Tag: Agroforestry

Join us in the agroforestry tent at Groundswell 2-3 July.

Giulia Zoe Kessous blogs on an inspiring day on the Fraser’s farm in Yorkshire exploring living mulches and discussing regenerative organic approaches

Unlock your farm’s potential with trees! 🌳 Visit the Agroforestry Tent at Groundswell for FREE, bespoke 1-2-1 design clinics.

Philippa Hall reflects on the 5th Agroforestry Open Weekend at Wakelyns in Suffolk.

Agricology/ORC/Oper8 event at Fraser farms focusing on living mulches, agroforestry and whole farm systems with Jonty Brunyee and the Frasers

Lindsay Whistance and Matt Smee will be running a workshop on ‘Tree Fodder – The Forgotten Feed’ at this ORFC event.

ORC joins forces with Woodland Trust, the Soil Association and Alba Trees to offer support in the Agroforestry Tent at Groundswell

ReForest has launched a new Digital Platform, an innovative space designed to promote agroforestry and drive sustainable land use.

The Agroforestry Open Weekend – celebrating the growing global community of agroforestry farms and farming

Webinar recording from ReForest discussing the application of the FarmTree Tool within the UK Living Lab

This article by Colin Tosh and Jo Smith uses a novel method to model the interacting agroecosystem components in English silvoarable agroforestry.

Share experiences and ideas that can be put together into the beginnings of an action and research agenda.

From silvohorticulture, silvoarable and silvopasture to soil health and tree maintenance, join us at ORFC in the Field at Wakelyns, where you will be tutored by some of the country’s leading experts in agroforestry. 

Teagasc webinar featuring Lindsay Whistance

Join Innovative Farmers for the latest feeding willow to livestock network webinar.

New study showed bat activity and foraging success was highest in grazed but not arable agroforestry systems and tree age contributed strongly to habitat value.

This has been another action-packed year for ORC, marked by a wealth of activity that has broadened our networks and opened up significant opportunities.

Defra has paused applications for new capital grants for agroforestry due to overwhelming demand.

The Nature Friendly Farming Network and Woodland Trust are hosting a follow-up webinar to the very popular Groundswell session looking at how dairy farms are planning for extreme weather events.

Three new factsheets have been produced by the Woodland Trust with the help of ORC’s Lindsay Whistance.

ORC’s Principal Agroforestry Researcher, Will Simonson reflects on the achievements of the AGROMIX project as it comes to an end.

Watch this Pasture for Life webinar for a deep dive into the ReForest Project and an exploration of agroforestry’s potential to contribute towards UK food system sustainability.

AGROMIX has published a white paper, “Transforming European Food Systems with Agroforestry”, outlining five key policy recommendations

New paper from Agromix project suggests that silvoarable researchers should be focusing on how trees impact plant pathogen dynamics