Forestry Commission farm walk: Agroforestry and Tree Nursery start-up
Wed 28 Jun
|Hilltop Farm, Cold Ashton
Interested in agroforestry, growing your own trees or looking to diversify your farm business? Join the Forestry Commission at Tree Source’s site at Hill Top farm for a talk and tour around their newly established tree nursery and agroforestry site.


Time & Location
28 Jun 2023, 10:00 – 14:00
Hilltop Farm, Cold Ashton, Chippenham SN14 8LA, UK
About the Event
Interested in agroforestry, growing your own trees or looking to diversify your farm business? Join us at Tree Source’s site at Hill Top farm for a talk and tour around their newly established tree nursery and agroforestry site.
Tree Source began business 25 years ago and have since expanded their range of tree related services and enterprises. In their latest venture they are setting up a tree nursery, focusing on nature based techniques. The nursery specialises in growing stock from veteran trees as well as food producing species and species with medicinal properties. Hill Top farm is currently under organic conversion and will be producing organically certified trees from 2025, making it one of the very few organic tree nurseries in the UK.
The event will include;
A tour of the site
Seed sourcing, collecting and growing methods
Tree and woodland establishment techniques