In collaboration with Greening Australia, Earthcare Park established a farm forestry project on the northern boundary of the Park. So what is farm forestry anyway?
The mid-1970s saw the global recognition of the key role trees play on farms and wikipedia describes 'agroforestry' as: an agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.
Today - agroforestry practices have made significant inroads on critical survival issues in the 'third world' by: reducing poverty through increasing production of agroforestry products for home consumption and sale; contributing to food security by restoring farm soil fertility for food crops and production of fruits, nuts and edible oils; reducing deforestation and pressure on woodlands by providing fuelwood grown on farms.
Join us on July 6 @ 9am for a chat with a farm forestry expert, followed by maintenance work on our plot and our AGM at 11am.
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