Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through diversity

Summary

Integrating trees for timber, energy and fruit production into an organic crop rotation, Wakelyns (a 22.5-hectare innovative farm) was established by the late plant pathologist Professor Martin Wolfe to put into action his theories of agrobiodiversity being the answer to achieving sustainable and resilient agriculture. The farm has been the focus of research into organic crop production and agroforestry for over 20 years and continues to be a source of inspiration for those practicing or studying agroforestry. Some of the key theories investigated at Wakelyns and the evidence produced by Martin and researchers from the Organic Research Centre are summarised in this publication, which is invaluable to any farmer or land manager with an interest in carrying out agroforestry on their land.