SilvoCulture is thrilled to be partnering with Mount Saint Mary’s. On November 7th, SilvoCulture held a workshop at Good Soil Farm LLC, a farm operated by the Mount’s Professor Stephen McGinley who teaches within the agro-forestry program. Michael Judd led the workshop, teaching students about holistic landscape design, passive water harvest, and economically viable tree crops such as chestnuts. Students learned how to mark out a line on contour and then hand-dug a swale, which is a basin followed by a berm for absorbing water into the landscape. Trees planted on the berm or downhill from it have more consistent access to water, making plantings more resilient in drought, as well as decreasing rainwater run-off pollution into our waterways.