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Trees in the Farming Landscape Meike Weiser Forest for Cornwall Project Officer
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What is agroforestry?
And why is it good for farming?
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Agroforestry options: • Hedgerows with standards: Allowing occasional trees to grow up into fully mature standards along field boundaries. Widening hedgerows can create important wildlife corridors between other isolated habitats across the landscape.
Trees can provide an additional source of trace minerals and protein.
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Agroforestry options: • Silvo-pasture: the inclusion of trees in livestock/grazing systems
Deadwood and scrub are important components
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Agroforestry options: • Silvoarable/Alley cropping: Trees are planted in set rows to complement the underlying grassland management.
Planting rows can follow contours or be orientated north– south depending on management and species choice
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Agroforestry options: • Alley Cropping with Arable the intercropping of trees with annual or perennial crops .
Alley widths should be around 24 m
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Agroforestry options: • Orchards/Traditional
Stem spacing can vary from 510m depending on rootstock and species used.
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Agroforestry options: • Shelterbelts Planting density can vary between 1–2m between stems
The sheltered area can extend to 20 times the height of the tallest tree
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Agroforestry options: • Small copse and infield corners
In-field copses can be used as anchor points for holistic / mob grazing systems
Field corner plantings when connected by hedgerows help to improve the connectivity of the landscape for wildlife
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ENVIRONMENT SERVICE
Rosuick Organic Farm, The Lizard • 25ha of new agroforestry • Significant and complex site on a national scale • Consultation with Natural England (SSSI), Historic England and National Landscapes
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• Planting consists of diverse interventions: • Shelterbelts • Parkland • Habitat enhancement planting • Living barns • Silvopasture w/ timber production • Grazed alleys of orchard/fruit production • New hedgerow standards
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Tregerles Farm: • Intensive silvoarable system. The first of its kind in Cornwall • Grazed by cattle, sheep, horses and goats • Designed with farmer to be a workable, productive system with forthcoming SFI payments in mind • Plans created with HER input for historic round
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Future projects: Petalon
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Forest-for-Cornwall-Programme Contact the Forest for Cornwall Team
Email: ForestforCornwall@cornwall.gov.uk Meike.weiser@cornwall.gov.uk Mobile: 07871736295