Dr. Eric Burkhart is a botanist, ethnobotanist, horticulturalist, and agroforester at Penn State, where he is Director of the Appalachian Botany and Ethnobotany Program at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management.

His research and education program in Pennsylvania is focused on developing sustainable wild stewardship and agroforestry production systems for speciality forest products including American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora), and ramps (Allium tricoccum).