18:31:26 From Lauren Weston 2 to Everyone : Hi everyone! 18:32:50 From Rebecca to Everyone : Hi! Rebecca Mitchell Woodstock, Vermont 18:32:52 From Becky Colpitts she, her, hers to Everyone : Hi everyone! I am Becky Colpitts, Littleton Food Co-op Community Outreach Coordinator. I am at home in Monroe, NH. 18:33:18 From Becky Colpitts she, her, hers to Everyone : Forests have taught me to be quiet and just be. 18:33:18 From Catherine Harris to Everyone : Catherine Harris and Tim Howe - Woodbury Vermont 18:34:02 From Avi Bauer to Everyone : https://www.vermonthealthysoilscoalition.org/donate 18:34:13 From Grace Gershuny to Everyone : Hi All -- Grace Gershuny here in beautiful Barnet, Vermont. What a beautiful day! 18:34:24 From Avi Bauer to Everyone : https://www.vermonthealthysoilscoalition.org/stories-from-the-north 18:34:43 From Rebecca to Everyone : Rebecca from Kirby VT forests have taught me the importance of place. 18:35:04 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Zooming in from Thetford VT 18:35:28 From Sacred Circle Homestead to Everyone : Forests have taught us the meaning of abundance! 18:37:52 From Marilyn Chiarello to Everyone : Hi Soil Mates, I’m Marilyn zooming in from Brattleboro, VT. Forests have taught me about solitude and interconnection, silence and the abundance of nature’s sounds. 18:37:57 From Felix.Jimenez to Everyone : Hi, Felix NRCS VT 18:38:16 From Peter Higbee to Everyone : Peter from northern NH here. I learned from a forest many years ago just how connected all living creatures are. 18:38:43 From Margaret Connors to Everyone : Margo, Sugar Hill, NH Forests are a place to be safe and protected. 18:38:59 From Catherine Harris to Everyone : The woods have taught me the resilience of this world and grounded me and taught me gratefulness for all the life around me 18:39:05 From Gwendolyn Hallsmith to Everyone : My name is Gwendolyn Hallsmith, I live in Cabot at the Headwaters Garden and Learning Center, an ecovillage founded on permaculture principles. We're calling for a Regeneration Revolution. I'll post a link below. Forests have been my home since I was a child, I have learned some of my most important lessons there. 18:39:14 From Jessie and Michael to Everyone : Jessie Haas and Michael Daley from Westminster West, VT. We have lived in the woods for 36 years, and there is always more to learn. 18:39:19 From jette Chery to Everyone : We are Jette and Zaka from Calabash Gardens in Wells River Vermont, forests have taught us how to listen and truly hear the magic in the world. 18:39:22 From Gwendolyn Hallsmith to Everyone : https://youtu.be/8nJ_tmDe63w 18:39:28 From Clare Wilmot to Everyone : From Waterford, Clare. Forests are magical places with very inclusive growth. You cannot hurt one part, without affecting the whole. 18:39:36 From Mollie & Rob Pinsonneault to Everyone : Rob and Mollie, from Nashua, NH… and what a loaded question! Forests are everything. They taught me how ecology is more than just a discipline… it’s a way of being that is in concert with what is good and just. 18:40:36 From Mary von Alt to Everyone : Chris and Mary von Alt from Maidstone Lake in the NEK. Around us, logging has drastically changed the forest. The forests are teaching us how Nature struggles to recover from mankind’s wrecking. 18:41:16 From Tatiana Schreiber to Everyone : Tatiana living down in Westminster West... I too find that question overwhelming... I've been learning from forests all my life, and the learning is ongoing... but I guess I'd say mostly that forests have taught me that there's always more going on out there in complex ecosystems than we can ever understand with our human senses and tools... 18:41:20 From Nancy to Everyone : Nancy Lebanon, NH. ......shape, form, beauty winterscapes and more 18:41:39 From Grace Gershuny to Everyone : Woods and trees balm my soul, cleanse the air and water, and always listen to my heart. 18:41:50 From Elizabeth J. to Everyone : Hello from Fairfax, VT! From the forest I have learned how to look, listen, smell, touch, taste, breathe, wonder, wonder, bend with the wind, stand tall in the storm, be a small + mighty one, be a resilient community member, interdependence, interbeing..... and so much more ❤️ 18:42:20 From roz Lowen to Everyone : Roz Lowen from lincoln nh. Forests support and share with ectomycorrhizal fungi. A mutual benefit! 18:42:48 From Judith Tharinger to Everyone : Dan Breslaw and Jude Tharnger, Lost Meadow Land Coop, West Corinth, VT. Living and working on our 600 acres has taught us a tiny (but important) bit about what nature is like and how we can be more a part of it. 18:44:55 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : The trees have/are teaching me patience 18:45:54 From Suzanne Chase to Everyone : Good Evening...Suzanne Chase from Sugar Hill NH :) Forests are grounding for me.... 18:45:55 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Dear attendees: As questions arise, please add them to the chat! We’ll queue them up. 18:51:23 From Heather Bryant to Everyone : Beautiful photos, thank you! Does the saffron stay in the rows where you planted them, and how do you manage weeds? 