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The Agroforestry Research
Trust is delighted to announce that it has acquired a third site near Totnes in
Devon. The 8.8 acre field, near
Littlehempston, will be used to expand the nursery business
as well as host a number of tree-based projects.
The ART will
retain its two existing sites on the Dartington Hall Trust Estate, which host
long term tree-based projects – trials of various tree crops including many nut
trees, and the now well known 17 year old forest garden which was featured in
the BBC’s Farm for a Future.
Martin
Crawford, Director of the ART, said: “This expansion gives us the chance to make
our mail-order nursery operation both
more efficient and more productive, which will further increase the
sustainability of the ART as a whole.
The focus of our two sites in Dartington will be research, demonstration
and education.”
There is
ever-increasing interest in more sustainable growing systems and since the
publication of Martin’s book
‘Creating A Forest Garden’ last year (which was a finalist in the 2010 Garden
Media Guild Practical Book Awards), more people are discovering Forest
Gardening, and wanting to apply it in
their gardens and commercially on farms,
and forestry holdings.
More
information about the work of the
ART, including Guided Tours, can be found at
www.agroforestry.co.uk