Non-Timber
Forest Products
How to make every acre count from the forest
floor and beyond
• My Background
• Non-timber Forest Products
• NTFPs in the Landscape
• System Design
• Action Research
Presentation
Contents
• Dialogue
My Background
Agroforestry, permaculture, and non-timber forest
products
Non-timber Forest
Products
Making every acre count
Non-timber Forest Prodcuts (NTFPs)
Any biological product other than timber that can be
harvested from a forest or tree.
• Edibles
• Medicinals
• Forages/Fodder
• Decoratives
• Crafts
Types
NTFPs
• Specialty wood products
Agroforestry
Integrating NTFPs in the Landscape
Agroforestry
A land management system where trees and shrubs are
integrated into production for more diverse, productive,
profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems
• Diversification of farm products
• Over yielding
• Land regeneration and soil
protection
• Improved water quality and
quantity
• Wildlife habitat
Agroforestry
• Carbon Sequestration
Benefits
• Moderate effects of extreme weather
on crops and livestock
NTFPs in
Equals Agroforestry Practice
Existing Forest
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Forest Farming
Planted Forest
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Forest Gardening
Pasture
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Silvopasture
Crop system
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Alley Cropping
Creek side areas
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Riparian Buffers
Wind protection strips
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Windbreaks
Agroforestry
Forest Farming
Photo credit: Forest Farming eXtension
Agroforestry
Forest Gardening
Agroforestry
Silvopasture
Photo credit: Mark Shepard of Restoration Agriculture
Photo credit: Mark Shepard of Restoration Agriculture
Agroforestry
Riparian Buffers
Agroforestry
Alley Cropping
Agroforestry
Windbreaks
Permaculture
Designing agroforestry systems that mimic nature
Permaculture (permanent agriculture)
• Designing productive systems
that mimic nature
• Observe our biome and work with
nature
• A set of tenants that guide
decisions
• Earth Care
• People Care
• Fair Share
• Greater resilience, sustainability,
and abundance
Photo credit: Mark Shepard of Restoration Agriculture
Layers of the Forest
• Understand our land
• Understand the existing economic
system
• Design productive systems
• Learn what works in our region
How do we get
there?
NTFPs production, harvesting,
marketing, selling.
• Work together
• Make a profit
Community-based
Participatory
Action Research
How we make things happen
Action Research Beliefs
• All people accumulate, organize, and use complex
knowledge continuously everyday
• Only knowledge generated and tested through action is
credible
• Diverse opinions are valued and generate creativity
• Local knowledge and perspectives of participants are
combined with the researchers facilitation of the process,
and knowledge of the subject to address complex issues.
• Collectively define the interest
• Cogenerate knowledge
• Collaboratively develop a plan of
action
Action
Research
Process
NTFPs production, harvesting,
marketing, selling.
• Make things happen
• Evaluate results
An open invitation
If you are interested in this project, please fill out
a survey so we can include you and your thoughts
to shape the direction we take.
Resources
• Forest Farming
• eXtension http://www.extension.org/forest_farming
• youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/exforestfarming
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FarmingForests
• Pinterst http://www.pinterest.com/forestfarming/
• Twitter https://twitter.com/ForestFarming
• National Agroforestry Center http://nac.unl.edu/forestfarming.htm
• Silvopasture
• National Agroforestry Center http://nac.unl.edu/silvopasture.htm
• Savana Gardens Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Savanna-Gardens/290210664411298
• Restoration Agriculture http://www.forestag.com/book.html
• Forest Gardening
• Edible Forest Gardens http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/
• Windbreaks
• National Agroforestry Center http://nac.unl.edu/windbreaks.htm
• Riparian Buffers
• National Agroforestry Center http://nac.unl.edu/riparianforestbuffers.htm
• Trozzo Extension Pubs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/author/t/torozzo-katie-res.html
• What products do you think have the most
potential? Or what do you think could be grown
in this region?
• What are the assets that may help get this
started?
Dialogue
What do you all think?
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