Silvopasture and Brush Management: Tools, Techniques and Economics

Featuring local experts in woodland management, this field day is designed for land owners and managers who find themselves struggling to manage invasive woodland brush.

We'll start at the Oak Savanna Learning Center with a presentation by UMN Adjunct Agroforestry and Economics Professor Dean Current, who will overview the economics of long-term woodlands management. Then we head out for a tour led by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cody Carlstrom of Refuge sites where shrub management techniques like fire, cutting and cattle have been deployed, followed by SFA Silvopasture consultant Bryan Simon who will explain how goats fit into the mix (Yes -- you will get to see some goats during the tour). Then we'll head back to the Learning Center for lunch and an opportunity to ask our presenters questions and share thoughts and observations with each other.

Check-in at Sherburne's Oak Savanna Learning Center begins at 8:30 -- our first presentation starts promptly at 9 a.m. This event will be held rain or shine.
We recommend wearing comfortable walking shoes and bringing a hat and sunscreen. Please register so we can plan for a bit of caravanning to different sites at Sherburne and to help us determine a headcount for lunch.

Registration: It is free to attend and a box lunch will be provided. Advance registration is required, no walkups.

This event is co-hosted with Great River Greening. Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

SFA staff and volunteers occasionally take photos during our workshops, cafe chats and field days for promotional purposes and to use as documentation of events to share with our funders.  If you do not wish to be photographed, please let our event host know -- we'll make every effort to make sure you are not photographed.