Tree Fodder Info + Resources

Latest Webinar Presentation:

Tree & Shrub Leaf Silage Production for Agroforestry Systems NOFA Mass May 2nd 2024

Webinar Recording

Powerpoint Presentation



Climate info:


Peter Bane, audio rec. of presentation at Soil and Nutrition Conference Nov. 2019


What can a tree do? Jan Pokorný (2015)

Hanson (2021): Re-Greening an Earth on Hospice: Climate Care On-Farm, Right Here, for NOFA Natural Farmer


Hanson (2021): Solar Panels on Fields

Tree Fodder-related Documents:





Many authors inc. Hanson, Colloque Trognes 2019 Proceedings, 2nd European Symposium on Pollarding

Austad, Ingvild (2012): Wooded Hay Meadows as Viable Production Systems

Austad, Ingvild, Braanaas, Anders, and Haltvik, Marvin (2003). Lauv som ressurs; Ny bruk av gammel kunnskap, English summary Austad et al (2003) Shredded leaf fodders for sheep

Aubrecht et al. (2018): Non-structural carbohydrate storage in northeastern trees (sent by Mark Krawscyk- thanks!)



Carlsson, Å. (1996) ‘Lövtäkt i Västergötland. Bondedagböckerna berättar’ Informal English translation Carlsson, 1700s-1800s Swedish farmer journals on leaf harvest

Hanson (2017): Tree Fodder for Livestock, for MOF&G

Garmo (1999) "Mineral content of tree and shrub leaves" Garmo on Leaf Nutrition

Fundación HAZI Fundazioa (2014?) "Notes on pollards; Best practices guide for pollarding" Basque Pollarding, Gipuzkoa & Navarra, Spain

Hanson (2015) Woodland Fodder Calendar

Byers (2016) "Tree Medicine from Goat Fodder: Using the Fruits, Barks, and Twigs of Our Labor" Tree Medicine

Servello (2016) Nutritional Ecology of Domestic Goats Using Woodland Forages in Maine - What Research on Wild Herbivores Tells Us Fred's browsing ecology of deer and goats

 Videos:
Agroforestry in Brazil, sent by Alison Houghton Life in Syntropy

Beeju Poudyal's video of Hima and child Bimarsha cutting tree leaf fodder for their cattle and goats in Nepal Poudyal 2017

Ernst Zurcher, "Chronobiology of Trees and the Fourth Phase of Water"

Juan Alvez, presentation for Tree Fodder Seminar 2019: Agro-Forest Ecosystem Studies in Brazil

3 Streams Farm Biochar Method: Open-burn Biochar Workshop (short)

Ned Lightener and Shana on How to Prune Apple Trees: Pruning (old) Apple Trees

Short Climate Video (Jan Pokorný, PhD)

Tap O' Noth Permaculture, Making Hay From Trees

The Poor Prole's Almanac with Shana about tree fodder: Episode 67 and Episode 68

Shana's presentations:


NOFA NH 2023: Livestock Want Browse: Doable Methods For Use of Wild Woody Perennials -- Presentation and Handout

NOFA NH 2022 Winter Conference: Tree Forages and Browse for Livestock Year-round

NOFA NH 2022: Tree Forages and Browse for Livestock Year-Round: Continued Learning at 3 Streams Farm -- Presentation and Handout

NOFA MA Jan. 2019 PowerPoint: Tree leaf fodder for Livestock and Climate Resilience

NOFA NH March 2019 Presentation: Tree Leaf Fodder for Livestock and Climate Resilience 

MOFGA Farmer to Farmer 2019: Extending the "Grazing*" Season; Tree Fodder and other Strategies, 10/4/19.

MOFGA Farmer to Farmer 2019: Part 1 & Part 2


Shana's pre-Tree Fodder Seminar Library Talk, 2016, with pictures inserted by Jenny Johnson: "Our Sustenance From Trees; A New Look At An Ancient Solution;" 

2015 Maine Primitive Skills School "Tree Pollarding" video with Shana

"Gathering Tree Fodder" by Katia Danilova and Jenny Johnson
* One comment taken out of context, becoming inaccurate, in this. ~Shana

Shan Hanson with Ned Lightner on Pollarding

More Videos & Talks on Shana Hanson's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeabXelBI4X61nNYlxvCvIg/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=0&view=0

Look for:
*Eliza Greenman's Tree Fodder Seminar talk (in many pieces- editing help welcome!)
*Dan Tansky on syruping various tree species
*Shana's Common Ground Fair Leaf Fodder talk (in many pieces; editing help welcome!)
*Green Foliage can Change Climate, parts 1 & 2 ) Sy Schotz and Shana Hanson, 2019
*Ivan Fernandez on Woodland Soils and Atmospheric Depositions, Tree Fodder Seminar 2019
*Moe Martin's Fruit and Nut Mountain, Tree Fodder Seminar 2018
*Many more clips of Tree Fodder Seminar events over the years (help to improve is welcome!) 

Goatsong: Music of Farmer Shana at 3 Streams Farm:


I am happy for anyone to learn and sing my songs (do give credit to Shana at 3 Streams Farm, if you perform).

The pics on the music videos are just my pocket camera having to point somewhere (mostly out my window).

I hope to polish up my reams of farm songs on goat walks, during the growing season. I will continue to record with this little camera, winter evenings soon, now that I know it works! (and on goat walks too once it's warm). So check the folder later - it may grow : )

Years ago I made the money to buy my land, by being a street musician. Must recover now from lack of venues during COVID! Enjoy. Sh