#2 The Farmer and the Forester
10/25/24 • 60 min
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/
Thanks to our friends at Mountain Grey for the theme music:
www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey/songs
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/
Thanks to our friends at Mountain Grey for the theme music:
www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey/songs
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#1: Portable sawmills for farmers
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.
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
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#3 Pruning Works - for high quality timber
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.
Online Pruning Information: https://www.agroforestry.net.au/
Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008
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