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The Farmer's Forest: Multipurpose Forestry For Australian Farmers

 
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The Farmer's Forest is an excellent test that is made available for free to all MTG participants

 

'The Farmer's Forest' is the manual for the Australian Master TreeGrower Program plus much more. "The Forest' provides all the information participants will need to know as well as helpful information on the philosophy and framework of the MTG program.

Written in 2001 by Rowan Reid and Peter Stephen the book is provided to participants at the start of each course. All chapters from 'The Farmers Forest' are provided below for download as pdf files.

*** To access the above evaluation reports and much of the published material presented on this site, you will need to have downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe web site. It is FREE ***

CHAPTER 1: Agroforestry and Farm Forestry: It's about farmers growing forests of course!

CHAPTER 2: Integrating farm forestry into your farm

CHAPTER 3: CASE STUDY, Rowan's Story: Bambra Agroforestry Farm

CHAPTER 4: Markets for farm forestry products and services

CHAPTER 5: Tree and forest measurement

CHAPTER 6: Measurement of a Teak plantation (NT)

CHAPTER 7: The art of farm silviculture

CHAPTER 8: CASE STUDY, David's Story: Jenkin's Agroforestry Developments

CHAPTER 9: Economics and farm forestry

CHAPTER 10: CASE STUDY, Pete's Story: Of using, abusing and then ignoring the economics

CHAPTER 11: Farmers doing on-farm research

CHAPTER 13: About the Australian Master TreeGrower Program

Cost and Ordering

The Farmer's Forest is now available for just $20 (including GST and postage and handling) from:

Australian Master TreeGrower Inc. (ABN: 73 417 297 033)
PO Box 62
Birregurra 3242
Australia.

Please make cheques payable to 'Australian Master TreeGrower Inc'. Credit card facilities are also available.

For More Information About Ordering 'The Farmer's Forest' Please Contact:

Marianne Stewart
PO Box 62
Birregurra 3242
Australia.

Phone: (03) 5236-3244

Email: yanyangurt@bigpond.com

 


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