The demand continues to rise globally for natural health products. Many of these products have ingredients that are derived from the forest or medicinal plants. The current changes in growing seasons and other climate-related issues have made growing medicinal plants in a greenhouse environment very favorable. In addition, new cultivating systems and automated controls create incentives to bring streamlined operations to the forefront.
It is for these reasons that International Research Teaching Forests aspires to develop partnerships with greenhouse experts to experiment with growing plants on-site. These plants would be ideally part of the local natural environment and could be supplied to remediators requiring supplies as part of industrial environmental reclamation scenarios.
Further aspiration is to model from the Cornell University, New York state operation by developing a modest arboretum available for viewing by future educational tour participants.
Plantation Goals for Glendale, Unama’ki, Nova Scotia, Canada
2025 goals for International Research Teaching Forests Incorporated are to establish and monitor several small orchards of Nut, Fruit, Maple & Birch in Glendale, Nova Scotia Canada.
Source for Nova Scotia saplings:
Experienced Advisor, Community Facilitator, Mashup Lab Advisor, Co-Owner Floreren Farm, Paul Wartman
University of Guelph
Masters of Science, Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture
Agroecology, people-based ethics, forest garden systems
University of Guelph
B.Sc, Environmental Toxicology, and Local Food Systems B.Sc.,
Activities and societies: Sustainable Food Systems, Organic Agriculture, Sustainable Communities, Agroforestry, Soil Science, and Plant and Soil Relationships
Image Source: Nursery Paul Wartman
Image Source: Herbs Ilana Vanderweit