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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. Key words: Forestry, Farm Forest, Forester, Trees, Agroforestry, Regenerative Agriculture, Landcare, Timber, Lumber, Sawmilling, Bushfood, Carbon, Biodiversity, Soil Conservation, Farming, Environment, Plantation 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. We call it the Bambra Agroforestry Farm and grow more than 70 different species for conservation and profit. After almost 40 years we're now harvesting and milling our own trees, building a house from the timber and selling tree products. I was also a co-founder of one of Australia’s most successful Landcare groups, the Otway Agroforestry Network and the originator of the Australian Master TreeGrower program. I have worked with farmers in many countries including the USA, UK, Europe, Uganda, Kenya, Indonesia, Vanuatu and Timor Leste. I have written many books about tree growing: the latest is "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit". WWW: www.agroforestry.net.au EMAIL: rowan.reid@agroforestry.net.au FACEBOOK: @bambraagroforestry LINKED IN: Rowan Reid INSTAGRAM: bambra_agroforestry_farm YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 And, thanks to Mountain Grey for our theme music. They are a local Otway band. Check out their music at: https://www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey #Trees #Timber #agroforestry #farmforestry #sawmilling #lumber #forestry
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Thinning may be the most controversial and poorly understood aspect of growing trees. Whether for conservation, timber or both, competition between trees may be slowing their growth and reducing the quality of your forest. In this podcast Rowan explains how managing the 'personal space' around each tree can help create a more valuable forest. He also touches on the risk of believing in a commercial thinning option and why the expectation of a market for small diameter trees has undermined the development of high value forests on farms around the world. Photo: thinning our 22-yr-old English Oak plantation in 2017 Links: Our website: https://www.agroforestry.net.au/ Rowan's papers on thinning and pruning: https://agroforestry.net.au/edit/pdfs/pruning%20paper%20afg%20mag.pdf https://agroforestry.net.au/edit/pdfs/blackwood%20conference%20paper.pdf Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 Music by Mountain Grey. Send us Fan Mail Support the show
We've spent 5 years building our new farmhouse. Almost all the timber (or lumber) came from trees we planted, pruned, harvested and milled on the farm. You could say it took us 38 years to grow our homegrown home! In this podcast I talk about growing and building the timber framing, boardroom concrete fireplace, stairs, lining, cabinets and flooring using a range of species we've grown on our own farm including Radiata Pine, Eucalypts, Redwood, Oak and Blackwood. To achieve the log size and wood quality I had to carefully manage the trees by pruning and thinning, and the milling on the bandsaw had to focus on quartersawing. Links: Our website: https://www.agroforestry.net.au/ Landline story showing the harvesting and milling of the tree we used for the stairs: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/programs/landline/2023-02-26/forestry-foresight:-reaping-the-rewards-of-agri/102025432 Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 Wood information: https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/wood-species Melbourne Books - purchase a digital copy of "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit" by Rowan Reid: https://melbournebooks.com.au/products/heartwood Music by Mountain Grey. Send us Fan Mail Support the show
Can we change forestry to make it attractive to family farmers? In this episode Rowan Reid reflects on the history of forestry on farms in Australia and his involvement over the last 40 years. It's clear that forestry is not working for farmers and we need to change the way we talk about and support forestry in the family farming landscape. Key words: Forestry, Farm Forest, Forester, Trees, Agroforestry, Regenerative Agriculture, Landcare, Timber, Lumber, Farming, Plantation Rowan's media: WWW: www.agroforestry.net.au FACEBOOK: @bambraagroforestry LINKED IN: Rowan Reid INSTAGRAM: bambra_agroforestry_farm YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 Thanks to our friends at Mountain Grey for the theme music: www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey/songs Send us Fan Mail Support the show
My guest to talk about pruning trees for high quality timber is Josquin Tibbits; professional Arborist and Forest Scientist. Josky has been harvesting and milling pruned trees for his own building project. We discuss why, how, when and with what to prune young trees in order to confine branch knots to a central core and increase the proportion of high quality timber that can be recovered from the logs. On the Bambra Agroforestry Farm we have been pruning more than 70 different tree species for timber and the results are great. Key words: Forestry, Farm Forest, Forester, Trees, Agroforestry, Regenerative Agriculture, Landcare, Timber, Lumber, Sawmilling, Farming, Plantation Online Pruning Information: https://www.agroforestry.net.au/ Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 Rowan's media: WWW: www.agroforestry.net.au FACEBOOK: @bambraagroforestry LINKED IN: Rowan Reid INSTAGRAM: bambra_agroforestry_farm YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 Thanks to our friends at Mountain Grey for the theme music: www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey/songs Send us Fan Mail Support the show
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 Network in 1993; ran the first Australian Master TreeGrower course in 1996; and, developed a unique Peer Group Mentoring program to support farmers as they explore their tree growing options. The Otway Agroforestry network is now one of the largest farmer-led groups of its kind and the landscape around us has changed dramatically: there is now a diversity of tree planting that I've not seen anywhere in the world. And, we are now producing a range of high quality products, including timber, from the trees we planted for shelter and land protection. In this podcast Andrew and I reflect on the past and imagine what the future may hold for agroforestry in the Otways. For more about the Otway Agroforestry Network check out this series of Podcasts made by the team: https://fortheloveoftrees.buzzsprout.com/ Key words: Forestry, Farm Forest, Forester, Trees, Agroforestry, Regenerative Agriculture, Landcare, Timber, Lumber, Sawmilling, Bushfood, Carbon, Biodiversity, Soil Conservation, Farming, Environment, Plantation Thanks to our friends at Mountain Grey for the theme music: www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey/songs Send us Fan Mail Support the show
David Jenkins grows eucalypt sawlogs and has a 10 inch Lucas Mill on his beef farm near Bridgetown 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. Keywords: Forestry, Farm Forest, Forester, Trees, Agroforestry, Regenerative Agriculture, Landcare, Timber, Lumber, Sawmilling, Farming, Plantation Watch a video of me using our Hardwood Mills GT40 Bandsaw to quartersaw a large eucalypt at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LFBxq2btE Hardwood Mills: www.hardwoodmills.com.au Lucas Mills: www.lucasmill.com Rowan's media: WWW: www.agroforestry.net.au FACEBOOK: @bambraagroforestry LINKED IN: Rowan Reid INSTAGRAM: bambra_agroforestry_farm YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 Thanks to our friends at Mountain Grey for the theme music: www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey/songs Send us Fan Mail Support the show
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