Benefits, selection and planting - Trees in Agriculture Webinar Mar '22

In the second of a series of webinars exploring and imagining the possibilities for integrating trees into New Zealand farm systems, we deep dive into the what, where, why and how of trees in agriculture with Dr Colin Meurk.

Content

• The various services provided by trees – carbon, shade, shelter, food, erosion control, biodiversity conservation, beetle banks.

• Species selection for remnant gullies, riparian corridors, shelterbelts, irrigator paddock corners, shrub-lines under irrigators, hedgerows, roadsides/verges, orchards, etc.

• And how we plant trees to get the most benefit – optimum patch densities for landscape/ecological integrity, and visibility providing ‘legibility’ and authenticity.

Colin also shared an insight into their upcoming app release ‘Right Plant Right Place Plant Selector’. If you would like to help test the beta version, please contact Colin at colin.meurk@canterbury.ac.nz

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Links to other webinars in this series

Imagining the Possibilities – Trees in Agriculture Webinar Feb '22 – with Darren J. Doherty, CPAg (AIA) and Greg Hart

Links and resources mentioned in the webinar

Resources provided by Dr Marion Johnson from a series of projects in 2015 relating to Indigenous Agroecology:

• He Ahuwhenua Taketake - Indigenous Agroecolog report (pdf)

• Native plants for animal health (pdf)

• Rongoa Pastures Healthy Animals Resilient Farms (pdf)

• Adapting the Principles of Te Rongoā into ecologically and culturally sustainable farm practice

Other resources mentioned in the webinar:

• INaturalistNZ

• New Zealands Native Trees (book) by John Dawson and Rob Lucas