Sun Journal advances nontimber forest products workshop
The Sun Journal reported the Oxford County Soil & Water Conservation District will hold the workshop “Non-Timber Forest Products and Your Maine Woods: Possibilities and Challenges” from 10 a.m. to noon March 9 at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Office in Paris. The program will be led by David Fuller, an agricultural and nontimber forest products professional with UMaine Extension. Fuller works with farmers and other woodlot owners to realize income from nontimber forest products including fiber, food, herbs and medicinals, according to the article. Participants will learn what they can make or use from products such as fiddleheads, spruce gum, birch bark, maple sap and balsam fir.