Trees on Farms
Join us for this one day workshop & field walk to explore integrating trees on your farm to enhance your natural capital and boost enterprise profitability.
Presenters Kristy Stewart (Yan Yan Gurt West Farm), Charles Otway (Terra Perma), and Forester Bob Hingston will cover a range of ways to integrate trees into your farm. Workshop topics covered include:
- Why Trees on Farms
- Who’s doing what on their farm
- Farm Design for Trees in the Landscape
- Yan Yan Gurt West Farm Case Study
- Trees on Farms Field Walk and an introduction to Master Tree Growers.
WILL THIS WORKSHOP BENEFIT ME?
The workshop is for anyone looking to improve their farms natural capital with trees. This workshop is suitable for both experienced and new farmers.
EVENT LOGISTICS:
Where? The Colonial Brewery, 29 Osmington Rd, Bramley WA 6285
When? Thursday June 5th, 8.45am to 4.00pm
Cost? $60 + GST / participant
What else? Morning tea & lunch will be provided. BYO your own refillable water bottle, suitable farm footwear, & a notebook & pen. We’ll jump on a bus after lunch to head out to the farm visits and will return to the Brewery for a 4.00pm finish.
How? Places are limited so don’t wait!
This event forms part of the Lower Blackwood LCDC’s Regenerative Agriculture in Practice Program which is supported through the Augusta Margaret River Shire’s Environmental Management Fund. Additional support for this event has been received through the State NRM funded Regen Accelerator Project delivered by RegenWA.
Date
- 05-06-2025
- Expired!
Time
- 8:45 am - 4:00 pm
Location
- 29 Osmington Rd, Bramley WA 6285
Category
Organizer
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Lower Blackwood Talkin' After Hours
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Email
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Website
https://lowerblackwood.com.au Lower Blackwood LCDC Events & Online Community
Speakers
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Bob HingstonForresterBob is a former Farm Forestry Development Officer with the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) and Forest Products Commission (FPC). He has extensive knowledge in silvicultural, agroforestry and plantation research forestry with wide spaced eucalypts and pines over 50 years. This work led him into farm forestry/agroforestry extension across WA farmland but mostly the South West.
Bob has been responsible for establishment of many farm forestry projects (private and govt.) around WA and further research with species such as Casuarina obesa and low rainfall species eg eucalypt sawlogs. He has also been involved in joint sawmilling studies on CALM eucalypt agroforestry trial logs with CSIRO.
Nowadays semi-retired but still involved in some forestry trials around the State and former private farm forestry projects.Bob has been in involved in Aust. Master Tree Grower Programs around WA since its inception in 1997.
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Kristy StewartYan Yan Gurt FarmKristy is a land steward, community connector and 5th generation farmer born at Yan Yan Gurt West, an award winning sheep and agroforestry farm on Wadawurrung and Gadubanud Country in Victoria.
She holds a B. Agricultural Sciences and works in the education space as a Landcare project officer, is the Industry Development Manager for Sustainable Table and is part of the team co-managing her family farm where she runs educational tours on agriculture, agroforestry and landscape connection.
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Charles OtwayTerra PermaAs a passionate and experienced edible plant garden designer, Charles is a fully qualified trainer and popular public speaker. Growing up in Pemberton on small farm Permaculture rootstock, he has seen, applied and eaten much of the theory and techniques of Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture. More recently he has moved into farm design and Regenerative Agriculture consultation with a return to family farms in Pemberton in 2018.
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