Invitation: Future proof your farm forum

More about Rowan Reid?

Rowan (B.For.Sci. & M.For.Sci.) is a forester amongst farmers. He won the Australian Eureka Prize for his farmer course (The Australian Master TreeGrower), which he continues to deliver around Australia and internationally to support farmer and community forestry programs in Africa, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Vanuatu and other countries.

Rowan has lectured a subject in agroforestry at Melbourne University since 1991 and supervised many graduate students. He left full-time academia in 2010 to work more closely with farmers and is now the managing director
of the Australian Agroforestry Foundation (not-for-profit) that delivers farmer education and extension programs around the world, including his Master TreeGrower program.

Most importantly, Rowan is also a farmer and tree grower in his own right, with a family farm in the Otway Ranges of southern Victoria and a founder of one of Australia’s most successful Landcare groups, the Otway Agroforestry Network. More than 12,000 visitors have toured his Bambra Agroforestry Farm, which is set up as a 42-hectare outdoor classroom for farmers, scientists, students and tree lovers, and a living laboratory for his own learning.

Currently Rowan is working full time on his farm growing, harvesting, milling and drying timber and building a new family home.

Rowan’s latest book is "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit".

Find Rowan on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn or visit his website at www.agroforestry.net.au

More about Andrew Stewart?

Andrew and Jill Stewart manage the family grazing property Yan Yan Gurt West Farm in southern Victoria, Australia. Andrew is a fourth-generation farmer on their 575-acre property, producing prime lambs and wool with integrated agroforestry whilst running an educational farm tour business and native flower farming business.

Over 55,000 trees and shrubs have been established, constituting 18 per cent of the property. This has formed a diverse biological infrastructure that supports and enhances traditional agricultural production, whilst providing new opportunities emerging from the agroforestry system.

Andrew coordinates the Otway Agroforestry Network and is a founding member of the Australian Agroforestry Foundation. He has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, a Graduate Diploma in Education and a Graduate Certificate of Forest Science (Farm Forestry). Andrew has been a member of a team delivering many Master TreeGrower Programs including one in Uganda. Andrew served on The Australian Landcare Council and has been involved in Landcare farming and agroforestry education for many years and participated in numerous field days, radio interviews, television programs and written many articles. Andrew co-authored a book with Rowan Reid: Agroforestry: productive trees for shelter and land protection in the Otways.

• In 1999, the Stewart Family won the ‘AFG-Stihl Victorian Treefarmers of the Year.
• Andrew was awarded the Norman Wettenhall Landscape Restoration Fellowship in 2010
• In the 2021 Victorian Landcare Awards: The Australian Government Landcare Farming Award was presented to Andrew and Jill Stewart
• In 2020 Andrew Stewart won the National Bob Hawke Landcare Award: in recognition of leadership and commitment to Landcare, natural resource management and sustainable agriculture.

Find Andrew on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.

Video: Andrew Stewart, Bob Hawke Landcare Award Finalist

Featuring Andrew Stewart and his Yan Yan Gurt West Farm in Southern Victoria.

Landcare Australia.

Video: Reaping the rewards of agri-forestry

A group of landholders in south-west Victoria began growing trees on farms three decades ago and are now reaping the rewards.

Featuring Rowan Reid and Andrew Stewart.

ABC Landline by Tim Lee.