Mulch encompasses anything laid onto the soil to protect and insulate it. Mulch can be many different materials such as plastic, wood chips, straw, landscape fabric, hay, and so on. The benefits of mulch include 💧 moisture retention, 🌱 weed seed germination suppression, and 🧥

For our next #WeedWednesday, let's turn our attention to Marestail (Conyza canadensis), also known as Horseweed! 🐴 This native annual can be a significant challenge, especially in no-till systems and disturbed areas. What makes it tricky? Its prolific seed production (up to

A couple of days ago, we talked about how mulching can help improve project success. However, mulch can be expensive and labor intensive to apply. 🚜 Our Nobili mower helps us mulch the crop rows at our client farms using the grasses we plant in the drive lanes. While in most

CHESTNUT UPDATE 🌰➡️🌿 Remember our chestnut seeding video earlier this year? The trees are getting big under the diligent care of our nursery manager, Connor! Here he is sharing information on how we ensure our trees are healthy and ready for your next project. We will announce

WI Agroforestry Demo Farm Network Monthly Meet Up August 14 @ 1:00 pm Virtual Event The format of these monthly meetings will switch off every other month. In March, May, July, September, and November, participants are encouraged to bring their “pesky problems” to the group to

WI Agroforestry Demonstration Farm Network: Cassell Hollow Farm Tour August 26 @ 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm La Farge Wisconsin Graham Cassellius of Cassell Hollow Farm will host this field day focused on agritourism and hazelnuts. Guests who want to participate in an in-depth workshop

Twilight Tailgate with the Trees: End of Summer Celebration August 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Urbana Illinois Only one Tailgate at the farm this year! Let’s celebrate the start of the school year with a shin-dig at the Savanna Institute Demo Farm! Come see one of our Canopy

A very important tool in our weed management toolkit is our cultivator, a tool commonly used in organic production. Cultivation of weeds in crop rows should be done roughly every 2 weeks during the growing season, depending on weather and weed pressure. The rolling spider gangs

For this #WeedWednesday, let's address some of the most persistent annual grass weeds impacting orchards and prairie/pollinator habitats across the midwest! Beyond the familiar Foxtail grasses (Yellow, Green, Giant), we're often battling species like Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa

Twilight Tailgate with the Trees: End of Summer Celebration August 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Urbana Illinois Only one Tailgate at the farm this year! Let’s celebrate the start of the school year with a shin-dig at the Savanna Institute Demo Farm! Come see one of our Canopy

Sometimes pesky weeds break through in crop rows and need to be removed. Stirrup hoeing and string trimming are tools to help manage perennial crops. These are precision instruments compared to larger mowers and cultivators. They allow us to get very close to crop plants with

Check out this update from Red Fern Farm in Iowa about their bumper crop of chestnuts this year! Our friends, Tom Wahl and Kathy Dice of Red Fern Farm, are pioneers of the chestnut industry in the Midwest. Canopy works in close partnership with Red Fern to source the highest

🌱 Canopy Nursery Spring 2026 Nursery Orders Are Now Open! It’s been a great growing season in the nursery and we have the best crop of trees we’ve ever had! We're offering affordable trees with high quality genetics in collaboration with Savanna Institute's Tree Crop

We love getting updates from our customers! Have you ordered trees from us? We would love to hear how they are doing!

🦌 UPGRADE YOUR FOOD PLOTS 🦌 Plant this spring & hunt better for years to come. Want to create the ultimate deer magnet? Skip the generic chestnut and persimmon seedlings and plant trees that actually deliver results. Smart hunters know: the best food plots start with the best

Tom Wahl and Kathy Dice planted their first chestnut trees in 1990 at Red Fern Farm, located in Southeastern Iowa, a region known for weather extremes. Their trees have survived a -37 degree cold snap, a derecho, drought and flooding. These are some resilient trees! For seed

We love Black Currants! Their ease of growth, high yields, and rich flavor make them a must have for both backyard berries and commercial operations. We offer bareroot bundles of 25 plants that have large robust root systems. Don’t be surprised if you get fruit the first season

Our fall digging and planting season kicked off a couple of weeks ago in WI! This fall we’re planting about 60,000 berry plants and fruit trees from our nursery at a farm nearby that we long term lease. We usually start the day digging in the nursery and then finish the day

Genetics make a huge difference in the success of your chestnut planting. Not sure where to start with all the types of Chestnut seedlings that are available? We recommend Qing half-sib seedlings more often than any other Chestnut seedling we grow. For many years, Qing has set