Field tree production. Photo credit – Hillier Tree Nursery/Ben Lee/WTML

Strong Roots

Report from the Strong Roots project which investigated key challenges facing domestic tree production, across all types, from amenity and retail to fruit, nut, and forestry.

Read more »
Agroforestry show

Agroforestry Takes Centre Stage in Conversations Surrounding the Future of Farming  

Janie Caldbeck and Alice Farmery provide an overview of the second Agroforestry Show in which they share their personal reflections and observations.

Read more »
In-field trees in the landscape: Copyright: Woodland Trust

Alley planting, Shelterbelts and In-field Trees

Three leaflets from the Woodland Trust aimed at livestock farmers wanting to make the most of trees on the farm.

Read more »
Trees_TimDownes

Future Proofing Dairy Farms Through Landscape Design

This Groundswell 2024 session explored the role and challenges of incorporating trees into dairy farming systems.

Read more »
Niels soil

Weatherproof Farming Part 2. Implementation: Towards Subsidy-Free Farming

Increase resilience to extreme weather, increase profits and maintain yields. A collaboration between NFFN Cymru and The Woodland Trust.

Read more »
Cattle-taking-shelter-photo-credit-Lynbreck-Croft

Potential Role of Trees on a Dartmoor Farm

Come along to Hall Farm in Harford for this Woodland Trust event and learn how trees can be incorporated into Dartmoor farms

Read more »
Wakelyns Agroforestry. Photo credit: Maja Lindstrom

Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through diversity

A revised new edition of this publication explaining the on-farm research carried out at the innovative and pioneering Wakelyns.

Read more »
Fruit ripening after cereal harvest. Single row fruit based silvoarable scheme on 24m wide alleys in Nottinghamshire. Credit: Helen Chesshire/WTML. All Rights Reserved

Don’t miss the UK’s first Agroforestry Show – it’ll be TREEmendous!

Don’t miss the TREEmendous occasion that is the UK’s first agroforestry show on 6-7th September in Wiltshire.

Read more »
picture-1064-1487870561.jpg

Stuart Holm

Stuart Holm is an Outreach Manager with the Woodland Trust, working with farmers and landowners to encourage tree planting.

Read more »
Helen Chesshire

Helen Chesshire

I am the Woodland Trust’s Lead Farming Advocate helping to raise the profile and uptake of agroforestry.  

Read more »
David Brass and his free range hens in their woodland range. Photo credit: Phil Formby, Woodland Trust Media Library. All Rights Reserved

Trees on hen ranges are a haven for wildlife

Can planting trees on your hen range boost biodiversity as well as benefit your business?

Read more »
Tree crop interactions Wakelyns

Tree: crop interactions in UK alley cropping agroforestry systems: impacts on crop yield and total productivity

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.

Read more »
Agroforestry at GWCT Allerton Project

A National Network of Agroforestry Farms

This ‘Farming the Future’ A Team Foundation – funded project aimed 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.’

Read more »
Wakelyns agroforestry

The Agroforestry ELM Test project: Transforming the English agricultural landscape with trees

Senior ORC Researcher Colin Tosh introduces a research project designed to investigate barriers to the uptake of agroforestry by farmers.

Read more »
Cattle browsing

Tree leaves as supplementary feed for ruminant livestock

This briefing examines the role of silvopastoral agroforestry in providing livestock with nutrients via tree browse, alongside the many other benefits of trees.

Read more »
Elm Farm, Berkshire UK silvopasture woodchip plots August 2012

Elm Farm: Planning and developing agroforestry at a farm scale

Research briefing outlines the planning, establishment and management of different agroforestry approaches as experienced at Elm Farm, an organic livestock farm in Berkshire.

Read more »
Rural landscape

Future of Land Management: webinar series

Jessica Brooks from the GWCT introduces a webinar series aiming to explain and join up the new thinking in the land management sector and present new, innovative ideas.

Read more »
Agroforestry at Wakelyns

The Agroforestry Handbook

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.

Read more »

Could farming with trees help to control pests and boost pollinators?

Tom Staton discusses the initial indicators that farming with trees could help to boost pollinators and help to control pests

Read more »
Insect monitoring in Silvoarable agroforestry

Examining the impacts of integrating trees into arable fields on pest control and pollination

Design and manage agroforestry in arable systems so that the biodiversity benefits are maximised and problems are reduced.

Read more »
groundswell 2018

Agricology Discussions @ Groundswell!

A summary of the discussions to be held in the Agricology Discussion Tent at Groundswell 2019

Read more »
Chickens at Daylesford

Enterprise Stacking & Agroforestry; Chickens, Orchards, Biomass & Market Gardens

In this short vlog Tim Field discusses using a Woodland Trust grant to plant 800 trees on a field which currently comprises of established chicken ranges.

Read more »

Shelterbelts can protect soil against erosion

A Woodland Trust case study highlighting how trees and shrubs can be vital for arable farms, helping to protect topsoil against erosion from wind and rain.

Read more »
Credit-Andy-Tryner-WTML

Managing your on-farm woodland

Stuart Holm from the Woodland Trust provides practical management advice for the woodland trees on your farm.

Read more »
To top