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Lucy MacLennan's Christmas message 2023 with photo highlights of ORC's year
The Agroforestry Open Weekend is back in 2023 - May 19th to 21st - and it's bigger than ever, with more than 35 farms taking part from the UK, Ireland and beyond!
Looking to integrate trees into your farming business but don’t know which trees to plant, how many, or where? Unsure about fencing, or how to market your tree products?
The Irish Agroforestry Forum is bringing together a diversity of expert voices, both national and international, to discuss and highlight the multi-faceted benefits that trees can bring to farms and the wider environment.
Farm Woodland Forum meeting
Evaluating the effects of integrating trees into temperate arable systems on pest control and pollination
Nature and soil health are flourishing at the National Trust’s organic farm
Would you like to get to know the ORC staff, learn more about what they are working on at the moment and find out what inspired them to pursue a career in organic research? To help celebrate our 40th anniversary year and throughout 2021 we will be releasing short ‘ten minutes with’ interviews to let you do just that! The first is with Colin Tosh, ORC’s Senior Agroforestry Researcher and and can be read below. ...
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Wendy Seel of Vital Veg in North East Scotland talks about her passion for trees and why she has planted shelter belts, hedges and agroforestry strips on her organic horticultural holding. It protects her young vegetable transplants form wind and helps, establishment and provides habitat for beneficial insects.The trees will also provide additional income in terms of rowan berries and elderflower/berries for processing. She explains the benefits and the downsides, in terms of extra management needed, plus the help she has received from the Woodland Trust.
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Workshop report from David Rose's Farm
