Forest Products

This spreadsheet presents a sample budget for a ginseng enterprise venture.

This publication outlines ginseng production methods, skills, knowledge, and equipment needed, and marketing concerns.

This spreadsheet presents a sample budget for a Christmas tree farm enterprise venture.

This publication outlines Christmas tree production methods, skills, knowledge, and equipment needed, and marketing concerns.

This Excel spreadsheet presents a sample budget for an shiitake mushroom enterprise venture.

This Excel spreadsheet presents a sample budget for an shiitake mushroom enterprise venture.

Shiitake mushrooms are specialty mushrooms with a distinctive flavor that are grown on oak logs. This publication outlines methods for cultivating, growing, and marketing shiitake mushrooms.

The shiitake is a large, umbrella-shaped mushroom that is dark brown and is prized both for its culinary and medicinal properties. Proven medicinal benefits include antiviral, antifungal, and anti-tumor effects. This publication outlines methods for those interested in shiitake mushroom production.

The aim of this guide is to supply the method and the tools that will enable you to use a decision­-making process when considering starting nontraditional enterprises to take advantage of renewable natural resources, such as forests, wildlife, water, and cropland.

Portable sawmills have become an attractive enterprise option in recent years. With improved technology, a small unit run by one or two persons can economically produce high-quality lumber. This guide reviews key considerations when investigating options to develop a portable sawmill enterprise.