The Inherent Benefits of Agroforestry

The BC government is seriously heel-dragging in moving forward to protect endangered old-growth forests, complex ecosystems that can't be replicated by the ensuing second-growth tree-plantations that they are being replaced with. We need them to move forward to end the logging of endangered old-growth forests, ensure a sustainable, value-added, modernized second-growth forest industry, quickly expand the system of protected areas in the province with critical "solutions space" funding for First

Riverford on Instagram: "What is agroforestry? Simply, it's a way of bringing farming and forestry, more recently treated as separate entities, back together, and specifically, bringing trees back onto agricultural land. This has its challenges, but it also has significant benefits when it comes to soil health, biodiversity and climate resilience, as well as animal welfare and crop diversity. Traditionally, farmers would have coppiced trees, and managed woodland on their farmland. But following

Agroforestry 101: Everything you need to know