{"id":49057,"date":"2022-11-03T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/?p=49057"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:59:44","slug":"with-new-federal-funding-has-agroforestrys-moment-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2022\/11\/03\/with-new-federal-funding-has-agroforestrys-moment-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"With New Federal Funding, Has Agroforestry’s Moment Arrived?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>

Recent months have delivered a harvest of agroforestry funding news in the U.S., just as the season\u2019s remaining crops ripened. The announcement of $60 million in support from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) in particular has stoked enthusiasm for this sustainable agriculture technique that also sequesters carbon and boosts biodiversity. <\/p><\/div>

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“This funding will catalyze significant private investments into the industry and increase farmers\u2019 incomes while simultaneously expanding carbon sequestration, soil health, biodiversity, and water quality.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThere is a windfall of federal money entering the agroforestry sector,\u201d Meghan Giroux told Mongabay. The director of Vermont-based agroforestry consultancy\u00a0Interlace Commons<\/a>, she is currently implementing a program to boost regional training capacity toward helping farms implement this sustainable farming technique\u2013which blends annual crops and livestock with perennial shrubs and trees in a carbon-sequestering system that\u2019s also more resilient to droughts and floods\u2013while keeping her eye on the sizable new opportunities coming from the federal government.<\/p>\n

That federal funding comes as interest in\u00a0agroforestry<\/a> is growing rapidly in the U.S. alongside the need to rapidly adopt more climate-positive types of agriculture: Though Giroux\u2019s current project is funded<\/a>\u00a0by a private foundation, people like her see a myriad of funding opportunities and even more enthusiasm among people seeking training and support to implement it.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Will U.S. commodity agriculture start looking more like this? Planting crops like corn and soybeans between alleys of trees or shrubs that produce fruits or nuts also increases carbon sequestration and resilience to heat, drought, and heavy rainfall. (Photo credit: NAC\/CC BY 2.0)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Lindsay Allen of Buckland, Massachusetts, is a good example. Her Fern Hill Farm is one of many currently receiving support from Interlace Commons to implement an agroforestry system where annual crops will be grown among rows of closely planted nut and berry cultivars.<\/p>\n

\"Lindsay<\/a>

Lindsay Allen plans to implement an agroforestry system on her farm with support from Interlace Commons. (Photo credit: Erik Hoffner\/Mongabay)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been farming for 12 years, but it\u2019s not been agroforestry-focused, so to have the advice of someone like Meghan is excellent,\u201d Allen told Mongabay between helping customers at her busy farmer\u2019s market booth in neighboring Ashfield.<\/p>\n

Many other farmers like her stand to gain from the USDA\u2019s mid-September unveiling of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (CSC) program,\u00a0investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 projects. One of these 70 is a $60 million project to advance agroforestry, and is administered by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), which will distribute funds to local and regional for-profit and nonprofit training and support partners\u2013from Alabama to Maine, Minnesota to Hawaii and Texas\u201337 states in all.<\/p>\n

One of the partners in their \u201cExpanding Agroforestry Production and Markets<\/a>\u201d program to advance agroforestry systems for nut, fruit, and grass-fed beef production is Wisconsin-based Savanna Institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored and grateful to be among this incredible group of organizations and businesses who are committed to mitigating climate change,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Keefe Keeley, director of the nonprofit which is a leading agroforestry training and research provider in the Midwest on techniques like\u00a0alley cropping<\/a>\u00a0of hazelnuts.<\/p>\n

Agroforestry sequesters two to five tons of carbon per acre per year, TNC estimates. TNC’s Joe Fargione adds<\/a> that the level of adoption expected from this project would generate carbon sequestration of 1-2.5 percent of 2020 U.S. emissions from all sources, and over 20 years, the project could help farmers develop 80 million acres of high-density agroforestry, mitigating 3-6 percent of the country\u2019s 2020 emissions.<\/p>\n

For-profits including Propagate Ventures, which helps farms transition from conventional crops to agroforestry while turning a\u00a0profit<\/a>, are also part of the mix on the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis funding will catalyze significant private investments into the industry and increase farmers\u2019 incomes while simultaneously expanding carbon sequestration, soil health, biodiversity, and water quality,\u201d said Audrey Epp Schmidt, Propagate’s director of strategic partnerships. And it comes at the same moment that the firm announced its own funding news: the successful raising of $10 million in private capital to support its work helping farms transition their acreage to agroforestry.<\/p>\n

