SLM Database

A mixture of silvopastoral agroforestry approaches, including extensive and rotational cattle grazing around trees, provide benefits for biodiversity as well as leaf fodder for cattle, edible fruits and nuts, and wood fuel.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/14/2022 12:38 p.m.

Use of diverse herbal leys in dairy production. Provides resilient forage that improves soil health and provides a habitat for biodiversity within a rotational grazing system

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 09/03/2021 12:31 p.m.

The addition of organic matter, such as compost, to soils on farms can enhance soil health with benefits for soil organisms, soil structure, carbon sequestration and plant production.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/01/2021 5:19 p.m.

Silvopastoral Agroforestry in a natural farmed environment – This is an alley cropping system with rows of Perry pears and timber trees inter-planted with coppiced willow and alder. The pasture in between the rows is mob grazed with young dairy stock.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/09/2019 1:39 p.m.