Bambra Agroforestry Farm

Rowan Reid, Forest scientist, originator of the Master Tree Grower and author of "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation & profit"

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What s Agroforestry and how can governments can encourage it https://t.co/QRxNDgNJfE

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Check out our Landline story
Rowan Reid
Bambra Agroforestry Farm

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Charles Massey says Regen Ag is, besides forestry, the most effective tool for drawing down carbon in his 100 Climate Conversations interview. Planting trees is not enough, the carbon is only safe when the wood is used. 10cm block holds this much CO2 https://t.co/fhtqFVU1yN

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@Charles37187127 We do both: 70 species. https://t.co/Fi4MU3tvVH

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Compare the pair: The pine inside the big green shed is from NZ, the Aussie pine is out in the yard. The NZ pine is about $2700/m3 compared to less than $1700/m3 (nomial size). The difference: NZ pine was pruned. Growing volume will not replace imports. We need to grow quality.

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What the native timber industry didn't want you to know: You can grow old growth quality eucalypt timber in less than 40 years.
High-pruned parkland of Sydney Blue Gum. This tree is 105cm diameter. David Jenkins, Bridgetown WA

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What if harvesting trees for timber was an act of conservation:

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There is more to creating a culture of tree growing than planting trees.

Photo from our visit to Japan organised by Global Landcare

Rowan Reid
Originator of the Australian Master TreeGrower
Co-founder of the Otway Agroforestry Network
Owner of Bambra Agroforestry Farm

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Forestry Foresight: Reaping the rewards of agri-forestry https://t.co/a9RGzt0Qo1

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@karst_justine asks us to be careful when communicating #science. Don’t let your personal bias affect the facts you represent. It makes it harder for everyone in the end.

#woodwideweb #sciencecommunication

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@karst_justine @PeterWohlleben @jhooooks His house of cards is about to fall. Well done

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@karst_justine @BBC Well done for calling this out.

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@AFCA_Forests @ABCaustralia Watch the episode on Iview. 26th Feb edition of Landline. Our segment starts at the 42min mark. Cheers

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@abclandline Check out Rowan Reid's web site: https://t.co/IY8gen3ZD2

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Timber shortage no issue for farmer who grew his own eco-friendly plantation and now reaps the rewards https://t.co/Z2dtvX7Lxn
SEE: https://t.co/IY8gen3ZD2 for more

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ABC TV Landline's story featuring Rowan Reid goes to air next weekend.

See some of our 70 native and exotic trees and learn how we manage them for conservation and profit.
Includes Sam felling a big Mountain Ash (35-yrs-old) and Rowan running it through a bandsaw.
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Very satisfying to open a log and see how effective our early pruning has been in confining the branch knots to the central core. This allows us to cut knot-free boards from the clearwood zone.

Free information about how & when to prune at: https://t.co/IY8gen3ZD2

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Our 35-yr-old Mountain Ash. Pruned log is 5.5m and over 85cm in diameter. Volume of 3.5m3.

Logs like this don't grow in dense plantations - but they can be grown on farms in parklands, conservation plantings and belts.

Changing forestry so it works for farmers.

Rowan Reid