Agroforestry, according to Ron Smith of New Brunswick, is “managing trees and other stuff together.”  This down-to-earth definition works well for Smith and clients of his consulting company, VarFor Ltd., which he founded after working for the Canadian Forest Service for 27 years.  Smith discussed the great economic, environmental and social potential of agroforestry at the 10th North American Agroforestry Conference at Université Laval in Quebec in June 2007.

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Raimund Kohl, a Christmas tree grower in Germany, has been in touch with Len and Nancy Price, who grow Christmas trees in Newburgh, Maine, about using sheep to keep the grasses and weeds down around Christmas trees.

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