Only about 1.5 percent of U.S. agriculture is classified as agroforestry, according to a recent analysis<\/a>\u00a0by USDA\u2019s\u00a0National Agroforestry Center<\/a> (NAC), so technical assistance and farmer outreach efforts like the TNC-administered project\u2013which is forecast to bring 30,000 acres under that umbrella in the next five years\u2013would boost its scaling up across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still many bottlenecks to overcome to advance temperate agroforestry in the Northeast, but as always, it\u2019s the small farms that are leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

NAC has fresh leadership for that scaling effort, too. Anne Marsh was recently appointed as its new director.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Agroforestry Center will continue to support USDA agencies that have technical and financial assistance programs for farmers. That support comes in the form of new research on benefits, costs, and implementation considerations that can be incorporated into programs to make connections to agroforestry opportunities more visible,\u201d Marsh told Mongabay by email. \u201cThe Center will also develop new decision-making tools for technical support staff and farmers, and provide training to USDA staff and a growing number of non-federal partners to increase the delivery of agroforestry-related services.\u201d<\/p>\n

That emphasis on further training of USDA staff to train farmers will be welcomed by the agroforestry community, whose many adherents have generally not waited for government training or support to expand, but have instead plunged into it independently.<\/p>\n

Nutwood Farm established a still-maturing 2-acre hazelnut alley cropping system on a 7-acre former Christmas tree farm in Cummington, Massachusetts\u2013via a mixture of crowd-funding, a small Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grant<\/a>, plus great personal effort\u2013and is a good example.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re small, but we want to show it\u2019s possible,\u201d Nutwood co-owner Seva Water told Mongabay during a recent harvest party, where volunteers working among the hazelnut alleys\u2013between which sheep will eventually be grazed, making it a mixed alley cropping and silvopasture<\/a> site\u2013helped bring in 900 pounds of fresh nuts, which will yield about 200 pounds of kernels when dried.<\/p>\n

Would training still be useful to growers like her? \u201cTechnical\u00a0assistance is needed at all parts of the value chain, especially for the harvesting and processing of key perennial crops like hazelnuts,\u201d Water said.\u00a0\u201cThere are still many bottlenecks to overcome to advance temperate agroforestry in the Northeast, but as always, it\u2019s the small farms that are leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biodiversity benefits from agroforestry systems too, from bats to bugs and birds, here a songbird nest is perched in one of the hazelnut bushes at Nutwood Farm. (Photo credit: Erik Hoffner\/Mongabay)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Because local USDA office staffers generally don\u2019t offer such technical agroforestry training, that gap is something that programs like Interlace Agroforestry aim to close. Until then, aspiring agroforesters can start their search at the NAC\u2019s training resources page<\/a>\u00a0or the USDA\u2019s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), which plays a role, too, by offering\u00a0webinars<\/a>\u00a0for landowners, and several agroforestry practices are\u00a0listed<\/a>\u00a0among the NRCS\u2019s\u00a0Climate-Smart Mitigation Activities<\/a>\u00a0for 2022.<\/p>\n

While the millions in funding from the CSC is at the center of this current surge in interest, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act also contains climate provisions that could provide indirect support for agroforestry, since its funding will likely support existing USDA programs that come under the climate-smart agriculture banner.<\/p>\n

As technical assistance capacity continues to expand via these public and private programs, can aspiring growers gain the knowledge and support they need to get going, now? Interlace\u2019s Megan Giroux thinks so.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Until<\/a>

Until technical assistance can provide harvesting equipment for agroforestry crops like hazelnuts, picking happens by hand at Nutwood Farm. Volunteers Alexandra Tinari and Finnegan Torrey join farm co-owner Kalyan Water (right) in bringing in the 2022 harvest. (Photo credit: Erik Hoffner\/Mongabay)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\u201cAfter 30-plus years of work on agroforestry in the United States, the sector\u2019s moment has arrived. It\u2019s a blessing and a curse because on the one hand, our sector has never seen this level of commitment to agroforestry,\u201d Giroux said. \u201cOn the other, we are still woefully unprepared, without enough service providers appropriately equipped to train farmers in the modern forms of agroforestry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coming months and years, then, will be crucial to harness this new commitment and enhance training to increase agroforestry\u2019s implementation across the U.S., toward greater climate resilience of the nation\u2019s agriculture.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in Mongabay<\/a>, and is reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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