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For The Love Of Trees

Otway Agroforestry Network

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A podcast from the Otway Agroforestry Network. We encourage farmers to plant trees for the reasons that matter to them. Trees on farms are important for livestock welfare and can improve the water quality in our creeks and streams. Agroforestry trees expand and connect wildlife habitats, capture and store carbon dioxide, reduce the need to harvest our public native forests and provide regional business and employment opportunities. OAN (Otway Agroforestry Network Ltd) is a grassroots Austral ...
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Welcome to our new Podcast series. I'll be sharing my 40 years experience in growing trees on farms for both conservation and profit with stories from our own farm and interviews with some of the many farmers I have worked with around Australia. I'm open to suggestions for content and am happy to takes questions. Hope you like it. Rowan I'm a forest scientist (B.For.Sci. & M.For.Sci.), author, educator and a tree grower with a family farm in the Otway Ranges of southern Victoria, Australia. ...
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Send us a text Andrew Stewart is a multi-award winning farmer in the Otways in southern Victoria, Australia. I'm a forest scientist with a small tree farm in the next valley. For more than 35 years we have shared a passion for making multipurpose tree growing attractive to family farmers in our region. With others, we set up the Otway Agroforestry …
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Send us a text David Jenkins grows eucalypt sawlogs and has a 10 inch Lucas Mill on his beef farm near Bridgetwon in Western Australia. I have a Hardwood Mills GT40 Horizontal Bandsaw on our Bambra Agroforestry Farm in Victoria. We caught up in David's mill shed to discuss how these two Australian made mills perform and the advantages of each. Watc…
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OAN (Otway Agroforestry Network Ltd) is a Landcare group based in southwest Victoria, Australia. The Network educates and encourages landholders to establish and manage trees on their properties for all the reasons important to the landholder whether it be for sheltering farm stock and crops, controlling soil erosion and dryland salinity, enhancing…
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What gets us up in the morning? What makes us tick? Why are we doing the things we do on our properties? Why do we love what we do? In this episode, members of the OAN discuss aesthetics, wellbeing, livelihoods, capital value, listening to the birds and enjoying the work we do on our farms.由Otway Agroforestry Network
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The Otway Agroforestry Network is a vibrant community run Landcare group that encourages farmers to establish and manage trees for reasons important to them- to shelter stock and crops; control soil erosion and dryland salinity; provide environmental services; enhance property values; and, if at all possible, generate alternative sources of income.…
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The panel discussion in this episode looks at the whole idea of what “forestry” is and how farmers are growing forest products that suit their individual needs and are inspiring others to think outside the box! Biochar, firewood, cut flowers, seed products, native foods, shiitake mushrooms are just some of the products discussed.…
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