A Practical Silvoarable Demonstration & Research Project for Ireland

Showcasing the benefits for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, soils, nutrient cycling, water quality, farm productivity and income, and the farming community.

This EIP project has created silvoarable trials and demonstrations at three tillage farms in Ireland.  The aim is to establish a flagship project for the farming community and other stakeholders to visit and learn about silvoarable agroforestry and to demonstrate the multiple benefits to biodiversity, farm sustainability, productivity and the wider landscape. 

The project includes diverse agroforestry systems, from traditional hedgerows, shelter belts, soakage belts and field trees through to more complex grid, matrix and alley systems, with the aim of showing specific benefits to farm biodiversity, carbon sequestration, soil quality, efficient nutrient cycling, water quality, farm productivity and diversity of income streams. 

The project ran from July 2021 to March 2023 with ongoing monitoring, data collection, further tree planting and visiting opportunities for farmers and stakeholders to be continued into the future as the projects establish.

Farmers interested in planting agroforestry with Trees on the Land, please contact us, details below.

Any queries and for more information please contact Imogen Rabone - imogen@treesontheland.com