In May 2024 we launched “Unhide Agroforestry”, a knowledge exchange and collaboration between Agroforestry Sweden, represented by Maja Lindström Kling & Anders Lindén (Rotverket AB), Latvian Permaculture Association & MEŽA PROJEKTI/Silava Forest Research Institute with support from Erasmus+. It included 2 road trips to unhide inspiring practicies of agroforestry (and plots with agroforestry elements) in Sweden & Latvia 2023-25. The project have been disseminated from the Swedish side with the film ”I’m a Tree” (below) and presentations at the Urban Food & farming Week at Botildenborg, Malmö, to agroecology students at SLU, Alnarp and during the yearly Nut Network Day at Holma folkhögskola 2024-25. (Read more at Rotverket)
I’m a Tree
”I’m a Tree, what do I need?” is a film portrait of 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 hectar ”off-grid” agroforestry /Food forest system 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.
Agroforestry Sverige 