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Heartwood Podcast

by Rowan Reid

Welcome to our new Podcast series. I'll be sharing my 40 years experience in growing trees on farms for both conservation and profit with stories from our own farm and interviews with some of the many farmers I have worked with around Australia.  Key words: Forestry, Farm Forest, Forester, Trees, Agroforestry, Regenerative Agriculture, Landcare, Timber, Lumber, Sawmilling, Bushfood, Carbon, Biodiversity, Soil Conservation, Farming, Environment, PlantationI'm open to suggestions for content and am happy to takes questions.Hope you like it.Rowan I'm a forest scientist (B.For.Sci. & M.For.Sci.), author, educator and a tree grower with a family farm in the Otway Ranges of southern Victoria, Australia. We call it the Bambra Agroforestry Farm and grow more than 70 different species for conservation and profit. After almost 40 years we're now harvesting and milling our own trees, building a house from the timber and selling tree products.I was also a co-founder of one of Australia’s most successful Landcare groups, the Otway Agroforestry Network and the originator of the Australian Master TreeGrower program. I have worked with farmers in many countries including the USA, UK, Europe, Uganda, Kenya, Indonesia, Vanuatu and Timor Leste. I have written many books about tree growing: the latest is "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit". WWW: www.agroforestry.net.au  EMAIL: rowan.reid@agroforestry.net.au FACEBOOK: @bambraagroforestry LINKED IN: Rowan Reid INSTAGRAM: bambra_agroforestry_farmYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@bambraagroforestryfarm4008  And, thanks to Mountain Grey for our theme music. They are a local Otway band. Check out their music at: https://www.reverbnation.com/mountaingrey #Trees #Timber #agroforestry #farmforestry #sawmilling #lumber #forestry

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#6 Thinning to grow fat trees fast(er)

Thinning may be the most controversial and poorly understood aspect of growing trees. Whether for conservation, timber or both, competition between trees may be slowing t

Feb 22
52 min

#5 Building our Home-Grown Home from Farm-Grown Timber

We've spent 5 years building our new farmhouse. Almost all the timber (or lumber) came from trees we planted, pruned, harvested and milled on the farm. You could say

Oct 10 2025
58 min

#4 Changing forestry so it works for farmers

Can we change forestry to make it attractive to family farmers? In this episode Rowan Reid reflects on the history of forestry on farms in Australia and his involvement o

Apr 26 2025
1 h 03 min

#3 Pruning Works - for high quality timber

My guest to talk about pruning trees for high quality timber is Josquin Tibbits; professional Arborist and Forest Scientist. Josky has been harvesting and milling pruned

Dec 9 2024
1 h 07 min

#2 The Farmer and the Forester

Andrew Stewart is a multi-award winning farmer in the Otways in southern Victoria, Australia. I'm a forest scientist with a small tree farm in the next valley. For m

Oct 25 2024
1 h 00 min

#1: Portable sawmills for farmers

David Jenkins grows eucalypt sawlogs and has a 10 inch Lucas Mill on his beef farm near Bridgetown in Western Australia. I have a Hardwood Mills GT40 Horizontal Bandsaw o

Sep 24 2024
46 min

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