Hey folks, welcome back. This is Andy with the Poor Proz Almanac. In the next two episodes, we'll be chatting with Brett Chedzoi,

an incredibly busy man who holds multiple positions around agriculture, starting with a position

of senior resource educator with the South Central New York Agricultural Team, the forest manager

for Cornell University's 4,200-acre teaching and research forest,

while also teaching through the Cornell Cooperative Extension School and running Angus Glen Farms,

a half-silvo pasture project spanning over 300 acres.

Fortunately, he found some time to sit down and talk with us about silver pasture,

specifically around the lessons

of applying theory and practice and working within local conditions. We talk a bit about forestry,

ecology, climate change, and livestock. If you're not familiar with Silvo Pasture, I really

recommend listening to the previous episode where we outlined the foundations for it,

or you could just listen to our chat here and see if you'd like to dive in a little deeper

to the subject after listening to this conversation.

With that said, let's dive in.

Brett, thanks so much for taking some time to chat with us about this subject.

For folks that aren't familiar with your work, could you tell us a little bit about yourself,

your farm, and your teaching?

Andy, I'm a forester.

I work for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Skylar County.

I work regionally and both forestry education, but also enjoy doing a lot of things

related to ag education, particularly around grazing and agroforestry. My wife likes to jokingly say

that my other full-time job is the farm. Our family has grazing farms both here in upstate

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