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- Agroforestry and farm woodlands: Managing your trees
Agroforestry and farm woodlands: Managing your trees
Agroforestry and farm woodlands: Managing your trees
Tuesday 6 February, 10:30–14:30
Baddinsgill Farm, West Linton
Treeline is a family-run forestry business based on a Pentland hill farm near West Linton in the Scottish Borders, who provide woodland management and contracting services as well as supplying high quality woodfuel and forestry machinery.
Join us for a farm walk (followed by hot soup) to hear from farmer-foresters Gavin and Nick Marshall on topics including:
- multiple uses and benefits of trees to a farm business
- what to consider when planning and planting new farm woodland; infrastructure considerations
- management options and considerations for existing farm woodland
- machinery and equipment for managing farm woodland/ forestry.
Hot lunch included.
FREE and open to farmers, crofters, land managers and foresters. Booking required.
For more information contact Colleen on 07972298576 / cmcculloch@soilassociation.org.
This is part of part of a new farmer-led knowledge exchange programme, Agroecology: Strengthening Livelihoods, which we are working on with Nourish Scotland, Landworkers’ Alliance, Pasture for Life, the Nature Friendly Farming Network and Propagate.
Funding for this programme is being made available through the Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (KTIF), which is funded by the Scottish Government.