies are
starved for more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this
time, the consumption of just 1 oz of mushrooms could potentially feed us
with </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">12,880 IU, or 21 days worth of Vitamin D. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Sun dried mushrooms are one of the more readily
available forms of Vitamin D that we can easily cultivate in the forests of the
United States. Stamet’s measurements further indicate that the Vitamin D in
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">In the end, we can currently piece together this
story, drawing from studies that look at Vitamin D, mushroom accumulation, and
the effects of Vitamin D supplements in the body. (see references below) More
research is needed to better understand this process. But one thing is clear,
Vitamin D is rare in foods and a critical part of our diet, and UVB-exposed
mushrooms like shiitake can offer a significant quantity of D naturally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Our farm is part of a growing agricultural sector producing log-grown
mushrooms. While we also grow oysters and some others indoors, it is out in the
woods where we marvel in the process where inoculated logs utilize the natural
conditions of the forest to grow and produce mushrooms. Log-grown mushrooms
offer this advantage over their indoor counterparts; once logs are inoculated
they require no energy inputs other than human labor to manage. Indoor
cultivation requires constant monitoring and often inputs to regulate ideal
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It’s with this natural, low-energy production system that we first
learned about solar dehydration. It’s remarkable simple – mushrooms are place
“gills up” on stainless screens with holes in them and the covered with a
screen to keep them sanitary. We then leave them in sunlight for at least 5
hours, where the sun dries them out while engaging the vitamin D conversion in
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Other benefits of this product include an intensification of the
shiitake flavor, known as “umami” <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn11" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[xi]</span></span></a>, which in
Japanese means a, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">"pleasant
savory taste." For many years, there were only four tastes widely
recognized to be detected by the human tongue; sweet, sour, salty, bitter. This
fifth flavor has become all the rage in recent years by chefs, fueled by a
renaissance in the good food movement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">All types of
mushrooms contain gluatmates<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn12" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[xii]</span></span></a>, the
compounds which produce this flavor, but shiitake are notable as having
especially high concentrations of these amino acids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another compound, known as nucleotides<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8123459765399527189#_edn13" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[xiii]</span></span></a>,
are also highly present in shiitake and the two together produce a powerful
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powder, both of which are easy to use in a wide variety of recipes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">For the dried mushroom caps, simple rehydrate for
20 – 30 minutes in water (or even red wine) and then </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">dice and add to noodle dishes, stir-fry,
or any recipe calling for mushrooms. You can also add directly to soups, as
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[i]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> "Vitamin D Deficiency: <a href="http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-website?new=true">Symptoms</a>,
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sun Dried Shiitake Mushrooms : </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ou<span style="font-family: inherit;">r mush<span style="font-family: inherit;">rooms are <span style="font-family: inherit;">dehydrated in the sun, w<span style="font-family: inherit;">hich naturally in<span style="font-family: inherit;">creases the Vitamin D content of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.79px;">mushrooms and con</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.79px;">centrat</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">es the<span style="font-family: inherit;">ir delicious flavo<span style="font-family: inherit;">r. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>$6 for 1 oz</b> (about 1/<span style="font-family: inherit;">2 pound <span style="font-family: inherit;">when rehydrated<span style="font-family: inherit;">). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Maple Syrup: </span><span style="color: #38761d;">The perfect </span>sweet treat to add to your menu. Glaze your turkey with maple prior to cooking or dribble a bit on your locally grown roasted root vegetables just a few minutes before they come out of the oven and you'll release the delicate flavors of our dark maple syrup. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.79px;"><i>Available in 2oz ($5) and 8oz bottles ($12).</i></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028659781060455230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123459765399527189.post-30831613386277342392015-10-05T15:27:00.000-07:002015-10-05T15:27:05.376-07:00On seasonal cycles, paw paws, and one year of Farming the Woods<i>(by Steve Gabriel. Reposted from our sister site, <a href="http://farmingthewoods.com/2015/10/05/on-seasonal-cycles-paw-paws-and-one-year-of-farming-the-woods/">Farming the Woods</a>. If some links don't work properly, please visit the original post at that site)</i><br />
