The authors are available for speaking events and consultations for farmers and forest owners.
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Ken Mudge is a professor of Horticulture at Cornell University since 1986. He has been engaged in rural economic development through research and education on development of non-timber forest products for over 20 years. He teaches courses on forest farming, plant propagation, and grafting including public online courses in horticulture.
His research has focused on the agroforesty practice of forest farming, with particular emphasis on non-timber forest products including nitrogen-fixing trees, American ginseng, and forest cultivated mushrooms. He is the Primary Investigator on a Northeast SARE-funded extension project to train forest owners in shiitake mushroom production as a business enterprise in collaboration with the University of Vermont and established shiitake farmers.
Ken also conducts workshops and other activities for training forest owners in non-timber forest products. Many activities are centered on the MacDaniels Nut Grove, an agroforestry research and demonstration center at Cornell.