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Haudenosaunee women sorting freshly cracked nuts at the Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Nation
Image by Samantha Bosco

Haudenosaunee women sorting freshly cracked nuts at the Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Nation

Indigenous man planting a food forest at the Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Nation
Image by Samantha Bosco

Planting a food forest at the Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Nation

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Haudenosaunee Agroforestry & Forest Relationships

  • Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The Cornell Small Farms Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County will offer a free webinar “Haudenosaunee Agroforestry and Forest Relationships” on Wednesday August 31 from 5:00 to 6:30pm. This collaborative and multivocal presentation aims to further the understanding of Indigenous agroforestry’s past and future in the highly colonized landscape of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, today known as New York State. Presenters will include:

    Abraham Francis (Deer Clan, Akwesasne) former Program Manager for the Environment Program of Akwesasne, current PhD student at Clarkson University.

    Samantha Bosco, PhD, Agroforestry and Nut Cropping Program Planner at Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County.

    Neil Patterson, Jr. (White Bear Clan, Tuscarora) Assoc. Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Agroforestry is the intentional combination of woody perennials with crops and/or livestock to meet livelihood and ecological needs. It is shown to enhance ecosystem services such as on-farm biodiversity, water quality protection, and as part of nature-based solutions to climate change, agroforestry can help mitigate 30-40% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Though it is garnering much recent attention, agroforestry has long existed globally in landscapes stewarded by Indigenous traditional ecological knowledges. Recognition of Indigenous contributions to agroforestry resound in global climate agreements and scientific reports, yet perspectives and projects that center Indigenous voices are sorely needed.

Register for “Haudenosaunee Agroforestry and Forest Relationships” through the Cornell Small Farms Program at bit.ly/AFwebinar22. Please direct questions to Samantha Bosco, PhD, Agroforestry and Nut Cropping Program Planner at Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County, at sfb42@cornell.edu or (607) 272-2292 ext. 168.

For information about the coordinating sponsors, please visit Cornell University Small Farms Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County online.


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Last updated August 23, 2022

 

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