18:54:44 From Catherine Harris to Everyone : What plants will be in the woods gardens? 18:56:43 From Rebecca to Everyone : Jette and Shoka: You two are amazing! What big hearts you have; I can feel it! Thank you for your lovely, generous regenerative work with the earth, and hospitality and community oriented thoughts. 19:04:07 From EdwardKing to Everyone : Forests breath so that we may breath. 19:06:23 From jette Chery to Everyone : Hi Cathrine, we already have a lot of really beautiful woodland herbs, such as a variety of ferns, blue and black cohosh, wild bleeding hearts, dutchman breeches and on and on! We will be enhancing these species as well as trying ramps, and ginseng! So those are just a few of the plants we will be planting and directing in our woodland gardens. 19:06:45 From jette Chery to Everyone : Thanks Rebecca! 19:09:51 From jette Chery to Everyone : The saffron does stay in the rows! The daughter corms grow in a spiral pattern around the mother corm. They do become too dense and must be dug and replanted eventually. However can stay in the ground anywhere from 3-7 years. We will be combating weeds with cover crops. We are developing a bio diverse cover crop with as many appropriate species as possible between the rows on in the walk ways. We will be hopefully cover cropping the actual rows with a legume blend that can be mowed down before the saffron sprouts in September. This will add a mulch which will help wth weeds as well as adding nutrients. 19:10:44 From marianne to Everyone : Thanks Sam 19:24:31 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Here is the link to the Natural Communities Guide recommended by Sam Wetland, Woodland, Wildland (Chelsea Green) https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/wetland-woodland-wildland/ 19:26:26 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Nhwoods.org 19:31:57 From Peter Higbee to Everyone : Hugelkultur? 19:32:18 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Hugelkultur. Yes, that’s correct. 19:38:24 From Marilyn Chiarello to Everyone : Website? 19:38:54 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : sacredcirclehomestead.org 19:39:10 From Krystal Krampitz to Everyone : Wonderful job guys!! So proud!! 19:39:41 From Adrain to Everyone : Thoughts on cedar swamps? 19:41:12 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Here is the link to the Natural Communities Guide recommended by Sam Wetland, Woodland, Wildland (Chelsea Green) https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/wetland-woodland-wildland/ 19:42:17 From Marilyn Chiarello to Everyone : What’s the discount code again? (I thought I’d remember it, but…) 19:42:34 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Vermont: https://fpr.vermont.gov/forest/list-vermont-county-foresters 19:42:55 From Lauren Weston to Everyone : PWEB35 19:43:24 From Tatiana Schreiber to Everyone : Will a county forester come to do a walk-through for someone with a very small amount of woodland - say 5 acres? And if so, do they charge for this? Related question, how does one find an hydrologist who might be able to help do a site analysis for water flows? 19:43:39 From Meghan’s iPhone to Everyone : Yes. There is an organization called Interlace Commons and Interlace Agroforestry both serve farms and technical service providers across the northeast. 19:43:46 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : New Hampshire county foresters: https://extension.unh.edu/countyforesters 19:44:13 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Interlace Agroforestry is Meghan Giroux. Amazing! 19:44:52 From Tatiana Schreiber to Everyone : There was an agroforestry network that sprang up a few years ago, and met a few times in Brattleboro... but the group didn't persist... maybe time to start up again... 19:44:53 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Cornell: https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/agroforestry/ 19:46:56 From Meghan’s iPhone to Everyone : There is an agroforestry taskforce here in Vermont. 19:47:39 From Becky Colpitts she, her, hers to Everyone : What kind of mulch on the saffron beds? 19:48:01 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Interlace Agroforestry and Commons https://www.facebook.com/InterlaceAgroforestry/ 19:49:39 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : @Tatiana, Yes! 19:58:49 From Cat Buxton to Everyone : Thank you all so much. This was very informative. 19:59:12 From Peter Higbee to Everyone : Thanks to all the presenters and organizers. 19:59:42 From marianne to Everyone : Encouraging to hear this respect for our forests thank you all 20:00:27 From Becky Colpitts she, her, hers to Everyone : Another excellent evening!! thank you! 20:00:31 From Clare Wilmot to Everyone : Great, Thank you. 20:00:32 From Elizabeth J. to Everyone : So wonderful! Thank you 🙏🏽