Gary Patterson

There's three different kind of spaces that we've done.

In here, there's eight meters between the alleys and three meters between the trees.

So we can cut silage through here.

These are individually planted trees, so they have two stakes and a tree guard.

So we have sheep in this area because the cattle would

would graze the top of the trees and then out the front where we came in and down the back here they're planted in groups so kind of rectangular areas with four rows of trees planted and it's fenced off so we have cattle in those areas and I suppose like for most farmers when they think about forestry they think about

yeah, like losing their land whereas with this system the animals get to benefit from the trees and the trees benefit from the animals.

I'm trying to like mob graze cattle so move cattle around.

What I notice when I move them is when I move them onto fresh ground they always go to the ditches and they go to the sides and they'll browse on the trees that are here already.

We're really lucky to have loads of trees here already.

But the different trees have different minerals and nutrients in them.

So the animals are very intelligent.

They like, you know, it's like us.

I compare, you know, animals eating ryegrass to us eating porridge all day, every day.

So if they have a variety in their diet, they're getting different minerals, different nutrients.

And yeah, they're a lot healthier and happier that way.

A foot and a half.

That's what they went in at.

In about 10 years, what will happen is the crown or the canopy of the trees will start to touch and will probably start to thin out the trees.

So at the minute they're planted at, I think it's 300 trees per hectare.