Species-Specific, Experienced-Based Agroforestry Resources

Free practical guidebooks for temperate agroforestry and tree crop farmers with a focus on chestnut, honey locust, and yellowbud hickory. These in-depth resources cover genetics and cultivar selection, establishment and management, nursery stock, yield data, harvesting and processing equipment, and more. Each draws on the direct experience and knowledge of the authors and dozens of practitioners, grounded in peer-reviewed research where it exists.

𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠? 𝐸𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠@𝑔𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝑚

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SAMUEL THAYER

Samuel Thayer researches and teaches about edible wild plants, sustainable food systems, and the ecology of food. He is the author of four award-winning books: The Forager's Harvest, Nature's Garden, Incredible Wild Edibles, and Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America. Samuel owns a diverse organic orchard where he grows hickory nuts and numerous other native food plants. For more than two decades he has worked to revive the manufacture of yellowbud hickory oil.

Contact: foragersharvest.com; sam@foragersharvest.com

This project was made possible by a grant from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program (FNE23-047), through Big River Chestnuts.