“Farming has been taking resources from the land in a sense,” Brausieck (SCD Resource Planner) said.

But agroforestry allows farmers to harvest food in a way that’s protecting natural resources and regenerating the land.

“It’s creating a way for farming to be part of the solution,” she said.

Photo credit: Kevin Clark, Everett Herald

"For Our Children"

Photo courtesy of Anna Caruso.

"Jeremy Visser shows his daughter, Leia, 4, some one-day-old dehydrated manure in his manurecompost barn. Having the liquid removed, the manure is soft and feathery. They use it for the cows to sleep on instead of wood chips." (Dan Bates / The Herald)