Information on three tree planting designs that are being trialled on seven farms in Devon. Each design has been chosen to suit the grazing requirements of the farmers as well as fitting into the natural environment surrounding the chosen fields.
This detailed site assessment handbook is a complete guide to surveying land prior to woodland creation, to gather the information you need to plant the right trees in the right place. It is intended to be used alongside the Woodland Trust’s Woodland Creation Guide.
The Standards of practice were developed through a synthesis of the large volume of existing best practice guidance for a broad array of restorative activities, from sustainable agriculture to ecological restoration, as well as the recommendations of the Science Taskforce for the UN Decade.
The web page explains the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project’s approach to kelp restoration. Although the page is titled ‘Active restoration’ it actually focuses on explaining the potential drawbacks of active restoration, and why this project is instead taking a passive rewilding approach instead.
This web page briefly describes all the different approaches to monitoring that are being undertaken by the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project, from underwater cameras to eDNA. It does not provide much detail but gives an overview of what might be possible and relevant for similar projects.
This susdrain web page provide links to the CIRIA SuDS Manual, and supporting resources including a list of updated versions of the fact sheets contained in the original manual. The main susdrain website https://www.susdrain.org/resources/ is also a treasure trove of other useful guidance and case studies on SuDS.
This web page hosts links to details of all the options currently included in the Sustainable Farming Incentive funding scheme for England. Currently, this includes options covering arable soils, improved grassland, low-input grassland, hedgerows, agroforestry, moorland management, integrated pest management, and buffer strips.
Short brochure summarising how landowners can support wild pollinators on their land, for farmers, growers, landowners, estate managers, contractors and farm advisers.
This TDAG toolkit for urban trees comes in four parts. Section One covers the financial, social and environmental benefits trees offer in new developments, and how to secure them.
This comprehensive handbook, written in 2019, covers the planning, design and implementation of silvopasture (including grazed orchards), silvoarable, hedgerows, riparian buffers and shelter belts / windbreaks. It also covers costs, benefits, profitability, potential funding sources, and land tenure. Selected case studies are provided by the Woodland Trust.
This website hosts a variety of resources including information on different types of agroforestry and their benefits and constraints, training courses, tours of agroforestry sites, a shop selling seeds, plants and books, consultancy services, and a knowledge exchange network.
The Biodiversity Metric is a spreadsheet tool and associated guidance that can be used to assess the biodiversity outcomes of a land-use change intervention. From February 2024 it will be mandatory to use the Biodiversity Metric to assess planning applications in England.