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Steve Gabriel, author of Farming the Woods (with Ken Mudge), is an ecologist, educator, and a forest farmer who has lived most of his life in the Finger Lakes region of New York. His personal mission is to reconnect people of all ages with the natural world and to provide the tools for good management of forests and other landscapes.
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- Farming The Woods
Steve Gabriel, author of Farming the Woods (with Ken Mudge),...
- Ken Mudge
Steve Gabriel is an ecologist, farmer, educator, and consultant living and stewarding lands at Wellspring Forest Farm in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. . Throughout his career, Steve has taught and consulted with thousands of farmers and land stewards on a wide range of agricultural practices including water management, agroforestry, silvopasture, and mushroom cu
Sep 23, 2014 · Steve Gabriel, author of Farming the Woods (with Ken Mudge), is an ecologist, educator, and a forest farmer who has lived most of his life in the Finger Lakes region of New York. His personal mission is to reconnect people of all ages with the natural world and to provide the tools for good management of forests and other landscapes.
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- Silvopasture can be established in existing woodlands, or trees can be brought into pasture. One of the nice aspects to silvopasture is that one can establish a system on almost any type of land.
- Animals are matched to land type and stage of succession. It’s critically important from the outset that the appropriate animal is chosen for a given site in order to reduce the potential of inflicting damage to the landscape.
- Animals are always on a rotation. This principle is implied above, and proper rotation of animals has been shown to have a myriad of benefits to a farm.
- Trees should match the soil type and microclimate and have multiple functions. One could arguably plant trees for the sole purpose of shading their livestock, but why not aim a bit higher?
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) was founded by Michael Burns, Steve Gabriel and Karryn Olson Ramanujan in 2005. Since the beginning FLPCI has been sustained and nutured by the support of our alumni and volunteers for whom we are grateful. The board of FLPCI would also like to thank our supporters whose donations help us teach ...
Jan 12, 2015 · In 2009, co-authors Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel met in the MacDaniels Nut Grove, Steve a student in Ken’s Practicum in Forest Farming class at Cornell University. As they began to work together, the two found that at the intersection of forest farming and permaculture was a new way to see the forest as more than just trees.
