Innovative Strategies to Restore Degraded Riparian Forested Buffers

Tour a next-level socio-ecological reconciliation project from critical source to watershed. Based on a six-year pilot program at Shelburne Farms, this project aims to mitigate phosphorus pollution, increase pollinator habitat, facilitate Abenaki land access, foster local ecoliteracy, and restore degraded riparian forested buffers. We’ll share results from the current study along with site history, methodology, socio-ecological reconciliation principles, and community collaborations, and contextualize this work within the larger restoration and regenerative agriculture movements.