Bambra Agroforestry Farm

Bambra Agroforestry Farm - It's OK to harvest trees

In 1987 we purchased a small farm in the foothills for the Otway Ranges. My idea was to make forestry - even the act of cutting trees down - attractive to farmers and the wider community. We plant trees because we need trees (land, water, soil, shelter), we manage them to maximise the range of values they offer, we are happy to wait for the trees to grow because we enjoy watching them change the landscape, and, when the time it right, we harvest because we can, and because timber is a renewable and beautiful resource.

The way we harvest doesn't take the land back to how it was before, it takes our forests to the next level.

Rowan Reid (Forest Scientist)