Meghan Giroux

Interlace Commons

Meghan is an agroforestry practitioner, service provider, and researcher with two decades of experience growing perennial crops in agricultural and nursery settings. Through her company, Interlace Agroforestry Farm LLC, and funding support from the USDA and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Meghan is developing a sixty-acre demonstration site that exemplifies ancient and modern forms of agroforestry, including the five USDA-defined practices. Meghan is the co-author of two forthcoming manuals on agroforestry. She has been a visiting lecturer at Yale School of the Environment, where she taught the science and practice of temperate agroforestry. She is committed to using her natural resource management background to help land stewards protect and improve ecosystem function, increase biodiversity, and identify ways to enhance land-based livelihood strategies.