Plant The Trees

Farm Forestry for Fine Woodworking — With Rowan Reid

Rowan Reid is an agroforester from the southeast of Australia. He’s been planting and growing trees since the 1980s, and spurring forestry and fine woodworking in a regio

Rot-Resistant Lumber and The Market for Black Locust — with Zach Rike

Black locust is a fast growing hardwood, native to the Allegheny Plateau and surrounding bioregions in the eastern half of the United States. The wood is highly durable,

The Nuance of Invasive Species

An audio-version of our written article:  https://www.propagateag.com/blog/the-nuance-of-invasive-species The Threat of Invasive SpeciesThe American Chestnut (blight) an

Building with Whole Trees and Structural Round Timber — with Amelia Baxter

Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of WholeTrees. WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functi

Agritourism and Agroforestry in Costa Rica — with Scott Gallant

Costa Rica has one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Quite a few years ago now, they dissolved their military and placed their focus on services. Not j

Bear, Lynx, Goshawks, and 350 Beaver Dams per Sq. Mile: Forest Management and Biodiversity — With Ethan Tapper

We’re planting all of these trees, many of which carry the goal of ecological benefit: conservation, regeneration, fish, wildlife, water quality, flood mitigation, relati

Machinery for Agroforestry — with Darren J. Doherty

Darren J. Doherty, founder of Regrarians, is a pioneer in modern regenerative agriculture and agroforestry in the anglosphere and beyond. He’s planned hundreds of farms a

Mechanizing Agroforestry — with Bob Walker

How do you further mechanize tree planting? Where are the leverage points? How do you get the trees on a perfect grid or a Keyline grid, at inch-accurate, GPS-guided inte

Multi-Generational Capital, Family Business, and Agroforestry – with Jeremy Kaufman

Jeremy Kaufman, together with our CEO Ethan Steinberg, and I, started working on Propagate in 2016. 10 years later, we have some insight into planting trees on farms, not

Multi-Generational Chestnut Ecosystems – with Dr. Amy Miller

It’s one thing to plant trees. And stewarding a chestnut ecosystem is a multigenerational endeavor. Today we’ll dive into chestnut yields, harvest and post-harvest proces

Trees for Beginners: 5 Perennials for Fruit, Timber, Starch, and Winter Florals

Before you plant apples, blueberries, and black walnut, try these 5 species instead.  I started out 15 years ago planting black walnut and apples, because apples are the

Funding Agroforestry – The myriad ways of paying for trees, and the unspoken reality of how the dollars flow.

How are we paying for trees? How are you paying for trees? At the end of the day, there is no free lunch. We’re either paying with our time, or paying with our wallet.

Hickory Oil and Damp Soil — with Jesse Marksohn of Yellowbud Farm

Farmland is often considered marginal because it’s rocky, steep, or because the soils are too shallow. But in much of the northeast and midwest, farmland is “sub prime” o

Trees for Rural Economies: The United Nations, Türkiye, and Robinia – With İsmail Belen and Márton Németh

Global perspectives on forest-driven economies. It’s easy to confine ourselves and our thinking to our own countries, states, and bioregions. But we all live on one plane

Syntropic Food Forests in New Zealand and Beyond, With Byron Grows

Byron and I first encountered syntropic agroforestry in the same way. There was a stunning documentary released in 2014 called Life in Syntropy. It profiled farms in Braz

200+ Acres of Productive Chestnuts! Managing a Multigenerational Farm in Ohio, with Julie Richards

Julie Richards stewards the operations of Ohio Chestnuts and Wintergreen Tree Farm. 200+ acres of chestnuts produce great food for real people, while improving water qual

50 Years of Commercial Chestnuts, with Greg Miller

It’s 1972. Led Zeppelin IV just hit the airwaves, and Greg Miller is planting chestnut trees as a junior in high school. With time on his side, he goes on to get a PhD in

Agroforestry and Personality: Planting The Right Trees For The Right People

What do agroforestry-interested land managers have in common? And how do they differ? Are they open minded and risk averse? Are they extroverted and orderly? Our hypothes

Chestnuts and Food For the Future

Russell Wallack, founder of Breadtree, joins us to talk chestnuts and perennial pantry stables. Breadtree farms on 800 acres in the Upper Hudson Valley (NY) and Southwes

Can Agroforestry Feed the World?

Planting trees? On farmland? But what about feeding the world? There’s a lot wrapped up in this question, and we’re here to bring you the frameworks and the data on how a