Integrating Trees & The Benefits
Trees can bring many benefits to farming and crofting businesses including shelter and shade for livestock which in turn improves productivity; reducing your carbon footprint; creating a habitat for wildlife and diversifying income streams.
This webpage includes a useful summary on the benefits of integrating trees while also providing case studies from farmers and crofters who have completed tree planting projects.
You can also find further information on the Integrating Trees Network page.
Farming with Trees: Integrating Trees into an Upland Farm
Regenerative planting has been carried out at SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre Farms, In this video with John Holland, an Upland Ecologist and Davy McCracken, Head of Hill & Mountain Research, we learn how the farms have incorporated planting smaller areas and numbers of trees to create a number of benefits. Watch here >>
Right Tree in the Right Place
Including trees within your land can have multiple benefits to your land. Trees can offer many ecosystem services to your land from soil sequestration to shelter for livestock and crops. This video explores the impact the addition of trees have made to Knockbain Farm. Through discussing the farm with Richard Lockett we discuss the multiple benefits the farm is experiencing from the addition of trees and the lessons learnt. Watch here >>
FAS TV: Integrating Trees on Farm
On this week's FAS TV, we visit Mains of Fincastle an upland beef and sheep farm in Highland Perthshire to see how Andrew has integrated trees to benefit livestock and the environment. We also hear from Pat Snowdon who explains carbon markets and the woodland carbon code. Watch here >>
FAS TV: Woodlands on Crofts and Smallholdings
On this week’s FAS TV, we head to the Isle of Skye to visit crofter Phil Knott along with Gordon Cumming from the Woodland Trust to hear how fruit trees and mixed woodland can bring many benefits to crofts and smallholdings across the Highlands and Islands. Watch here >>
Scottish Agriculture - Integrating Trees Network: Netherurd Home Farm
Host farmer Andrew Adamson of Netherurd Home Farm, Peebleshire discusses the benefits that planting trees has brought to his business. Watch here >>
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