>>Josh: Where we headed? [tractor sounds] ♫ bluegrass music ♫>>Narration: Earlier this year, I recorded a video about my friend’s farm and seeing some good hawthorns. Now we’ve come to collect. The first step is clearing away the branches. The…
Tag: Appalachia
Turning Coal Mines into Farms
(pigs squealing) – When I was in the coal industry, it was feast or famine. Everything’s going great since they’ve shut down. I’ve got some eggs, man. Yeah, I went from working in a coal mine, blowing up the mountains,…
Sustainable Forest Farming with Dr. John Munsell
Wild harvesting is the way that we’ve sourced for generations our botanicals woodlands, and it, as the name implies, essentially is finding these products where they grow naturally and harvesting them in the wild. So technically defined forest farming is…
The Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition
The Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition is a network of forestland owners, universities, non-governmental and governmental organizations that share a common goal of improving agroforestry production opportunities and farming capabilities among forest farmers. What does membership mean for our farmers?…
Appalachian Innovators – Lavender Farming
I’m standing on land in Boone County that looks like a moonscape, with parched, gray dirt and jagged, blasted off mountaintops in the distance. Donnie Facemyer is a laid off coal miner. He helped strip this mountain back when he…