Trees for timber may take 20 to 30 years to see a return from sawn timber. There are multitudes of short term benefits such as shade, shelter, integrated pest control, honey, seed and cut flower production not to mention the steady demand for fire wood.

Agroforestry is a term used for growing trees and shrubs for multiple benefits with the trees integrated into the farming system rather than large block plantings for a single end product as is often the case with industrial forestry.

Agroforestry may simply be shelter plantations along fence lines with mixed species. The trees may also be established along streams and drainage lines or used to define land class subdivisions.

Trees, shrubs and herb layer plants make up our revegetation plants for both public land and private landholders. Seed for our revegetation lines is collected locally or grown in our own seed production areas so as to ensure seed viability as well as species and provenance authenticity.