"Two ways to encourage more farmers to plant more trees - help with cost and help with information." says Harriet Bell at Riverford Farm. Agroforestry, the growing of trees on farms, has been shown to provide many benefits to farming and more widely - as we have seen in previous films in the 'Wood for the Trees' series. But there is surprisingly small uptake of these practices in the UK compared to other European countries. Charly traveled to Devon (twice) to talk to Harriet Bell, the Regenerative farming lead for Riverford Organic Farms, about some of the reasons she sees that are holding back UK Agroforestry.
Wood for the trees is a series exploring the future of UK forests, from a broad range of perspectives. The series is from film-maker and environmentalist Charly Le Marchant and sawmiller and British timber merchant Tom Barnes. Agroforestry in the UK was edited, produced and filmed by Charly.