Contact: Will Lewis, Forest Farming Coordinator yewforestfarming@gmail.com
Agroforestry Practices: Forest Farming, Maple Syrup & Mushrooms Demonstration
Agroforestry Acres: 10
Project Summary: The Yew Mountain Center is a non profit organization focusing on education. We are located near Hillsboro WV on a 500 acre piece of property that is mostly forested. We have been developing our forest farm since 2018. We have several different areas and sites where we have planted demonstration beds of forest botanicals that we use for nursery stock production but also for educational purposes. Our main focus has been on the production of forest botanicals, but we also have a 160 tap maple syrup sugar bush and a small mushroom log production area.
As stated our primary goal is educational. We host the annual WV forest farming field day which offers various classes on all forest farming topics. We also have several other forest farming workshops throughout the year on various topics such as a ramps, seed collection, planting, and our new Mountain Medicine Weekend. We love to have visitors and teach anyone that is interested in learning more about forest farming. We also have a lodge where people can come and stay and spend time at our site.
Agroforestry Goals: Forest botanical production and research. Education of all forest farming practices.
Agroforestry Trees and Shrubs: We farm and wild steward golden seal, ramps, black cohosh, ginseng, and other forest botanicals, we also have demonstration maple syrup operation and mushroom log production.
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