Thursday, September 5, 2024

Cost: Free – But registration is required

Capacity: 40 people

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Location: 2877 Piney Woods Road, Burgaw, NC, 28425

Piney Woods Farm is a diversified farm operation run by Buron and Sara Lanier in Burgaw, North Carolina. In addition to a cow/calf and backgrounding operation, the Lanier’s grow peaches, raise donkeys, own the local hardware store, and sell forage seeds. The total farm acreage is currently just over 400 acres in both rented and owned land, with primarily Aycock

soils. The farm currently runs about 150 cows and 6 bulls. The fall born calves are sold preconditioned through retained ownership at feedlots or as part of the Coastal Carolina Cattle Alliance. Additionally, grass finished freezer beef is also sold off of the farm to local restaurants, colleges, hardware store customers, and neighbors. The Lanier’s silvopasture system is on 100 acres, and combines cattle, Loblolly pine, and crabgrass and ryegrass forages.

(This event is part of a two-day series in southeastern NC.) 

Friday, September 6, 2024

Cost: Free – But registration is required

Capacity: 40 people

Time: 10 am – 12 pm

Location: 604 Farm Rd, Goldsboro, NC 27530

This 17-acre agroforestry demonstration project began as an alley cropping system at the CEFS (Center for Environmental Farming Systems) Field Research, Education, and Outreach Facility at Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro, NC. The study was originally designed as a research and demonstration project to evaluate an alley cropping system of corn and soybeans in rotation between rows of loblolly pine, longleaf pine, and cherrybark oak. Poor economic performance of grain crops during the first 6 years prompted the transition to a silvopasture design. In 2013,  alleys were planted to annual ryegrass in fall 2013, and then to a native warm-season grass mixture in late spring 2014.  The perennial grass mixture included big bluestem, switchgrass, indiangrass, and eastern gamagrass. Currently, half of the areas under the trees have been grazed by beef steers while the other half are under clipping management for hay production, bioenergy, and conservation purposes. 

(This event is part of a two-day series in southeastern NC.) 

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Cost: Free – But registration is required

Capacity: 30 people

Time: 10am – Noon

Location: 2700 Willow Run Road, Harrisonburg VA 22802

Join us in Harrisonburg, VA at The Farm at Willow Run, where we’ll be discussing Silvopasture systems, the importance of genetic repositories, and cooperative land management.  We’ll begin with a short discussion followed by a walking tour and conversation about this unique system.  The Farm at Willow Run is a 40 acre parcel owned by, and adjacent to, Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. The goal of the farm is to produce healthy, sustainably grown food to feed and nourish our local community and provide equitable community access to learn and experience food and farming systems.  The silvopasture at Willow Run was installed over the last several years as a part of the Catalyzing Agroforestry Grant Program and is a great opportunity to learn about silvopasture establishment and see a young project.  They’ve got lots of lessons to share from the fledgling phase of this system.  We’ll also discuss the atypical land access model at the farm and the opportunity this has created for community-based agroforestry to thrive.

This event is Free, but registration is Required.

Contact The Project Manager

Emilie Tweardy, Agroforester

etweardy@asdevelop.org
276.623.1121