Welcome to my agroforestry website. After more than 20 years working as a lecturer in agroforestry and farm forestry at the University of Melbourne I'm now working privately. However, I maintian my role as coordinator of the Australian Master TreeGrower Program and as volunteer editor of the Australian Agroforestry magazine. I will even be still teaching my Agroforestry and Farm Trees course at Melbourne University (see link below).
What I do want to do now is develop our farm further for tours and courses. It's been 24 years since we planted our first trees and we are now regularly harvesting, milling drying our own timber. I also want to help others with their projects, hence this web site.
My web site highlights some of the quality scientific and practical information - most of it available free of charge - that’s out there for tree growers. I have posted my own publications, practical information on tree species and management, links to many other web sites that I find useful and notices on upcoming events and news. You can download a tour booklet for on our own Bambra Agroforestry Farm and watch videos on harvesting, integrating trees into farming systems and shiitake production.
I'm also happy to try and answer your email questions at no charge (go to Ask Rowan). I am also available for speaking engagements, field days, consultancies and can organise tours of my property and other leading agroforestry farms around Australia. For those in the many agencies working with farmers I can also organise and run workshops and courses that reflect your needs.
I hope you find the site useful.
Thanks for your interest, Rowan More about Rowan Reid
Sheep graze under Poplar, Black Walnut and Eucalypts at Rowan’s Bambra Agroforestry FarmRelated Programs
|
NEWSLog-Grown ShiitakeAs seen ABC TVThe Gardening Australia Shiitake story featuring Parsu was repeated on Gardening Australia last weekend. If you missed it you can still view it on iView Parsu is the most experienced Log-Grown Shiitake grower in Australia and the principal author of the first Shiitake Growers Manual (see below). In the TV story Parsu takes Jane Edmanson through the process of log inoculation and shows her the production facility he set up at CERES Environmental Park in Melbourne. Most popular pages on this siteRowan running another farm tour at BambraFeature Tree Species
|
|||||||||||
| Contact Rowan | © Rowan Reid. All rights reserved | Copyright | Disclaimer | ||||||||||||