Field Days

Jeff and Lesley Knight won the Australian Forest Grower "Tree Farmer of the Year Award" for 2002 for their Parkview demonstration tree farm at Towamba near Eden in South Eastern NSW.
Parkview has planned and staged its Management Objectives with the establishment of plantations, animal shelters and Landcare.
There are 25 hectares of Agro-Forestry and wood lots, 20 hectares of hardwoods, and 5 hectares being the 1st Joint Venture with State Forests in NSW with 3 hectares of softwood and Christmas trees.

This mixed species Farm Forestry development offers all visitors the opportunity to learn about timber production on private land. Some of the topics covered include:

· tree establishment techniques
· species identification
· different planting designs
· insect and disease issues
· pruning and thinning of wood lots
· tree species for end wood products
· landcare