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Parliamentary wake up call for putting trees at the heart of agriculture
Farmers in the UK, for the first time, are getting the chance to co-design research to determine the benefits of integrating more trees on their farms. A farmer-led agroforestry project launching this month will spend the next twelve years investigating whether the practice is a viable way to address the climate and nature crises while maintaining productive farmland. The new field lab, involving seven farms in Devon, will be the largest participatory research project to ...
Livestock farmers set to discover how trees can grow their business
New research has shown willow trees could be used to optimise production in lambs because it has particularly high concentrations of cobalt and zinc
Report from the REFOREST North of England Agroforestry Living Lab meet up at the beautiful Gowbarrow Hall Farm in the Lake District, hosted by Sam and Claire Beaumont.
Report from Wakelyns Agroforestry workshop
Report from workshop at Tolhurst Organics
The fifth European conference on agroforestry, EURAF 2020, was held online recently (17th – 19th May 2021) and ORC was represented by Colin Tosh, Will Simonson and Lindsay Whistance. This conference was postponed in 2020 due to the Covid crisis and some of the branding and infrastructure from preparations for the 2020 conference spilled over into the 2021 meeting, but this caused little confusion and this hugely complex online event was executed admirably by the ...
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Key research questions The importance of agroforestry Agroforestry is a concept of integrated land use that combines elements of agriculture and forestry in a sustainable production system. In its simplest form, agroforestry can be described as ‘growing trees on farms’ and includes the integration, both ecologically and economically, of the woody elements that may already be present in agricultural landscapes, such as hedgerows, windbreaks, buffer zones, trees in pasture, and small woodlands. At a greater ...
Radical farm makeover – George Young, Curtis Farm Under conversion since autumn 2020 Getting to Curtis Farm isn’t easy, at least not when you take the wrong exit in the maze of motorway intersections and end up navigating the interlinked roundabouts in Basildon that seem to literally take you round in circles. Standing at the farm gate you can make out the industrial units and the cranes of the London Gateway Port on the horizon ...
