Farm Woodland Forum annual meeting at ORC

Posted on 28th May 2015

by organicresearchcentre

This year’s annual meeting of the Farm Woodland Forum was held at the Organic Research Centre, Elm Farm near Newbury, Berkshire on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th May.

The theme was Woodfuel from Agroforestry. Based on the Organic Research Centre’s Elm Farm, near Newbury, the meeting included a tour of the various agroforestry demonstrations including managing hedgerows for bioenergy production, a short rotation coppice silvopastoral system and some new hedgerow and parkland plantings.

Presentations and handouts are below

• Agroforestry regulations – Northern Ireland (314kb pdf file)
• Agroforestry Education in Europe (1.2mb pdf file)
• The Evolution of Forestry Owner Groups in Ireland (6.5mb pdf file)
• How much additional biomass carbon does Ivy (Hedera Helix) contribute to woodlands? (1.8mb pdf file)
• Management of ash in Ireland in the light of ash dieback (3.4mb pdf file)
• Alley cropping: An alternative land-use system (4.1mb pdf file)
• Understanding and measuring development impact in interventions involving agroforestry and bioenergy (5.7mb pdf file)
• Quantifying agroforestry in Europe with a focus on the UK (5.4mb pdf file)
• Agroforestry at the Organic Research Centre Presentation (5mb pdf file)
• Agroforestry options in Scotland (71kb pdf file)
• Domestic firewood in Wales: where does it come from and how much energy does it generate? (2.3mb pdf file)
• Agroforestry policies in the EU (8.08mb pdf file)
• Agroforestry and the Afforestation Programme in The Republic of Ireland (4.3mb pdf file)
• Abstracts for pack (208kb pdf file)
• Agroforestry at the Organic Research Centre Handout (1.53mb pdf file)
• TWECOM – hedges at ORC May 2015 (0.99mb pdf file)

View photos from the event here