For The Love Of Trees

One of a series of interviews with Otway Agroforestry Network members.  Find out why people plant trees, what benefits they gain and how they overcome obstacles.   Episode 3:  MatthiasA video version can be accessed on our website oan.org.au

One of a series of interviews with Otway Agroforestry Network members.  Find out why people plant trees, what benefits they gain and how they overcome obstacles.   Episode 2:  DavidA video version can be accessed on our website oan.org.au

One of a series of interviews with Otway Agroforestry Network members.  Find out why people plant trees, what benefits they gain and how they overcome obstacles.   Episode 1:  John and KarenA video version can be accessed on our website oan.org.au

OAN (Otway Agroforestry Network Ltd) is a Landcare group based in southwest Victoria, Australia.  The Network educates and encourages landholders to establish and manage trees on their properties for all the reasons important to the landholder whether it be for sheltering farm stock and crops, controlling soil erosion and dryland salinity, enhancing property values, sequestering carbon generating alternative sources of income and all the while reaping many and varied environmental benefits for the property and the wider community.  For over 27 years of mentoring landscape change, it is clearly evident that the OAN approach is working.

What gets us up in the morning?  What makes us tick?  Why are we doing the things we do on our properties?  Why do we love what we do?  In this episode, members of the OAN discuss aesthetics, wellbeing, livelihoods, capital value, listening to the birds and enjoying the work we do on our farms.