Plant The Trees
In this podcast, we'll talk about all things agroforestry and what you need to know to plant, grow, and monetize your trees.
Podcasting since 2025 • 19 episodes
Plant The Trees
Latest Episodes
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.We’re going to explore both sides of that coin, and hop...
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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” or less productive because it’s wet or poorly drained. Not wetland, but dam...
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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 planet, and the integrity of our rural economies and our ecosystems reaches bey...
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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 Brazil utilizing planned ecological succession to grow food and restore the vi...
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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 quality in the streams and creeks that flow into Lake Erie.Julie gr...
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