Forest Herb Network
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The Virginia Tech Catawba Sustainability Center’s Forest Herb Network was established in 2021 to help prospective and new growers in the Roanoke and New River valleys and beyond to cultivate, process, and sell woodland medicinal herbs.
Subscribe to our mailing list and check out our recommended resources for learning more about forest farming.
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Resources
The Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition is a partner of this project and we highly recommend their forest farming resources. Become a member free to access all their resources.
Check out the Winter 2022 Resouce Webinar Series we partnered with them on called Forest Farming In Focus: A Deeper Dive with webinar recordings and .pdfs with compiled resources.
We also recommend the following books:
- Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal, and other Woodland Medicinals by Jeanine Davis and Scott Pearsons
- Farming in the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food And Medicinals in Temperate Forests by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel.
Funding for this project is sponsored by Roanoke County, through the Agriculture and Forestry Industry Development (AFID) Fund, and the Appalachian Beginning Forest Farming Coalition.
Join Our Mailing List
Send an email to ketrozzo@vt.edu with the subject line “Join Forest Herb Listserv” if you would like to join our mailing list to stay in the loop with our offerings.