This document discusses using diverse forest cropping to create jobs and restore ecology in Western North Carolina. It notes that about $65 million worth of food is bought locally each year, and agriculture jobs declined from 70,000 to 12,000 from 1970 to 2012. Forests can be more productive than agricultural land, yielding thousands of calories per year. Existing forest crops like ginseng, elderberry syrup, and mushrooms can be highly profitable. The document proposes forest guild approaches like riparian reforestation cropping and managing dying hemlock forests to produce diverse, sustainable yields for food, materials, energy and more.

1. Diverse Forest Cropping For Job Creation and Ecological Recovery Presented by Zev Friedman, Living Systems Design Feb. 27, 2012

7. Streamside Reforestation Cropping- Elderberry, Sochan, Mulberry, Alder, Stropharia mushrooms

8. Dying Hemlock Forest Cropping and Habitat Restoration

9. Coppice with standards- Chestnut, white oak, butternut, hazelnut, black locust, tulip poplar

10. Oyster Mushrooms Pleurotus spp.

11. Coppice

12. Coppice recently harvested, leaving standards

13. Where Renewable Energy, Sustainable Forestry and Organic Agriculture Come Together- A Pyrolytic Multiple Yield Electrical Plant