On Thursday 28 June, the Finnish RAIN and Gifts from Metsä organised a mushroom workshop in Karjalohja in southern Finland. Seventeen stakeholders participated in the training session. Most of them were farmers, people who just started a mushroom business or had plans to start one, researchers and people who would like to grow mushrooms in their own garden or […]
AFINET project has visited Herdade dos Lagos, an organic, multifunctional farm, located in Vale de Acor – Mértola, Alentejo, on the 19th of June, accompanied by EDIA, which arranged for the visit. AFINET visited Herdade dos Lagos, accompanied by EDIA, which arranged for this visit to happen. This sustainable organic farm grazes their olive grove, vineyard and […]
Twenty-eight stakeholders, mostly farmers, researchers and NGO’s attended the alley cropping field trip which was held on the 15th of June 2018 in Pusula in southern Finland at the Kilpiän tila farm. Kilpiän tila, a 75-hectare organic farm, managed by Tuomas and Iiris Mattila, adapted very well to an exceptionally dry start of the Finnish summer. […]
The 4th European Agroforestry Conference “Agroforestry as Sustainable Land Use” took place in Nijmegen (European Green Capital 2018), The Netherlands, between 28th and 30th May 2018. The conference brought together over 250 people from the five continents. The opening of the conference was carried out by María Rosa Mosquera-Losada, President of EURAF and coordinator of the AFINET […]
The 2nd European Symposium on Pollarding was held in Sare, France from the 1st to the 3rd of March 2018. It was organised by the French Agroforestry Association (AFAF), Euskal Herriko Laborantza Ganbara (EHLG), Maison Botanique de Boursay and Arbre et Paysage 32, with support from the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) the Organic Research Centre (ORC) and […]
