Stuart Holm

Farmers often ask us about the best way to manage woodland at this time of year... Of course, every site is different and the answer we give will depend on your objectives for the woodland, the age of the planting, the density and condition of the trees and what else is around. 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.

peaking 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!” Then I thought well that is it really; trees providing benefits on a farm. Now I see pretty much all trees as beneficial on a farm, so in many ways my definition of agroforestry could indeed be defined by “it’s just trees on farms.”