Will Simonson
2024
Will is Principal Researcher in Agroforestry at the Organic Research Centre, leading ORC’s research in this field including in European collaborations (e.g. AGROMIX, ReForest) and Defra-funded ELMS Tests & Trials. He is based in Cambridge where he undertook doctoral and post-doctoral research in forest ecology and conservation and worked as an environmental scientist in the policy areas of food security and climate change adaptation.
My Sessions
Aiming High for Hedgerows
Hedgerows are an iconic part of the British landscape with lots of practical, ecological and aesthetic value. But an enormous amount of a once extensive hedgerow network has been lost. To address this, in its Environmental Improvement Plan (2023) the Government has set the target to create or restore 30,000 miles of hedgerow by 2037 […]
Wakelyns: 30 Years of Agroforestry Innovation
David Wolfe
Will Simonson
Josiah Meldrum
Henrietta Inman
In March 1994 the first trees of Wakelyns Agroforestry were planted to begin fulfilling the vision of Professor Martin Wolfe and his wife Ann for a sustainable and adaptable farming model based on agroforestry to challenge the status quo of prevailing intensive monoculture. Designed to be a demonstration of different types of agroforestry, which was […]