AGROFORESTRY

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ROTVERKET AB

Rotverket (RootWorks) is a Swedish limited liability company jointly owned by us; Anders Lindén and Maja Lindström Kling, and serves, since 2024, as a shared platform for assignments, projects and cross-country collaborations in which we are involved, together or individually. Our collaboration began in the summer of 2022 at Rydeholm, where Maja and her family stayed for several weeks — an encounter that resulted in the film The Forest Garden at Rydeholm, based on interviews with Anders. From 2023 to 2025, we worked closely together on the board of Agroforestry Sweden. Today we're an active part of a growing European Agroforestry network. About us. Interview with Maja Lindström Kling. Interview with Anders Lindén.

Maja's LinkedIn & youtube for updates

AgrOFORESTRY - A CARETAKER's DEVOTION IN A POST FOSSIL FUEL ECONOMY

Agroforestry is an umbrella term for ancient, food-producing systems adapted to contemporary practice, suitable for farmlands, meadows, pastures, forests, forest edges, and along waterways, where diverse woody plants are integrated with crops and/or livestock to provide ecosystem services that restore, revitalize, and stabilize edible, productive regenerative landscapes. Photo used with permission; Wakelyns Agroforestry, G. Gugenheim. Wakelyn's Tree Management Booklet (2026) Majas LinkedIn posts: Wakelyns — designed over 30 y ago to research and demonstrate silvoarable agroforestry, Part I. Wakelyns agroforestry – Wildlife (in a way) as livestock & tree crops instead of emergency stock, Part II.

A presentation of selected European Agroforestry examples. Also read: Agroforestry for Swedish conditions and Unhide Agroforestry. Swedish_Agroforestry_Reports_RootWorks___Agroforestry_Sweden_-3.jpg

Rooted in practice, Connected across borders

Since starting Rotverket, we’ve become especially passionate about creating and participating in international, on-site knowledge exchanges between practitioners, framed by a daily sociocratic dialogue structure that ensures everyone is seen and heard. To date, we’ve helped lead two international collaborations through Agroforestry Sweden: the Swedish–Latvian Unhide Agroforestry (Erasmus+) and the Swedish–Ukrainian FarmForce (SI). We’ve also participated in the Food Forests and the Landscape Restoration Advanced Masterclass with Wouter van Eck and prof Euridice Leyequien, in the Netherlands. Photo: Wakelyns Agroforestry, UK. Photo; Ketelbroek Food Forest, the Netherlands 2025.

Close-to-nature nut growing in agroforestry – Rydeholm Food Forest & Farm

We offer consultations and lectures on alley cropping, biodiversity-enhancing windbreaks, riparian buffers along streams and lakes, and food forests and forest gardens — with a strong focus on Castanea sativa, Juglans regia, Corylus spp., Pinus koraiensis, Prunus dulcis, Ginkgo biloba, and Araucaria araucana.

Our work combines nut and perennial crop production with crisis preparedness, cash crops, and the long-term enhancement of biodiversity. We support projects throughout the entire process, from site analysis and species selection to design and implementation. For more info, contact Anders or READ MORE.

Maja's Linkedin text: A Nordic grassroots movement is introducing nut trees into Scandinavian landscapes and The man who brought agroforestry from East Africa to Sweden with VI-agroforestry and planted a “preparedness forest” in the 1990s.

updates

agroforestry conference in switzerland, june 2026

The 8th European European Agroforestry Conference in Neuchâtel, hosted by Agroscope, gave us the long-awaited opportunity to meet colleagues from across Europe in person, exchanging ideas, experiences and perspectives — leaving us deeply inspired and energized. A major highlight of the event was the closing General Assembly, where Anders Lindén was re-elected to the board of EURAF, now stepping into the role of Vice President.

Other highlights from the week included: a lecture on hands-on syntropic alley cropping system establishment in European landscapes, tailored for a changing climate, crucial practical insights into restoring water dynamics in arid and Mediterranean climates, a field visit to a traditional, grazed sweet chestnut orchard and a newer one, and a visit to the hart of Swiss Transhumance in the Jura Region. This seasonal livestock movement practice was a powerful reminder that landscapes are not static, but living processes—shaped over generations through continuous movement, deep relationships, and active caretaking. Photo: alley cropping with walnut, hazel, maple etc in the Jura region, Switzerland. Maja's LinkedIn text; Animal & tree species diversity in Swiss Transhumance and Syntropic alley cropping = priceless resilience! 🌞

collaboration on forest grazing as nature conservation with plockhugget & Regenerative sweden, 2026

We are happy to announce that the Swedish Forest Agency has approved our application for project funding for nature conservation through forest grazing and forest edge management. Plockhugget AB is the project lead, with Regenerative Sweden as co-partner. RootWorks will produce six short films as part of the project. The 3-year project will also include webinars, field days, two-day and three-day training courses, online meetings, and on-site advisory visits for individual forest owners. The short films will be used as educational material during the courses, and published on youtube. Photo: forest grazing at Anders Rydén, Småland. Maja's LinkedIn text; Questioning the destructive structure of industrial agriculture is far more economically and politically difficult than supporting native flower strips and An important key to sustainable farming is found in the forest edge!

Farmforce

As a project leader on behalf of Agroforestry Sweden, Anders Lindén organised a study tour across Sweden in May 2026 for participants in the Swedish–Ukrainian FarmForce project (2024–2026).

The tour created opportunities for exchange with farmers, agroforestry pioneers, and local initiatives working to strengthen small-scale food production and local food systems in Ukraine — both of which have played a crucial role in maintaining food security during the war.

Funded by SI, the project is carried out in collaboration with Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and WWF-Ukraine. The project was presented at the 2026 agroforestry conference in Neuchâtel. Photos below; stills from films in production 2026.

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Walnut & sweet chestnut harvest from rewilded trees, Baskemölla, southern Sweden