Overview

Agriculture and biodiversity are often pitted against each other as working towards opposite ends. Farmscape Ecology has been presented as a way to bring these two normally opposing forces together to increase biodiversity on agricultural lands while improving agricultural yields.   Areas of farms such as woodlots, hedgerows, wet meadows, old fields or pastures, ponds, and vernal-pools provide prime habitat for diverse native species.  This case examines the Farmscape Ecology Program at Hawthorne Valley Farm in the Hudson River Valley of New York State.