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In this vlog, Tim Field (Environmental Scientist at Daylesford Organic), discusses progress on a recent Agroforestry project which used a Woodland Trust grant to plant 800 trees on a 30 acre field which currently houses established chicken ranges.

The aim of this planting was to:

Provide shelter for chickens;
Encourage further ranging of chickens and utilise available pasture land;
Create:
fruit orchards and associated business opportunities
diverse shelterbelts
food for pollinators
food for birds
woodchip for the biomass boiler
woodchip for chicken bedding and scratching
mulch for trees
material for the floristry operation
Alder will help fix nitrogen in the soil.
The planting will help fulfill the Soil Association criteria for trees within the range.
There are further potential benefits from intercropping market garden vegetables eg the kale will benefit from the presence of the chickens through improved soil fertility and clean ground. In the second year, kale will provide a flowering cover crop for the chickens and pollinators.