What can trees offer to growers as we try to cope with climate uncertainty. Heavy rain, strong winds and long periods of drought are all becoming more common. This session will explore how to intelligently integrate trees into horticultural crops to provide resilience in your growing system.
This session will cover the benefits of trees in horticulture, potential tree crops, system design, tree understory, cropping tree crops and potential negative impacts of trees on horticultural crops.
Both speakers have designed, established and managed agroforestry systems and have extensive experience in commercial horticultural crop production.