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Grazing livestock - It's not the cow but the how

Grazing Livestock: It’s not the cow but the how

This report from the Sustainable Food Trust highlights the benefits that regeneratively grazed livestock can have for climate, nature, food security and health.

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Photo: Andy Dibben. Agroforestry with understorey at Abbey Home Farm
Silvo-horticulture agroforestry has many benefits for market gardens, but needs careful planning for success. This workshop held at Organic Matters 2022 focused on how to make it work.
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Harvest Credit_Herenboeren
Family farm conflicts, benefits of compost teas, preventing disease in apple orchards, how community-owned farms can work - it's all here in this podcast from Farmerama...
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Sheep and trees
A policy brief summarising results and recommendations from a review undertaken as part of the Defra-funded Agroforestry ELM Test project.
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Silvo-horticultural agroforestry at Close Farm
Learn about agroforestry research undertaken by the Organic Research Centre, find links to further information and resources.
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Silvopasture agroforestry
An overview of agroforestry and related systems for farming and gardening with trees.
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Taken at Home Farm (and Farmeco Community Care Farm), Screveton, Nottinghamshire. Photo credit: Janie Caldbeck
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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Wakelyns Agroforestry. Photo credit: Maja Lindstrom
A revised new edition of this publication explaining the on-farm research carried out at the innovative and pioneering Wakelyns.
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Apple trees
A video produced for the AFINET project exploring some of the practical considerations for agroforestry systems and potential benefits.
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Tree crop interactions Wakelyns
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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Agroforestry at Wakelyns
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.
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Cow browsing hedgerow
The multiple benefits of combining trees and shrubs with livestock in low-input and organic dairy farms.
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Dartington Agroforestry
Video footage recorded when the UK AFINET agroforestry network group met at the Dartington Estate in Devon to discuss agroforestry implementation.
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Whitehall Farm. Photo credit: Tim Scrivener. All rights reserved
Footage of farmer Stephen Briggs speaking at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2019 on the process of planning a new agroforestry system, finding markets for wood products, and calculating the business opportunities.
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Silvo-arable agroforestry. Photo: David Rose, Farmeco. All Rights Reserved.
David Rose, farmer and co-founder of Home Farm Ecocentre in Nottinghamshire talks about his silvoarable agroforestry system and research being carried out in one of a series of podcasts.
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Buds in agroforestry row
This film, created by the Soil Association through the FABulous Farmers project, explores some of the many benefits that can be experienced from different agroforestry systems.
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Silvoarable agroforestry at Whitehall Farm. Photo credit: Tom Scrivener
Pioneering agroforestry farmer Stephen Briggs relates the benefits he has reaped from this multi-faceted system of farming.
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Elm Farm, Berkshire UK silvopasture woodchip plots August 2012
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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Taken by Tim Scrivener. Stephen Briggs, Whitehall Farm, Cambs
Footage of agroforestry pioneer Stephen Briggs imparting some of his learnings from a now well-established commercial agroforestry system.
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CCP spring wheat trials at Wakelyns Agroforestry, July 2016 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Invaluable guidance for farmers from the AGFORWARD team on how to plan, create and manage an agroforestry system.
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Image courtesy of Tom Staton. All Rights Reserved
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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Recommendations from the SOLMACC project for implementing climate-friendly and resilient farming practices on-farm.
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Insect monitoring in Silvoarable agroforestry
Design and manage agroforestry in arable systems so that the biodiversity benefits are maximised and problems are reduced.
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Rhubarb under trees
An AGFORWARD leaflet that focuses on managing the tree understorey in a horticultural agroforestry system, for increased food production and biodiversity.
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Trees_TimDownes
This Groundswell 2024 session explored the role and challenges of incorporating trees into dairy farming systems.
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