Gippsland Private Forestry - getting started

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Getting Started

Establishing a farm forestry plantation can be a daunting task, with selecting the right species to plant, the number of trees you require, and what site preparation to use.

Gippsland Private Forestry is here to help you with advice on all aspects of farm forestry.

With private forestry officers in Traralgon and Bairnsdale, their combined 30 years experience in the forest industry will help you along your way.

Best of all, the advice is free, funded through the Australian Governments National Heritage Trust.

Forestry Associations

Gippsland Agroforestry Network (GAN) is branch of the Australian Forest Growers. GAN runs a number of field days each year, so potential tree growers can see first hand what other treegrowers have done in the region. There is a regular newsletter and great networks to help you learn more about farm forestry.

Click here to download GAN membership form

Publications

Getting Started in Farm Forestry discusses some of the issues that the potential tree grower will encounter when thinking about establishing a farm plantation.

Forestry as Agriculture compares the economics of farm plantations to other farming enterprises in a number of case studies.

Design principles for farm forestry (http://www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/AFT/alldesign.pdf) informs farmers how to integrate farm forestry with existing enterprises and how to design tree plantings to capture multiple benefits.