Talking trees

Trees do a lot more than just take root. Trees on farms improve biodiversity, enhance soils, and sequester carbon all while improving farm productivity and health.

Join our next webinar to learn more about how trees can benefit your farm while being used to generate additional revenue through agroforestry, carbon farming, or biodiversity markets.  
 
Dr Hugh Stewart will join Mike Robinson-Koss and Josh Rigg from the Otway Agroforestry Network to talk about their experience planting and protecting trees on their properties. Bringing together farmers and experts from Agriculture Victoria, this webinar is your chance to learn more about different species and have your questions answered by experts with decades of experience.  

Complementing our Carbon Farming Outreach Program, this is the second of five webinars in 2025, designed to look deeper at carbon farming and how it can complement your on-farm goals for sustainable farming now and into the future. This is part of an ongoing series of events, including free, sector relevant local training – see what’s available near you here.  
   
Submit your questions for the webinar here. 

Mike Robinson-Koss recently retired from managing Otway Greening Ecological Restoration Nursery which he started back in 1994, Mike now has a bit more time to work on his other two loves- namely volunteering at the Bambra Wetlands- a project he initiated for the East Otway Landcare Group in 1989 and his continued work as a peer mentor and ecology and propagation educator for the Otway Agroforestry Network.

Josh Rigg is passionate about the land he lives on and is committed to building a meaningful relationship with it through his work and keen interests in native plants and wildlife, particularly birds and raptors. He’s involved with Otway Greening, a local revegetation nursery, Dalpura, a forestry farm in Gherang, East Otway Landcare, and has recently taken on a mentor role with the Otway Agroforestry Network. He also collaborates with farms practising agroforestry, managing trees for both timber and biodiversity. 

Dr Hugh Stewart's professional career has spanned forestry and agroforestry and in recent years he has researched the role of trees on farms in carbon sequestration. He has also been involved in landcare and catchment management in Victoria for over 30 years. He is a partner in the Stewart family farm ‘Yan Yan Gurt West’ in southern Victoria, a prime lamb and agroforestry business, that has won State and National Landcare awards and featured on the ABC’s ‘Landline’ in 2023.