From Forests to Table
Connecting Southeastern Forests to Local/Regional Food Systems
The USDA KYF2 Outreach Committee, USDA Forest Service in Region 8, and the National Agroforestry Center hosted a one hour webinar that included:
- an overview of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food program
- five case studies demonstrating the "forest to table" concept
- Frenchburg (KY) Job Corps Center gardening: Mike McCorquodale
- SRS Research on ramps & other forest farming: Jim Chamberlain
- National Forest food harvesting in Puerto Rico: Luis Rivera
- Mississippi Edible Forest (U&CF); Donna Yowell
- GreenSchools gardens (Conservation Education): Tamberly Conway
- an introduction to resources for federal agencies, their state partners, and the public
Contacts and links from the May 8th webinar can be downloaded in PDF format and includes a link to the archived webinar.
Authors
USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Outreach Committee
USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Outreach Committee
Date Published
May 2013
May 2013
Publisher
Urban Forestry South
Athens, GA (US)
Attachments and Links
Click here to download contacts & links as a PDF document.
Resource Format
Webinar
Webinar
Sub-Topics
Agroforestry
Agroforestry
State(s)/Region(s)
Southeast
Southeast
Keywords
Urban Agriculture, KYF2, Local Food
Urban Agriculture, KYF2, Local Food
Indexed By
UFS-drh
UFS-drh
