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Deliberate cultivation of an understory specialty crop beneath a forest canopy that has been modified and managed to provide the appropriate microclimate conditions in the understory is an example of forest farming (e.g., woods cultivated or wild simulated ginseng). The practice is created by design, is intensively managed, is integrated, and beneficial interactions are utilized. Thus, it is agroforestry, as contrasted to the gathering of naturally‐occurring, unmanaged, specialty products (e.g., wild ginseng) from a natural forest stand.

Log‐grown shiitake mushrooms, deliberately cultivated under the shade of the forest canopy is a legitimate forest farming practice. The practice is created by design, is intensively managed, is integrated, and beneficial interactions are utilized. Thus, it is agroforestry, in contrast to the production of shiitake on indoor sawdust bales which yields a similar (but not nutritionally identical) product but does not qualify as forest farming.