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It’s been a while since a post here, late May to be precise when we discussed the importance of <a href="http://farmingthewoods.com/2015/05/31/learning-from-our-forest-elders-audio-video/" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">learning from our forest elders</a>. This post is a bit more personal than previous ones, except perhaps the one where we honored the memory of student <a href="http://farmingthewoods.com/2013/05/28/thank-you-chris-dennis/" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Dennis and his support of our book’s early efforts</a>, back in 2013.</div>
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Within the context of the forest we experience a different sense of time. The decisions of people before us for hundreds of years play themselves out in the forests we experience today. In the same vein, we have the opportunity to set the future course of how forests are stewarded (or not), and what abundance is found there (or not).</div>
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What I find today, walking in most woods, are the stories of past neglect and abuse of this precious resource. For the past several hundred years, the name of the game has been take the best, and leave the rest. The forest is a genetic library, where the evolution of species in their quest to adapt to site and climactic conditions has been working for thousands of years to adapt. We have basically spent the last two hundred years checking out all the best “books.” The forests we see today are only a glimpse of what could be.</div>
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This is one side of the story. Yet, in small patches of woods all over the eastern forest, a vision for something different is present. I see it in the <a href="http://blogs.cornell.edu/mushrooms/nutgrove/" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">MacDaniels Nut Grove</a>, where I get to walk students through 90 year old nut forest, planted by a passionate professor in the 1920s. I visit the woods Mike Demunn has managed for decades, where tall towering trees remind me that taking the best is a choice, not a mandate. And each year I visit the Cornell Paw Paw orchard, where researchers planted hundreds of trees in 1999 and so we can enjoy this ironically exotic native fruit it all its glory.</div>
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<a href="https://forestfarmingbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/04-03_pawpawfruit_steve.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="04-03_PawPawfruit_Steve" class="alignleft wp-image-851 size-thumbnail" height="113" src="https://forestfarmingbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/04-03_pawpawfruit_steve.jpg?w=150&h=113" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; width: auto;" width="150" /></a>Yesterday I ate my first paw paw of 2015. The sensation was first one of childlike wonder and excitement, not like what I feel when I taste the first run of maple sap or pluck the first shiitake mushroom from a log on our farm. Following this moment of pure joy are memories of the past years, and the connection to a seasonal cycle, where I connect to the larger part of nature, marking moments in time with plants, animals, and fungi as they emerge from dormancy, grow, store energy, and reproduce.</div>
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These seasonal cycles are incredible powerful in grounding me to time and place. And each season it gets deeper. I’ve now consciously witnessed the leaves turn color and fall to the ground for 20+ years. I’ve now tapped trees and welcomed the slow thaw of the forest for over 10 years. I’ve now inoculated and harvested mushrooms from the woods for 6 years. And I’ve gleefully plucked and gorged myself on paw paws for the last 4 years.</div>
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And while these things offer me a sense of place, and some sense of consistency as a member of the natural world, each year is also, of course, different and unique. Last year at this time as I cut the first paw paw fruit,<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Farming the Woods</em> had just been released into the public eye. The year before that, Ken and I were spending every spare moment writing away and visiting case study sites. And this year, I am reviewing the big picture of my life, and what it all means, amidst supporting my wife, who was <a href="https://coffeewithcollette.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/practice/"><span style="color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; transition-delay: initial; transition-duration: 0.18s; transition-timing-function: ease-out;">diagnosed with Colon cancer in July</span></span>.</a></div>
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The fear, grief, and uncertainty of the future has put me in a completely new frame of mind. For one, the important things in life – family, friends, and place – have been dramatically sharpened into focus. I’ve also had to adapt in news ways to be ready and willing to change plans and change course at a moments notice. And I witness in awe of the lady I love, and her ability and strength to fight and process her experience of such a terrible disease.</div>
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The good news is that the cancer appears very treatable at this point. All of this will be far behind us by the next paw paw harvest. It should even be past us by the 2016 sugaring season. And, as I continue to build my relationship to my partner, my world, and these amazing forest cycles, I also am finding that i have some incredible friends in the forest who are along for the ride.</div>
