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Agroforestry.net.au |
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 Farm
Related Programs
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We ran the first Australian Master TreeGrower course in 1996. Since then, more than 1750 landholder have completed one of the 85 courses run across the country. Yet, the MTG is more than just a short course for farmers. After being hosted by the University of Melbourne for 13 years the MTG program is now run by a not-for-profit community groups. |
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Australian Agroforestry is a not-for-profit magazine for Australian tree growers currently edited by Rowan. Check out past editions and subscribe online. |
STUDY
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Rowan has been teaching Agroforestry at Melb. Uni. Since 1991. His subject is now a 2-week elective available to students of the new forestry masters and to the public through the university’s community access program. This subject covers the principles and practices of integrating trees into the rural agricultural landscape for both conservation and profit. The farming community requires trees and shrubs for shade and shelter, soil conservation, salinity control and aesthetics. Farmers can also produce commercial tree products such as timber, fuel, fodder, essential oils and food. Because farmers manage the majority of the Australian landscape governments, community groups and industry are increasingly working in partnership with them to grow trees for environmental services including carbon sequestration, biodiversity and downstream water quality.
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I send out an occasional newsletter to more than 500 people on a confidential email list. There is no advertising, just information. If you'd like to join the list simply drop me an email - see Contact Rowan below. |
NEWS
Log-Grown Shiitake
As seen ABC TV
The 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 site
Rowan running another farm tour at Bambra
Feature Tree Species
Australian Blackwood
(Click on Picture)
