Heartwood

Podcast: Heartwood Podcast
Host: Rowan Reid
Category: Science
Sub-Category: Agriculture & Primary Producers, Climate & Sustainability, Nature
First Episode: 2024

Welcome to our new Podcast series. I’ll be sharing my 40 years experience in growing trees on farms for both conservation and profit with stories from our own farm and interviews with some of the many farmers I have worked with around Australia. I’m open to suggestions for content and am happy to takes questions. Hope you like it.Rowan I’m a forest scientist (B.For.Sci. & M.For.Sci.), author, educator and a tree grower with a family farm in the Otway Ranges of southern Victoria, Australia. We call it the Bambra Agroforestry Farm and grow more than 70 different species for conservation and profit. After almost 40 years we’re now harvesting and milling our own trees, building a house from the timber and selling tree products.I was also a founder of one of Australia’s most successful Landcare groups, the Otway Agroforestry Network and the originator of the Australian Master TreeGrower program. I have worked with farmers in many countries including the USA, UK, Europe, Uganda, Kenya, Indonesia, Vanuatu and Timor Leste. I have written many books about tree growing: the latest is Heartwood – the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit. And, thanks to Mountain Grey for our theme music. They are a local Otway band.

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