A catalpa tree is both a beautiful tree, a wood product and a source of food for the fish-loving catalpa worm.
Collecting a Black Walnut Crop for Seeds and Nuts
The best on-line book I've found detailing various self-help suggestions for making money from non-timber forest products (pdf format).
Quail hunting is an alternative financial opportunity to timber management for forest landowners.
American ginseng is a valuable non-timber forest product that is collected and sold on the open market and mainly used for its healing and curative properties. This tutorial gives tips and instruction on how to identify, harvest and market Panax quinquefolius.
There are more ways to make money from your forest than cutting timber from your About.com Guide.
Wonderful Shiitake - Aphrodisiac, Immune Enhancer, Food: This feature deals with a fungi called Lentinus edodes, or Shiitake mushroom. It is a major item of produce in Asia and is associated with health benefits and cuisine. Learn about the mushroom and how to cultivate it.
You can make charcoal a business. Read this and find out if you really want to from your About.com Guide.
Frequently asked questions on harvesting pine straw...
An interview with a pine straw expert from your About.com Guide.
Ginseng could be your next money-maker. Check out this short photo essay on Panax quinquefolium.
An agroforestry glossary of terms from Bugwood...
"Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems." So what does this mean? Check it here.
An organization created to promote the wider adoption of agroforestry by landowners in temperate North America...
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Farming: Towards a Solution to Problems of World Hunger and Conservation, this site provides a listing of trees used in production of oils, nuts, fodder, fruit, and legumes. It also provides links to sites explaining these trees.
The best on-line book I've found detailing various self-help suggestions for making money from non-timber forest products.
A complete site on Lichens. Check out "Lichens and People"....
Cornell University site with production, processing and research information...
A very informative site on the production of maple syrup.
USDA's site that explains agroforestry that includes alley cropping, silvopasture, and forest farming. A good gateway site and beginning point for agroforestry study.
An international non-timber forest product site.
Virginia Tech and others are "collaborating to develop and operate the first web site devoted to gathering information on products and markets." Check this site for the latest in special forest product.
Texarome is a premiere Texas distiller of botanical aromatics. Great music is provided while the site loads (slowwww). I still think it is a worthy site and gives great info on the distillation of aromatics to include sandlewood and cedar.
"The morel, one of the most prized and most delicious mushrooms, has finally been cultivated. The morel is perhaps the best known of the edible fungi, since it is easily identified even by those who have but a slight knowledge of mycology,". Very good fungi site with great pictures.
