This event in Dunlap, Tennessee, is part of Appalachian Sustainable Development's Agroforestry Farm Tour Series. This tour will include a great overview of an established forest farming site, as well as a brief demonstration of typical post-harvest handling and cleaning of forest botanicals. Tour participants will see American Ginseng, Black Cohosh, Goldenseal, Mayapple, and other forest botanicals growing under a natural overstory.

Michael Boring is a second-generation root and herb dealer in the Sequatchie Valley of Tennessee. This tour will include a great overview of an established forest farming site, as well as a brief demonstration of typical post-harvest handling and cleaning of forest botanicals. Tour participants will see American Ginseng, Black Cohosh, Goldenseal, Mayapple and other forest botanicals growing under a natural overstory.

Agroforestry Farm Tour Series: Agroforestry is a land management system in which trees and shrubs are intentionally grown alongside crops and/or livestock. Interested in seeing these practices on a farm near you? ASD is hosting five farm tours throughout the region, showcasing great examples of silvopasture, alley cropping, forest farming, and other ways that producers have successfully integrated woody plant materials into their lives and farming operations.