Woodchips are an incredible way to build long-term soil quality, and they’re 100% plant-based too! Though any wood-based material needs to be used very strategically in a farm or garden setting, in order to reap the benefits without the drawbacks. In this talk, Iain will share how he has turned low-grade land into high-quality soil by using agroforestry techniques. He’ll share how they’ve added rows of trees between the vegetable fields, which they can coppice and use to make ramial chipped wood (from branches under 7cm in diameter), and how they incorporate this in the green manure stage of their crop rotation. Plus he’ll show you how they reclaim woodchips from local tree surgeons, and compost it in piles to create a high-quality compost that they can use to amend their fields or grow seedlings.