Six Australian agro-foresters and bushland managers will next week share experiences and techniques with their Japanese counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forester, author and lecturer Rowan Reid and his neighbour, grazier Andrew Stewart, together founded the Otway Agroforestry Network<\/a> over 20 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This led to the Master TreeGrower program<\/a>, which has trained hundreds of landowners in Australia and overseas in farm forestry skills, especially on-site high-quality timber production following appropriate pruning and thinning regimes, at the same time sustaining grazing and cropping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both men continually use their properties to demonstrate agroforestry – and were recently featured in ABC’s Landline<\/a> special on eco-friendly forest plantations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n