The wakelyns experience

摘要

AGROFORESTRY" says Professor Martin Wolfe — plant scientist and boss at Wakelyns, a 60-acre Suffolk farmland 'laboratory' -"is to integrate trees, crops and livestock together in order to get interactions between these components. It's something youdon't get if they're separated out." Martin, like so many of us, is convinced there is a better way to produce the food we eat, and it is through projects like Wakelyns that a path could be found to allow us to apply the principles of agroforestry, so successful in numerous African projects, to a British context. Martin — in his 70s and with a world-class career in plant science behind him — is a pragmatic, practical man. His experiments are designed to be as achievable and commercially viable as possible. Trees are central, naturally.