Organisation: Woodland Trust

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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…

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In this short vlog (filmed on the 16th of March), Tim Field discusses using a Woodland Trust grant to plant 800 trees on a 30 acre field which currently comprises of established chicken ranges at Daylesford Organic Farm.

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.

It’s important to look at your woodland in the context of other trees. What’s going to be there in the long term? Don’t assume that just because you’ve got 20 oak trees, they’re all going to survive.

Sheep farmer Paul Renison talks about the challenges of farming on the edge of the North Pennines and describes using trees to help increase shelter and reduce lamb loss.

The reason they don’t bat an eyelid is because they don’t have them. Or eyes. There’s other bits they’re lacking too, like a heart, lungs, intestines – basically all the inside bits.

But there’s no need for alarm. They are, in fact, robots.

Webpage outlining ways in which the Woodland Trust can help you integrate trees on your land.

Speaking to a good friend of mine recently about agroforestry, and trying to explain what I actually meant by it, I ended up flippantly saying “well it’s really just trees on farms!”