Heartwood Podcast
Episodes
#6 Thinning to grow fat trees
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thinning may be the most controversial and poorly understood aspect of growing trees. Whether for conservation, timber or both, competition between tr...
#5 Building our Home-Grown Home from Farm-Grown Timber
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've spent 5 years building our new farmhouse. Almost all the timber (or lumber) came from trees we planted, pruned, harvested and milled on the...
#4 Changing forestry so it works for farmers
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can we change forestry to make it attractive to family farmers? In this episode Rowan Reid reflects on the history of forestry on farms in Australia a...
#3 Pruning Works - for high quality timber
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest to talk about pruning trees for high quality timber is Josquin Tibbits; professional Arborist and Forest Scientist. Josky has been harvesting...
#2 The Farmer and the Forester
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Stewart is a multi-award winning farmer in the Otways in southern Victoria, Australia. I'm a forest scientist with a small tree farm in th...
#1: Portable sawmills for farmers
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Jenkins grows eucalypt sawlogs and has a 10 inch Lucas Mill on his beef farm near Bridgetown in Western Australia. I have a Hardwood Mills GT40 ...