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<a href="https://forestfarmingbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/mushroom-chart-large.png" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="mushroom-chart-LARGE" class="aligncenter wp-image-852 size-full" src="https://forestfarmingbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/mushroom-chart-large.png?w=461" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 5px; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; width: auto;" /></a>I knew that mushrooms are not just food but medicine – powerful medicine. Various compounds in shiitake, oyster, lions mane, maitake, reishi and turkey tail all support immune system health, critical in the wake of chemotherapy. Maitake in particular <a href="http://doctormurray.com/maitake-extract-produces-beneficial-effects-on-the-immune-system-in-patients-with-bone-marrow-failure/" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">helps with keeping white blood cells healthy</a>, <a href="http://www.foursigmafoods.com/lions-mane-nutrients-for-your-nerves" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">while lions mane keeps the nervous system active and strong</a>. Since chemo is a treatment which attacks the body, killing short lived cells and thus messing with normal function, it’s critical for mushrooms to be part of the healing process. Not just any mushrooms, but specific ones, in specific forms. To be more precise, both modern medicine research and traditional chances medicine use <a href="https://www.jhsnp.com/about-mushrooms/" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">hot water extracts of mushrooms as the delivery method for the medicinal benefits</a>. This process extracts the powerful polysaccharides and other compounds which do much of the critical work of healing.</div>
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I was surprised to find out that most mushroom medicines out on the market are simply made from the mycelium of the mushroom that is dehydrated and then powered. This is not the form that research and traditional medicine sees value in. In fact, the general consensus is that one needs to both harvest a fruiting body, and use a hot water extract, in order to access the medicine. Simply eating fresh mushrooms won’t do it. Of course, eating fresh mushrooms and even the mycelium is beneficial for host of other reasons. There are various effects of the various methods of consuming mushrooms and their compounds. But in the case of treatment for an extreme condition such as cancer, its important to do it the right way. We were surprised at how buried this concept is in the information out there, and that only one company, <a href="http://mushroomscience.com/about/" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">MushroomScience</a>, offers pills and tincture that is both harvest from the fruiting bodies of log-grown mushrooms, but also does the heat extraction in their preparations.</div>
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<a href="https://forestfarmingbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/natures-sunshine-paw-paw-cell-reg-nspp.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="natures-sunshine-paw-paw-cell-reg-nspp" class="alignright wp-image-853 size-thumbnail" height="150" src="https://forestfarmingbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/natures-sunshine-paw-paw-cell-reg-nspp.jpg?w=150&h=150" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; width: auto;" width="150" /></a>The paw paw, too, has some absolutely <a href="http://www.pawpaws.net/Pawpaw_Scientific_Paper.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">remarkable cancer medicine</a>. Paw paw contains acetogenins, which modulate the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in cancer cells. This essentially reduces the growth of blood vessel which can nourish the growth of these cells. The compound also slows the growth of certain cancer cells that are resistant to some common chemotherapy drugs. An extract from the twigs is mostly commonly used in medicine.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My wife has cancer, and the very forest friends I’ve been getting to know over the past few years are stepping up to help.</strong></div>
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Growing up, I always knew that I wanted to spend as much time in the woods as possible. Now, as a farmer and educator, I aim to share what I know and get as many people as possible growing these powerful allies in their woods and gardens. The potential of partnering with the forest, being both steward, producer, and consumer while supporting an abundance and diversity of forest products for future generations is what gets me up in the morning. And I am confident that as long as I partner with the forest in this way, the benefits will continue stacking up.</div>
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As I think back on our one year anniversary of publishing <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Farming the Woods</em>, I am reminded that we are all continually learning. As we walk down the road of seeing the forest for more than just the trees, the good news keeps piling up. And I know that there is even more to the story, more to learn and glean from the gifts of the forest. Some of these offerings are basic, from the incredible nutrition and sustenance of the foods to the healing properties they unleash, while some are more far-flung, such as the potential to use fungi in the <a href="http://www.pe.com/articles/percent-782381-batteries-lithium.html" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">production of cheaper, biodegradable batteries</a> to their ability <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/fungi-plastic-chemicals-bpa.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">decompose plastic </a>and <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/148403/can_oil-eating_mushrooms_clean_up_after_a_spill" style="border: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">clean up toxic waterways</a>.</div>
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This one year anniversary marks the re-start of regular blog posts to the<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Farming the Woods</em> website. Read, enjoy, and share. Be in touch if you want us to cover a certain topic. And stay tuned for more exciting developments from the woods.</div>
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