Case Studies - Matthias

This episode was recorded at the GROUNDED Festival 2026, held at Yan Yan Gurt West Farm in Deans Marsh, Victoria, Australia. We thank Grounded for the permission to reproduce it on our channel. We recommend you take a look at their Grounded Live channel where you will find all the presentations from the Festival. In this talk, trained forester and agroforestry pioneer Rowan Reid explores the role of trees on the family farm. Drawing on more than three decades of experience g...

One of a series of interviews with Otway Agroforestry Network members. Find out why people plant trees, what benefits they gain and how they overcome obstacles. Episode 2: David A video version can be accessed on our website oan.org.au

One of a series of interviews with Otway Agroforestry Network members. Find out why people plant trees, what benefits they gain and how they overcome obstacles. Episode 1: John and Karen A video version can be accessed on our website oan.org.au

OAN (Otway Agroforestry Network Ltd) is a Landcare group based in southwest Victoria, Australia. The Network educates and encourages landholders to establish and manage trees on their properties for all the reasons important to the landholder whether it be for sheltering farm stock and crops, controlling soil erosion and dryland salinity, enhancing property values, sequestering carbon generating alternative sources of income and all the while reaping many and varied environmental bene...

What gets us up in the morning? What makes us tick? Why are we doing the things we do on our properties? Why do we love what we do? In this episode, members of the OAN discuss aesthetics, wellbeing, livelihoods, capital value, listening to the birds and enjoying the work we do on our farms.