Watch: Tree planting on your farm

Getting the right tree in the right place for the right reasons

Two Soil Association Scotland webinars with agroforestry expert Niels Corfield to help you get started with planting trees on your farm. 

Tree planting on your farm (part 1)

  • Virtual tour of Wakelyns farm: design, tree benefits and uses, tree varieties, management

  • Design examples: high pasture and arable cropping in Scotland’s south-east

  • How to incorporate trees in your land

  • How design choices can improve and diversify conditions in your farm

  • Importance of orientation: North/South, longer axis

  • Designing for shelter (livestock, cultivated land)

  • Tree species, characteristics and uses: forage, biomass / woodchip

  • Planting phases

  • Designing your plan

Tree planting on your farm (part 2) 

  • Importance of structural diversity in your land

  • Planting patterns and selection

  • Responding to your land: design examples

  • Slopes: keyline design

  • Water courses: riparian planting

  • Exposure: knowing your land

  • Planting, establishing, and upcycling

  • Horticultural design demo

Want to learn more about agroforestry?

In February and March 2021, we'll be running a series of three, free webinars on how to get started in agroforestry. Sign up to attend now.
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