Plant The Trees
Episodes
Bear, Lynx, Goshawks, and 350 Beaver Dams per Sq. Mile: Forest Management and Biodiversity — With Ethan Tapper
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re planting all of these trees, many of which carry the goal of ecological benefit: conservation, regeneration, fish, wildlife, water quality, fl...
Machinery for Agroforestry — with Darren J. Doherty
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Darren J. Doherty, founder of Regrarians, is a pioneer in modern regenerative agriculture and agroforestry in the anglosphere and beyond. He’s plann...
Mechanizing Agroforestry — with Bob Walker
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you further mechanize tree planting? Where are the leverage points? How do you get the trees on a perfect grid or a Keyline grid, at inch-accur...
Multi-Generational Capital, Family Business, and Agroforestry – with Jeremy Kaufman
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Kaufman, together with our CEO Ethan Steinberg, and I, started working on Propagate in 2016. 10 years later, we have some insight into planting...
Multi-Generational Chestnut Ecosystems – with Dr. Amy Miller
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one thing to plant trees. And stewarding a chestnut ecosystem is a multigenerational endeavor. Today we’ll dive into chestnut yields, harvest...
Trees for Beginners: 5 Perennials for Fruit, Timber, Starch, and Winter Florals
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Before you plant apples, blueberries, and black walnut, try these 5 species instead. I started out 15 years ago planting black walnut and apples, bec...
Funding Agroforestry – The myriad ways of paying for trees, and the unspoken reality of how the dollars flow.
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How are we paying for trees? How are you paying for trees?At the end of the day, there is no free lunch. We’re either paying with our time, or payin...
Hickory Oil and Damp Soil — with Jesse Marksohn of Yellowbud Farm
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Farmland is often considered marginal because it’s rocky, steep, or because the soils are too shallow. But in much of the northeast and midwest, far...
Trees for Rural Economies: The United Nations, Türkiye, and Robinia – With İsmail Belen and Márton Németh
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Global perspectives on forest-driven economies. It’s easy to confine ourselves and our thinking to our own countries, states, and bioregions. But we...
Syntropic Food Forests in New Zealand and Beyond, With Byron Grows
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Byron and I first encountered syntropic agroforestry in the same way. There was a stunning documentary released in 2014 called Life in Syntropy. It pr...
200+ Acres of Productive Chestnuts! Managing a Multigenerational Farm in Ohio, with Julie Richards
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Richards stewards the operations of Ohio Chestnuts and Wintergreen Tree Farm. 200+ acres of chestnuts produce great food for real people, while ...
50 Years of Commercial Chestnuts, with Greg Miller
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
t’s 1972. Led Zeppelin IV just hit the airwaves, and Greg Miller is planting chestnut trees as a junior in high school. With time on his side, he go...
Agroforestry and Personality: Planting The Right Trees For The Right People
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do agroforestry-interested land managers have in common? And how do they differ? Are they open minded and risk averse? Are they extroverted and o...
Chestnuts and Food For the Future
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Wallack, founder of Breadtree, joins us to talk chestnuts and perennial pantry stables.Breadtree farms on 800 acres in the Upper Hudson Valley...
Can Agroforestry Feed the World?
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Planting trees? On farmland? But what about feeding the world? There’s a lot wrapped up in this question, and we’re here to bring you the framewor...
Market Development for a Heritage Agroforestry Crop – Breadfruit in Hawaiʻi
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a listen to this phenomenal interview with Dana Shapiro, CEO of the Hawai‘i Ulu Cooperative. Ulu is the Hawaiian word for Breadfruit, which is ...
Silvopasture, Heat Stress, and Fast-Growing Trees
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Austin Unruh of Trees For Graziers, who is a silvopasture and agroforestry practitioner who I’ve known for about seven years now....
Silvopasture in Argentina
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silvopasture is the intentional integration of trees, forage, and livestock, and Northern Argentina boasts over 200,000 acres of plantation silvopastu...
The Climates and Agroforestry of Argentina
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Argentina is full of agroforestry. From 200,000 acres of silvopasture across the northeast, to thousands of miles of windbreaks in Patagonia, to shade...
The Regrarians Platform and Regenerative Agriculture across Climates, with Darren Doherty
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here we have our first Australian on the Plant The Trees Podcast.I first met Darren Doherty at a Keyline agroforestry course in Iowa City in 2014. Bac...
Silvanus Forestry Shares Decades of Insights
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we try to transform the world’s distressed or abandoned farmland, we'll come across a massive leverage point. That can be a new technology...
Black Locust in Hungary
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve traveled to Hungary on five separate occasions, to learn more about black locust silviculture. Hungary grows 1 million acres of locust dominant...
36 years of Silvopasture Intel, with Brett Chedzoy
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The key to healthier livestock, resilient farms, and strong rural economies is found where trees and livestock intersect.Today’s guest has spent ove...
All About Black Locust, An Introduction
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, is extremely unique. It’s the only fast-growing rot-resistant hardwood, native to the eastern United States. In ...
Coming Soon — Plant The Trees Podcast!
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Plant The Trees podcast! You may have heard that money doesn't grow on trees, but it totally does through a practice called agrofo...