Silver Run Forest Farm presentation for the Agroforestry Coalition's Nurseries Working Group

The Agroforestry Coalition's Nurseries Working Group heard from Jonathan McRay with Silver Run Forest Farms on 6/25/26. Silver Run Forest Farm: https://silverrunforestfarm.org/ Agroforestry Coalition Nurseries Working Group: https://agroforestrycoalition.org/wor... Agroforestry Nurseries Directory: https://agroforestrycoalition.org/nur... 0:00 — Introduction to Jonathan and Silver Run Forest Farm 1:41 — What is Community Solidarity Agroforestry? 2:55 — Silver Run’s origins, cooperative vision, and food sovereignty mission 5:06 — How the Community Solidarity Agroforestry model began 6:19 — Redistributing surplus trees through community networks 7:34 — Giving away 15,000+ trees and funding generosity 9:37 — Tree species and the nursery’s collection 13:20 — Bioregional propagation and selecting locally adapted trees 14:25 — Finding exceptional local trees and propagating them from cuttings 15:20 — Low-cost materials, reused supplies, and shipping trees 18:50 — Sharing trees internationally and experimenting with air-prune beds in Palestine 20:23 — Identifying barriers to agroforestry and listening to farmers 21:01 — Farmer and nursery-grower interviews: what people need to plant more trees 22:14 — Nurseries as community anchors for agroforestry networks 22:59 — Coordinating six nurseries to distribute 5,000 trees to nearly 40 farms 24:23 — Building a culture of trees, shared learning, and cooperative infrastructure 25:44 — Helping recipients establish new community and commercial nurseries 27:06 — Q and A begins 28:14 — How to build and use air-prune beds 30:32 — How long Silver Run and the Mycena initiative have been operating 32:25 — Starting a nursery: land access, early customers, and funding 35:55 — Why the community-distribution model resonates with growers 36:29 — Nursery operations and species-specific questions 46:25 — Learning propagation techniques and overcoming knowledge gaps 48:03 — Partnerships, local collaboration, and the next stage of nursery development 1:06:34 — Researching the history and provenance of remarkable trees 1:09:12 — Underrated agroforestry species and the role of support trees 1:11:26 — Nursery infrastructure improvements and practical growing innovations 1:13:32 — Scaling up seed processing with simple, inexpensive equipment 1:15:20 — What a greenhouse could contribute to a predominantly outdoor nursery 1:17:20 — Commons governance, collective decision-making, and community land stewardship 1:18:50 — Sociocracy, cooperative structures, and governing shared resources 1:21:02 — Operating agreements, responsibilities, and conflict transformation 1:23:03 — Closing reflections and agroforestry nursery resources