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The presence of larger trees in yards and as street trees can add from 3% to 15% to home values
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Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith is the classic work on tree crops. First published in 1929, this highly readable blueprint for the development of high-yield tree crops proves that vast, untapped food sources can be harvested from common species of North American trees.
"Welcome to the Midwest Small Fruit and Grape Network. This is the source for information on management, commercial production, harvesting, and marketing of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, highbush blueberries, and grapes. "
"The North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX) is a network of individuals throughout the United States and Canada devoted to the discovery, cultivation and appreciation of superior varieties of fruits and nuts. "
The long term mission of the Consortium is envisioned to involve collaborative efforts at various sites across the region between small fruit growers and grower organizations, industries and service organizations allied with and/or serving small fruit growers, agricultural extension programs and research stations working together to enhance the development of the small fruit industries in the region.
Currants and gooseberries are hardy and easy to grow. A few plants will produce enough fruit for typical family use, and this fruit is much prized for making jellies and pies. Currants are especially outstanding for jellies, while gooseberries are excellent for pies or preserves. Gooseberry pie is a rare delicacy seldom found outside the home.
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Coppice-with-standards is a two-story woodland management system where among cut trees or "coppice" some trees are left to grow as larger size timber, called "standards".
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"Coppice" is the practice of cutting trees to the ground purposely to stimulate resprouting.
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The objective of sustainable forest management is
to harvest trees for wood products and manage the
understory for nontimber forest products (NTFP)
while continuously maintaining the health of the
forest for watershed protection, recreation, mast
production for wildlife and visual and ecological
benefits.
Cultivating shiitake mushrooms represents an
opportunity to utilize healthy low-grade and smalldiameter
trees thinned from woodlots as well as
healthy branch-wood cut from the tops of harvested
saw-timber trees. When the mushrooms are collected
and marketed, the result is a relatively short-term
payback for long-term management of wooded areas.
The berry left the United States in the early twentieth century, exploded in popularity as Romanians and Bulgarians bred it for higher yield and better taste, and came back to America as a sort of prodigal son, transformed and seeking redemption on home soil, in 1997.
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in the United States wood could sustainably supply "enormous amounts of energy, comparable to power production from hydroelectric [dams]
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In advanced wood combustion power plants, intense heat and carefully controlled conditions ensure that nearly all the carbon in the wood is broken down into flammable gases. Then the gases are ignited, burning much more cleanly than a typical smoky home fireplace.
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Ultra-efficient, ultra-clean advanced wood combustion technology and fast-growing “perpetual” fuel woods can, on the micro level, bring increased home heating security for landowners and, on the macro level, create a regenerative fuel source for electricity generation.
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Wood is often considered “carbon neutral
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Planting 1/4 of the present world crop lands to woody plants would result in enough extra carbon absorption to completely counteract the present carbon overload.
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The possibility that woody plants could be further domesticated and grown so as to provide food production equal to traditional cereal crops while simultaneously producing fuel wood promises enormous benefits.
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Breeders of the famous Dunstan chestnut and source for many native and non-native fruit, nut, and flowering trees and shrubs
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