A collaboration between Agroforestry Sweden, represented by Maja Lindström Kling & Anders Lindén, Latvian Permaculture Association & Meža projekti/Silava, Latvian forest research institute, with support from Erasmus+. The title “Unhide Agroforestry” encourages to discover the invisible and potential work of trees on agricultural land, and included 2 road trips to unhide inspiring practices of agroforestry (and plots with agroforestry elements) in Sweden & Latvia 2024. The project was disseminated from the Swedish side with the film "I'm a Tree" 2024 (below) and presentations at the Urban Food & farming Week at Botildenborg, Malmö, to agroecology students at SLU in Alnarp, Sweden and during the yearly "Nut Network Day" at Holma folkhögskola, Sweden, 2024. The project is now closed. (More info comming soon at Rotverket)

A booklet? We have applied for grants from SweLatFund to produce a separate booklet- to present farms visited and to express personal observations and evaluations as participants in the "Unhide Agroforestry" projekt - with the aim to reach a wider group of people in both countries, and to profile our work as consultants and communicators of agroforestry. 

I'm a Tree

"I'm a Tree, what do I need?" is a film portraying the Latvian forest owner and forester Agnis Graudulis, who for several years collected seeds of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), walnut (Juglans regia) and much more in Nordic and Baltic countries, with the aim to get as broad genetic diversity as possible, and has since built a 50 hectare Food forest system (Vadakste Biodiversity Forest) with great dedication of labor to the plantings, nature-based solutions to water management and biodiversity. Runningtime 20 min. Photography, editing, production: Maja Lindström Kling.