Today I talk with Kaitie Adams, she leads the Savanna Institute's Illinois Demonstration Farm program and helps build community through agroforestry education across the state and beyond. Kaitie and I explore together how they build relationships with different stakeholders to make agroforestry projects become a reality in the mid-west. We engage with themes such as cultural perceptions of agroforestry and the multiple ways the Savanna Institute is leveraging change. We also took the time to discuss their demonstration sites, their design methodology working with local farmers as well as debriefing on certain of their mistakes and lessons learnt.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
02:09 Introduction
04:54 The Savanna Institute
10:02 Engaging with cultural perceptions
23:30 Agroforestry as an additional layer of use of the land
46:12 Raising capital
52:44 Design of demonstration sites
01:11:06 Complexity of systems
01:18:14 Plans for commercialisation
01:24:53 Mistakes and lessons learnt
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