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The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest charity championing native woods and trees. The Trust is dedicated to incorporating trees and small woods into existing farm management practices to help support a more sustainable and productive agricultural sector.
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Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through diversity
Resource
A revised new edition of this publication explaining the on-farm research carried out at the innovative and pioneering Wakelyns.
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Don’t miss the UK’s first Agroforestry Show – it’ll be TREEmendous!
Blog Post
Don’t miss the TREEmendous occasion that is the UK’s first agroforestry show on 6-7th September in Wiltshire.
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Seeking your views of ‘trees outside woods’ on your farm!
Blog Post
Do you have hedgerows, treelines, scattered trees, or scrub on your farm? We want to learn from farmers about the benefits and challenges of managing these ‘trees outside woods’ and have compiled a short online survey to capture your views.
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Farming with trees: a potential ‘win-win’ for sustainable food production and biodiversity?
Resource
Summary highlighting outcomes of Tom Staton's PhD thesis ‘Evaluating the effects of agroforestry versus arable systems on functional biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.’
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How can agroforestry contribute towards biodiversity conservation?
Resource
Recording of a workshop hosted by the Organic Research Centre online that set out to explore how agroforestry could contribute towards the conservation and restoration of biodiversity, and the policy options that could support the realisation of these benefits.
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Trees on hen ranges are a haven for wildlife
Resource
Can planting trees on your hen range boost biodiversity as well as benefit your business?
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Tree: crop interactions in UK alley cropping agroforestry systems: impacts on crop yield and total productivity
Resource
Report on studies carried out within an organic silvoarable alley cropping system in the UK (Wakelyns Agroforestry in Suffolk) where researchers have investigated the impact of trees on crops in adjacent alleys.
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A National Network of Agroforestry Farms
Research Project
This 'Farming the Future' A Team Foundation - funded project aims to promote agroforestry as a way of farmers and landowners simultaneously and sustainably growing food, transitioning into the new ELM Scheme and contributing to ‘public goods.’ It showcases farms and initiatives across the UK successfully balancing these objectives to share knowledge and evidence of the value of agroforestry...
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The Agroforestry ELM Test project: Transforming the English agricultural landscape with trees
Blog Post
Interest among UK farmers in planting trees on their land has skyrocketed recently. Only ten years ago a survey indicated that very few farmers know what the term “agroforestry” means. One conducted least year showed that almost all farmers are familiar with it now.
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Tree leaves as supplementary feed for ruminant livestock
Resource
This briefing examines the role of silvopastoral agroforestry in providing livestock with nutrients via tree browse, alongside the many other benefits of trees.
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Elm Farm: Planning and developing agroforestry at a farm scale
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Research briefing outlines the planning, establishment and management of different agroforestry approaches as experienced at Elm Farm, an organic livestock farm in Berkshire.
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The Agroforestry Handbook
Resource
Assess the potential business benefits of agroforestry for your farm or client and understand the possible benefits to the wider environment with this invaluable handbook.