Great open day today at Teagasc Oakpark today. Lots of exciting and valuable agroforestry and forestry research being undertaking, silvopasture, carbon, disease resistance, CCF and more. Thanks Teagasc Forestry 🌳🌲🌳🌲 Teagasc

Back in Ireland! Presenting Grace Jones work for the Teagasc Forestry 🌳🌲🌳🌲 open day yesterday 😎🥰 Weather was perfect and attendees were on form!

Almost 300 forest owners, foresters and industry stakeholders attended a Teagasc Forestry Open Day yesterday, 4 July at Teagasc, Oak Park, Carlow. This event highlighted the comprehensive sectoral supports provided by Teagasc Forestry 🌳🌲🌳🌲. Read more bit.ly/45PSQFd

🌳 Foresters! IAF, in collaboration with DAFM and Teagasc, is offering FREE Agroforestry FT8 training for you on Aug 19th in Co. Waterford and Aug 26th in Co. Leitrim. Learn about supports, applications and more from key experts! 🌿 30 CPD points. Register rb.gy/yd2g0m

Thinking about integrating agroforestry into your Organic Farm🌳 Join us for an inspiring #Agroforestry Walk at the Chilton's Farm! Boyle, Co. Roscommon 2-4 pm. Learn about organic principles, trees, Dexter cows, chickens and alpacas! Register shorturl.at/DDCJ7

Intensive Agroforestry Training for Farmers in collaboration with our friends at NOTS, includes visit to 30 year old silvopasture site at AFBI Loughgall, do an agroforestry plan for your farm and see what it will look like in 30 years! nots.ie/events/intro-t… Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

New Teagasc Daily about #ContinuFOR at the IUFRO congress 🥳 Cool to see project people from UCD Forestry and Maynooth Biology too! 🤩 Cheers for help writing Ian Short - Forestry Researcher

🌳🚶‍♂️🐄 Explore the benefits of trees on farms at our last agroforestry walks of the season! 🌿 Learn how trees can boost biodiversity, improve soil health, and support livestock. Book your spot now: irishagroforestry.ie/farmwalks 🌱 #Agroforestry #FarmWalks Funded by Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

New Agroforestry Supports Information Booklet! 🌳 Get all the details on Agroforestry support payments + essential tips on planning, design + management. irishagroforestry.ie/ft8booklet Hard copies available at our events in Sep/Oct. Funded by DAFM Forestry Promotion Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photos Silvopasture planted in 1991 on the Gibson Family Farm in Antrim, absolutely thriving! 🌳🐑 I visited this sheep and suckler (Saler) farm first in 1998 and even then the Gibsons recognised agroforestry as a viable economic and environmental option for their marginal land.

Boxes of organic veg on their way to our CROFT project primary schools to refill their handmade willow baskets. Lots more fun making healthy nutritious food + learning about agroforestry. Incollaboration with Biobeo, Teagasc Organic, CELT and funded by Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

🌳🐿️🪵 How can a #tree plantation in Ireland be transformed into a multifunctional forest? Meet the Bresnan family, who have embraced close-to-nature forestry to boost #forest #resilience & enhance #biodiversity➡️bit.ly/3V2wP1s

FULL FEATURE: forestryjournal.co.uk/features/fores…

Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Duit As we reflect🎄 on the year that has passed, we are grateful for the growing interest and support for agroforestry in Ireland. We look forward to continuing sharing knowledge + connecting farmers, researchers + policymakers in 2025

📰 A new paper from Forest Research’s Dr Andrew Leslie and Teagasc’s Dr Ian Short in the RoyalForestrySociety Quarterly Journal of Forestry, reviews the published literature on the benefits of mixed broadleaf and mixed conifer and broadleaf stands. It concludes that mixed stands can

Interested in wildlife ecology, field work, sustainable land management? The Forest Ecology and Global Change lab Maynooth Biology is seeking a MSc candidate to investigate the impact of deer on forage production in grasslands. Closing date June 20th.

🌳 In the latest issue of the RoyalForestrySociety Quarterly Journal of Forestry, Dr Andrew Leslie, Head of Silviculture and Wood Properties, talks about the benefits of broadleaf mixed species stands and tools to establish your own. Read the article: rfs.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

The Summer 2025 issue of TResearch is out now, with a focus on forestry! Meet the AshforFuture team, who are using citizen science to support ash recovery. You can read about this and other forestry topics in the latest issue here bit.ly/3SUfruw

Seeing the forest for trees. Forestry Senior Research Officer Ian Short talks us through recent advances in closer-to-nature forestry, and why agroforestry means more than just land grants for growers. Read the full article in #TResearch here bit.ly/3ZDB8mq

Integrating trees and hedgerows in livestock systems boosts animal welfare, farm resilience, and nutrition—and lowers input costs! We look at Dr Lindsay Whistance's research on the benefits... Find out more👇 farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/2025/07/25/ani… #Agroforestry #Silvopasture #TreesinFarming