AGROFORESTRY IN APPALACHIA - Laurel Fork Sapsuckers - A Case Study By The

And I Laurel Fork Sapsuckers grew out of a family-owned farm told the family, I said, ‘I think if we build a that began 70 years ago, when Missy Moyers-Jarrells’ sugar camp and invite the public to come grandparents purchased 600 acres of woodlands and see the farm, during the maple festival, it pasture in Hightown, Virginia. [...] It quickly The aim, said Ronnie, is not to keep growing bigger became a community event as people stopped by to talk and bigger, producing more and more maple syrup, and share their own memories of making syrup and the but to make enough to pay the taxes on the land, many ways there are to use it. [...] They have opened their through the farm, and the yellow-bellied sapsucker, a farm to the public for a variety of uses, including as a species of woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varius). [...] The the sapsucker, seeking to satisfy its need for insects, names for places on the farm are thresholds to its taps holes in the back of sugar maple trees, the sap history. [...] There is decades the farm will be designated as a “centennial a resonance between the lure set up by the sapsucker, farm” - that has been owned and operated as a farm designed to attract insects, and the sugar camps that for over 100 years.