How to make farms tree-friendly and boost food production - 8.9ha How to make farms tree-friendly and boost food production

Great to see the Trees-in-fields Network featured on @8point9.bsky.social

Silvoarable agroforestry has many potential benefits, and creating living labs like the Trees-in-fields Network can help farmers and researchers work together to optimise management! 🌳🚜🌽🪱

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There are many research gaps to address!
With qs about the environment, production, human livelihoods, knowledge, policy, & financing

Addressing this agenda requires better support for long-term, multi-stakeholder research and funded living labs👨‍🌾👩‍🔬👨‍🌾

Tnks Live Illustration for a great summary figure

And in the next project output, we share a research agenda with the top 40 questions for UK agroforestry👩‍🔬🌳🔬

This was co-designed w 156 stakeholders, incl.
@organicrescent.bsky.social @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
@sylvanfarm.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

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Climate-resilient Agriculture - Trees-in-fields Network The Trees-in-fields Network is recruiting farmers! 🧑‍🌾🚜🪱🌳 We have two aims: Co-design long-term silvoarable experiments looking at the environmental, production, management, and financial impacts of ...

📣PhD closing 26 Jan🌳

If you're interested in sustainable farming and think trees are the 🐝s knees, then join us @uniofreading.bsky.social for a PhD co-designing agroforestry systems with farmers🚜

Our website: www.trees-in-fields-network.co.uk
The PhD: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...

👌 The #Horizon project SHOWCASE aims to facilitate the integration of #biodiversity into #farming practices.

📚 In their #openscience collection, the consortium has collated 48 publications, incl. the grant proposal, reports & research articles linked from various sources!

👉 doi.org/10.3897/rio....

If you're interested in this type of thing, we have a great PhD opportunity open at the moment to join the team!

Happy to answer any questions and put you in touch with existing students to learn more about doing a PhD @uniofreading.bsky.social

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And five key actions for policy makers:

🏦 Stabilise and clarify government agroforestry subsidies
🗣️ Consolidate farm advisory systems
👨‍🌾 Create schemes to support farmer-to-farmer mentoring
🚜 Fund on-farm living labs
👩‍🔬 Fund long-term, transdisciplinary research

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We used this to make four key actions for advisors & educators:

🔧 Create open-access tools on funding and tree sp
🎓 Increase trust with neutral advisors & an AF accreditation
👩‍🌾 Enhance farmer-to-farmer learning opportunities
🏫 Educate land managers in training
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Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Agroforestry can benefit the environment & production, so why isn't it more widely adopted?🌳🚜

Knowledge is a major barrier to uptake! We worked with 75 UK stakeholders to identify barriers & co-design solutions

doi.org/10.1002/pan3... Tnks
@uktreescapes.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social

🌳 Looking forward to presenting this at the Britain’s Forest Future Conference on 17th and 18th November

I’ll be speaking alongside other researchers and practitioners exploring the future of trees, woodlands and forests in the UK

👉 Hope to see you there britainsforestfuture.zohobackstage.eu/event

Researching regen approaches gaining speed Practical experience has outstripped research results within the regenerative farming world, but that’s slowly changing.

Cover crops are good for the soil!🌱🌾
Our UK trials found 53% increase in 🪱during cover cropping and 66% in the subsequent crop.
And🕷️increased by 26%!

Thanks Crop Production Magazine for sharing our SHOWCASE results
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🌳Join us at #AgroforestryShow nxt week for our session: Opportunities for farmer-led research in silvoarable AF

I'll introduce the Trees-in-fields Network, which focuses on farmer-led research & community
www.trees-in-fields-network.co.uk @thesoilassociation.bsky.social‬ ‪@uor-research.bsky.social‬

Glad you're having a nice time Rich, and I'm sure the NT nature is sparking more ideas! Looking forward to catching up when you're back

Thanks to the Woodland Trust for organising our session

Looking forward to our next get together at the Agroforestry Show already! www.agroforestryshow.com
🌳🌽🌳🥰

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Research has shown that AF can benefit biodiversity & production
🐝‪@alexavarah.bsky.social‬ found x2.4 more bees in silvoarable vs arable shorturl.at/XVO4V
🪲Tom Staton found 24% more predators & 25% less pests shorturl.at/5uBOD
🪱@rosyscholes.bsky.social‬ found 48% more worms in rows & 25% in alleys

Just back from Groundswell & buzzing from so many exciting discussions about agroforestry!

If you're interested in joining a community of farmers to test new ways of managing agroforestry, check out the Trees-in-fields Network: shorturl.at/2IeMl

🌳🌽🌳 #YesPleaseTrees #TheTreesKnees #GetYourTreesOut

Thought bsky was cool so where's the worm emoji?

🐛 #NotMyEmoji

Great news Ed! I'm a few months behind but this is really good to see 😀

Excited to be presenting results from the SHOWCASE project and Agroforestry Group this month!

Our farm trials across England have shown cover crops can increase earthworms by 65% in the following cash crops! AND agroforestry promotes worms too, especially in drought years 😎

Hope to see you there!🌾

Winter Webinar: Learnings from Agromix and Treescapes Projects Join us for a Winter Webinar to discover key insights from Agromix and Treescapes Projects - all from the comfort of your own home!

🌳🌾 Agroforestry webinar Tues 25🌾🌳
Join Rosemary Venn and me for look at agroforestry systems in Europe and key learnings from the #Agromix and @uktreescapes.bsky.social programme

Hope to see you there!

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