Farm Ops Offers Veteran Scholarships to Attend Silvopasture on a Shoestring

Farm Ops, the veterans in agriculture project of the Cornell Small Farms Program, is offering scholarships to attend CCE Allegany County’s Silvopasture on a Shoestring event. If you are a farmer veteran living in New York State, you may qualify for a Farm Ops Event of Choice Scholarship. Please click here to visit out Scholarship Page in order to learn more and apply.

Join Joshua Greene, Director of Education at Trees for Graziers, Jonathan Bates, Statewide Agroforestry Educator, and Lynn Bliven, Ag & Natural Resources Issue Leader with CCE Allegany County at Wild Geese Farm for a full day event that will include classroom and hands-on sessions. The focus will be on DIY silvopasture projects on small grazing farms. Open to farmers and landowners interested in learning the ins and outs of developing or expanding silvopasture grazing systems on their farm. We will address the practical considerations of tree establishment, protection, and maintenance while learning how silvopasture can help address your farm’s resource concerns and enhance livestock grazing.

Please plan to arrive by 8:45 AM to get registered as we will begin promptly at 9 AM.

Our presenter: Joshua Greene, Director of Education at Trees For Graziers, runs Greene Kitchen Farm with his wife Nichole and their children. They custom graze certified organic dairy heifers and raise grass-fed beef & pastured poultry for direct market and ‘good eating”. The family has worked to build a flexible, low-input grazing system, they have planted over 2000 trees to provide shade for livestock.

About Wild Geese Farm: A 52 acre farm, raising Hereford cattle and Katahdin sheep. They have been rotationally grazing livestock for 30+ years/ Farm products include breeding stock along with grass-fed beef and lamb. This is their second season grazing within silvopasture planting while further developing an integrated system for the farm.