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Silvopasture on a Shoestring

• Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Join Joshua Greene, Director of Education at Trees For Graziers, and Lynn Bliven, owner of Wild Geese Farm for a full day training event that will include classroom and hands-on sessions. The focus will be on DIY silvopasture projects on small grazing farms. We will address the practical considerations of tree establishment, protection, and maintenance while learning how silvopasture can help address your farm’s resource concerns and enhance livestock grazing.

The workshop is from 9am - 3pm and includes morning refreshments and lunch.

Topics:

• layout and design considerations
• tree species for silvopasture
• tree planting basics
• tree protection methods
• the importance of aftercare
• grazing considerations
• old orchard silvopasture
• tick concerns with silvopasture establishment

Cost $25/person. Held rain or shine. Preregistration requested by September 30th, click here to register inline.

Our presenter: Joshua Greene, Director of Education at Trees For Graziers, runs Greene Kitchen Farm with his wife Nichole and their children. They custom graze certified organic dairy heifers and raise grass-fed beef & pastured poultry for direct market and ‘good eating’. Joshua and his family have worked to build a flexible, low-input grazing system on average Pennsylvania hillside soils. In place of the dying ash trees, they have planted over 2000 trees on the farm to provide shade for livestock.

About Wild Geese Farm: A 52-acre farm, raising registered Hereford cattle and Katahdin sheep. They have been rotationally grazing livestock for 30+ years. Farm Products include breeding stock along with grass-fed beef and lamb. This is their second season grazing within silvopasture planting while further developing an integrated system for the farm.

Location

Wild Geese Farm
8499 Agett Rd
Franklinville, NY 14737

Last updated May 27, 2025