#37 Increasing tree cover from 3% to 20% for resilience, profit and biodiversity with Jill and Andrew Stewart

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The Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast

Dimitri Tsitos & Etienne Compagnon

57 episodes

9 months ago

A space where we investigate the possibilities of agroforestry, share experiences and analyse different strategies, tools and techniques. We bring you quality, in-depth content, so that we can build together regenerative agroforestry systems.

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A space where we investigate the possibilities of agroforestry, share experiences and analyse different strategies, tools and techniques. We bring you quality, in-depth content, so that we can build together regenerative agroforestry systems.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#37 Increasing tree cover from 3% to 20% for resilience, profit and biodiversity with Jill and Andrew Stewart

The Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast

1 hour 20 minutes 56 seconds

3 years ago

#37 Increasing tree cover from 3% to 20% for resilience, profit and biodiversity with Jill and Andrew Stewart

Andrew and Jill Stewart are owners and managers of Yan Yan Gurt West Farm in the Otway Ranges, Southern Victoria, Australia. For the past 30 years, they have taken regenerative agriculture extremely seriously in order to solve problems of soil salinisation, soil erosion, climate change and animal welfare. In order to do so they have planted 23kms of shelterbelts and riparian buffers, connected into a complex ecological mosaic to produce both ecosystem services and a huge variety of new enterprises. Since they started planting trees they have increased tree cover from 3% to 20%, without reducing any of their sheep productivity. Quite the contrary, they have opened up a whole new set of enterprises from saw logs to woody florals. Tune in to find out more about this incredible transition!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

01:40 Introduction

08:50 The story of the farm

15:00 Main productions

25:34 Timber production

36:07 Harvest and milling

44:43 Economic decision of harvesting shelter belts

52:36 Do trees increase too much fixed costs?

59:13 Are subsidies necessary to justify economically agroforestry plantations?

01:06:29 Tree - Pasture interaction

01:15:01 Managing weeds when planting young trees

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