Final Seminar

The Lill-Nägels Agroforestry Pilot Project (2023) held its final seminar on December 1st, at Novia's Campus in Raseborg, Finland. At our final seminar we invited Joel Williams of Integrated Soils to speak to us about the principles of regenerative agriculture, engaged Rikard Korkman- the farm owner- to share his journey into this new way of farming, provided time for the project manager (Joshua Finch) to share the progress and future plans of the site, and Michael den Herder to speak about agroforestry in Finland.

We invited a local multimedia company, Multifoto, to document the event and conduct interviews with willing participants.

Marianne Fred is the Research Manager at Novia's Bioeconomy and Sustainable use of Natural Resources Department. Marianne has been instrumental in bringing the Lill-Nägels Agroforestry concept from the idea stage to a living laboratory in Kirkkonummi.

This is the first of five short interviews from our event. The recordings of the presentations will also be made available in this playlist.

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The Lill-Nägels Project in Brief

The Lill-Nägels Agroforestry site is a forward looking pilot project investigating successional silvoarable agroforestry in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The project's primary goals are to restore soil fertility on degraded agricultural land through farmer-supported biodiverse plant communities; to restart viable regenerative cash cropping; and to broaden the farmer's product portfolio marketed directly to consumers through a CSA.

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Funding Acknowledgements

The Lill-Nägels Agroforestry Pilot Project was publicly funded by EU Development Funds & the Finnish State through Uusimaa's ELY-Center, the private foundation Stiftelsen Finlandssvenska Jordfonden sr. (who were instrumental in the first phase of the project in the latter half of 2022), and Novia University of Applied Sciences.

The project continues as the third work package (WP3) of the "Agroforestry in Nyland" development project, currently funded by EU Rural Development Funds & the Finnish State through Uusimaa's ELY-Center and Novia University of Applied Sciences.

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