Resource Category: Agroforestry

Learn the basics of riparian buffer installation and restoration, along with ways to engage your community members on the topic of effective riparian buffers and the importance of protecting local waterways.

Farming at Hilltop Urban Farm comes with intense wind pressures. To design an effective windbreak system, Pasa connected the farm with Paul Hanes Patterson, who designed a multi-layered windbreak system that works with the site’s topography and constraints.

Over the past 10 years, Swallowtail Forest Farm has transformed into a thriving, diversified orchard, with chestnut trees as an economic engine positioned to significantly shift the financials of this marginal ground. They have also become a training ground for the next generation of tree crop farmers in Pennsylvania and a model for what’s possible.

Pittsburgher Highland Farm in western Pennsylvania is implementing a silvopasture and riparian buffer project with mentorship through Pasa Sustainable Agriculture’s Agroforestry Training Program. The farm will plant hundreds of trees and shrubs to shade livestock, improve pasture health, stabilize streambanks, and protect water quality while creating a demonstration site for agroforestry practices.

This agroforestry case study highlights a nonprofit farm that worked with Pasa to design an alley cropping site plan that would address natural resource concerns on their land.

This agroforestry case study highlights an urban farm that worked with Pasa and Interlace Commons to design an alley cropping site plan that would maximize space in their existing orchard.

This agroforestry case study highlights a draft-horse powered diversified vegetable farm that worked with Pasa and Interlace Commons to design an alley cropping site plan that would accommodate its unique goals.

Get an overview of this ancient agroforestry practice that today’s land stewards can adapt to conserve and enrich natural resources while diversifying their income streams.

Learn about two farms adopting this agroforestry practice in the Keystone State.