These special forest product marketing resources are included because of the
high-quality, unbiased information they contain
or their pertinence to New York special forest
products. Many of the websites include helpful
bulletins and articles. As you develop your
agroforestry enterprise, you will certainly
come across other sources of information,
so please make an effort to continue your
research and education beyond this list.
Agroforestry and marketing considerations
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States,
edited by Eric T. Jones, Rebecca J. McLain, and
James Weigand.
University Press of Kansas,
2002.
ISBN: 0700611665
Discovering Profits in Unlikely Places: Agroforestry
Opportunities for Added Income - BU-07407,
by Scott Josiah.
University of Minnesota.
Minnesota’s Special Forest Products - A Market Study.
Marketing
opportunities in special forest products including:
decorative greenery, dried florals and ornamentals,
herbs and medicinals, decorative woods,
cones, and smokewoods and flavorwoods.
Prepared by Mater Engineering for the State of Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources. Download at http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/forestry/um/index.html
Cornell University Agroforestry
http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/cawg
USDA National Agroforestry Center
http://www.unl.edu/nac
Association for Temperate Agroforestry
http://www.aftaweb.org
Non-timber Forest Products at the Virginia Tech
Department of Wood Science and Forest Products
http://www.sfp.forprod.vt.edu
University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry
http://www.centerforagroforestry.org/
National Learning Center for Private Forest and
Range Landowners
http://forestandrange.org
Click on the tutorial named “The How, When, and
Why of Forest Farming”
National Sustainable Agriculture Information
Service
http://www.attra.org
Institute for Culture and Ecology’s Nontimber Forest
Products in the United States
http://www.ifcae.org/ntfp
Forest cultivated mushrooms
The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to
Growing Mushrooms at Home, by Paul Stamets
and J.S. Chilton.
Agarikon Press, 1984.
ISBN: 0961079800
Shiitake Growers Handbook: The Art and Science
of Mushroom Cultivation, by Paul Przybylowciz
and John Donoghue. Kendall/Hunt Publishing
Company, 1990.
ISBN: 0840349629
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms,
3rd Ed., by Paul Stamets.
Ten Speed Press,
2000.
ISBN: 1580081754
Maple products
North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual
(Bulletin 856) 1996.
The Ohio State University
Extension and the North American Maple Syrup
Council.
Obtain a print through Cornell Cooperative
Extension or view online at http://ohioline.osu.edu/b856. As of 2004, the Manual was
being revised, so availability is limited.
Cornell University Maple Program
http://maple.dnr.cornell.edu
Nuts and berries
A guide to nut tree culture in North America /
Vol 1. Northern Nut Growers Association, Inc.
(2003). ISBN: 0974166308
Northern Nut Growers Association
http://www.northernnutgrowers.org
Many articles
and references about nut growing.
Ginseng and forest botanicals
The Practical Guide to Growing Ginseng by
Bob Beyfuss. Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Greene County. 906 Mt Ave, Cairo NY 12413
(518) 622-9820
A 65 page primer on growing ginseng in backyards
or woodlots.
American Ginseng: Green Gold by W. Scott
Persons. Bright Mountain Books, 1994.
ISBN 0682402915
Appalachian Ginseng Foundation
http://www.a-spi.org/AGF
Landscaping and habitat restoration / reforestation
products
Natural Landscaping: Designing with Native
Plant Communities, 2nd ed., by John Diekelmann
and Robert Schuster- University of
Wisconsin Press, 2002. ISBN: 0299173240
Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody
Plants, by Richard E. Bir. University of North
Carolina Press, 1992. ISBN: 0807843660
Specialty wood and decorative products
Non-Timber Forest Products Marketing Systems
and Market Players in Southwest Virginia:
A Case Study of Craft, Medicinal and Herbal,
Specialty Wood, and Edible Forest Products
by Sarah M. Greene. (Master’s thesis) Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University,
1998.
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