Stromback Land Regeneration's
Past and Current Projects
Mark Shepard's RAD
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Long Future Farms
Sun Hazel Farm
Reforesters Farm
Long Future Farms (NY, USA)
Overseeing and Installing Infrastructure Improvements: Road improvements, employee housing, water management systems, well installation, house renovations, livestock resources (e.g., chicken brooder & tractors), geodesic dome construction, permanent livestock fencing, deer fencing, etc.
Farm Planning, Design and Install: Water management and tree planting, roadways, etc.
Managing Farm Team: Task lists, deadlines, employee housing, basic HR work, etc.
Soil Health: Cover cropping, mulching, compost extracts and aerobic composting.
Media Work: SLR manages Long Future Farms's social media pages, NY forest farm store and takes care of drone imagery.
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In 2023 SLR was hired to manage both farms totaling 400 acres.
Mark Shepard's RAD (USA)
Water Management and Tree System Design/Install
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SLR was hired to assist on the design and installation of tree/shrub, swale, berm and pond systems to improve hydrology, and climate resilience of farms across the USA (e.g., Arkansas, Idaho, Michigan, New York, etc.).
Additionally, SLR helped with generating tree species lists for multi-story plantings, social media, coordinating projects, and assisting with logistics.
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SLR has assisted in 9 large-scale water management design and installation projects across the US for RAD.
Sun Hazel Farm (NY, USA)
Land Purchase and Farm Management​
SLR oversaw the purchase of Sun Hazel Farm in Cobleskill, NY, and is now managing it. This is the largest contiguous hazelnut planting in the North East and is an open-air pollinated hazelnut, mass-selected breeding site as well as a future source for marketable hazelnuts. Together with friends and partners, we took a beat up piece of land that had been in GMO corn and are regenerating it with hybrid hazelnut shrubs, pollinator habitat, soil remediation, and cover cropping.
We aim to have it be a future source for locally adapted, cold hardy, precocious, hazelnut genetics that can go out to nurseries in order to help the regional climate resilient and nutrient-dense perennial food industry.
Ben's work prior to SLR
Ecosystem Restoration Communities
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Prior to the formation of SLR, Ben spent his time working as an educator and facilitator on the Ecosystem Restoration Design course. He also edited videos, found context-specific consultants and volunteers for international ecosystem restoration efforts such as (Contour Lines Co (Guatemala), SEKEM (Egypt), Mainsprings (Tanzania), Virsoleil, Boma Ikolojia (Kenya), Sandele Foundation (The Gambia).
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Reforesters Farm (Delhi, USA)
Forest Foods & Farm Development Consulting
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After working together at a Dutch Ecosystem Restoration non-profit, Reforesters hired SLR to find land upon which to install one of the largest mixed species agroforestry and swale/berm/pond water management systems in North America.
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As the newly planted hazelnuts, chestnuts, persimmon, paw paw, and thornless honey locusts establish, SLR helps develop Reforesters Brooklyn into a commercial space for forest foods and human health. SLR is also designing and installing a dense and native Miyawaki forest on the farm while assiting with R&D.
