Nut growing for south Swedish conditions,
hosted by Holma vocational school

Photo: Visit at Ander Lindén & Rydeholm forestgarden, Anderslöv, southern Sweden

About us/Rotverket

Rotverket: Rotverket AB is a newly started agroforestry consulting agency with focus on southern Swedish conditions. Our consultations includes alley cropping, windbreaks enchancing biodiversity, riparian buffers for streams and lakes, nut growing, food forests/forestgardens. We follow through the whole process, from site analysis to implementation based on our customers interests and preferences.

We advocate for ecosystem services equivalent to wild, forest-like environments where regeneration is set as an equal goal with food production, with a broad palette of species as well as a broad genetic pool in plant individuals, preferably sourced locally.
About us: We are two colleagues within a growing international agroforestry movement. Together we made the film "The forestgarden at Rydeholm" (2022). We have experience from working together at the board of Agroforestry Sweden, an association that promotes knowledge dissemination and increased understanding of agroforestry through conferences, roadtrips, videos, brochures, national and international cooperation and political advocacy work. An example of this is the dialogue that the board of Agroforestry Sweden has had with the Swedish Board of Agriculture  in 2023-24, which has contributed to the Swedish definition "Tree farming"* since 2024 eligible for subsidies.(*The support only covers 'silvoarable agroforestry', a subcategory of Agroforestry).

Maja Lindström Kling


Maja is an award-winning filmmaker (Guldbagge etc.), photographer, graphic designer, project manager and board member of Agroforestry Sweden. Since 2019, she has been making film portrays of agroforestry pioneers. During 2021-2024 she contributed to the implementation of an agroforestry conference in Alnarp, a new website for Agroforestry Sweden, the publication Agroforestry for Swedish conditions (photo & layout) and short films in collaboration with Agroforestry Sweden (see link above). In 2023-25, she arranges the international collaborative project Unhide Agroforestry with support from Erasmus+. paradigmshiftfilm.com
Interview
with Maja, EURAF

Anders Lindén


Anders is a teacher in the course "Nut cultivation for southern Swedish conditions" at Holma folk high school, chairman of the board of Agroforestry Sweden and deputy secretary at the board  of the European agroforestry organization EURAF. As the sixth generation on the Rydeholm family farm in Anderslöv in southern Skåne, Anders has built up an extensive forest garden and demonstration site for Agroforestry with a focus on nut trees and with the sale of forest products for restaurants. During 2022-25, he leads the international collaborative project Unhide Agroforestry with support from Erasmus+. Anders has, among other things, studied agroecology at the Swedish Agricultural University and philosophy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Interview with Anders, EURAF