Forest Livelihoods
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Forest Livelihoods co-produces collaborative and actionable knowledge about regenerative, multi-story agroforestry.
New farmers and people considering agroforestry as a livelihood may be inspired and educated through the short case studies, videos, and technical scenarios we are producing in our Sharing Successes in Agroforestry project.
Recent Blog Posts
First Community Wealth Event in Leslie County: Farm Service Agency 'Farm Number Registration Clinic'
January 31, 2025
Agroforestry Updates: Forest Farming Spring 2024 Recap
June 27, 2024
UPDATE: Sharing Successes in Forest Farming across Central Appalachia
November 27, 2020
Community Wealth from Healthy Rivers and Forests
The Community Wealth from Healthy Rivers and Forests project will feature outreach to 26 Appalachian counties along the Kentucky and Tug Fork Rivers. In collaboration with the Center for Heirs' Property Preservation, Friends of the Tug Fork River, and the Kentucky Riverkeeper, LiKEN will improve local livelihoods through increased access to agroforestry training, resources, and markets.
Sharing Successes in Agroforestry
Forest farming plays an important role as we move beyond resource extraction-based economies. It can provide supplementary or primary livelihoods rooted in diverse, meaningful, and multigenerational cultural heritages. Sharing Successes in Agroforestry (SSIA) values this practice, the local knowledge that sustains it, and being ecologically tuned-in to the landscape.
