May 4—CEDAR — Patti Travioli has operated Heartwood Forest Farm in Leelanau County for about 10 years. Travioli received a horticulture degree from Michigan State University and ran an organic farm in ...

Due to market pressures, ecosystem loss, and a growing consumer base, there is a push to inspire forest farming and herb growing. Documenting and sharing the Appalachian ethnobotanists' oral ...

Kate Paul bloomed where she was planted. She grew up in Forbes, just a mile down the road from where she and husband Ron now plant flower fields. “This land has been in my family for over 130 years,” ...

Near the banks of the Delaware River in northeast Pennsylvania, Steven Schwartz, his silver hair tied back beneath his hat, is searching for a seed. It’s ramp season, and finding one of the tiny black ...

Trees' role in agriculture tend to be viewed as limited to the lumber industry or highly organized orchards to grow fruits, but some farmers are looking to the forest floor to get more people into ...

LACONIA — Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center will begin a carefully planned forest management project on a portion of its 160-acre property in mid-January. Guided by science-based forestry ...

Advocates say growing niche market food, herbs and botanicals lowers the entry cost to farming and can also make smaller farms more profitable. Many think of a tree's role in agriculture as limited to ...

BRAINERD — The sap flow this season was at a crawl thanks to a late and unusual spring at Brainerd’s Clayhill Farm and Forest. In partnership with Northland Arboretum, Judy and Harry Worm, owners of ...