Aland Episode 4 - Hamaruda Farm with Tage

About this episode

In this episode, Tage discusses his family's farm management and the significance of wood pastures in Aland.

In summer 2025 Tree Amble was invited to the Finnish Island of Aland to meet with a group of people trying to safeguard and restore the traditional wood pastures on the island through regenerative practices. The project, run by Patricia Wiklund and her colleagues, is aimed at bringing farmers together to learn and discuss regen techniques and to look at ways of re-evaluating their traditional pastures in a modern way. They still have extremely biodiverse pastures scattered around more intensive farms. Whilst in Aland we met with farmers, project managers, the water company, foresters, chefs and Jenni who is promoting food tourism. We came away with 4 Tree Amble podcasts - this fourth episode is with Tage talking about how he came to be at his family farm, how he manages it with his son and his pride in his wood pastures.

People in this episode

Host: Peter Leeson

Guest: Tage

Topics covered

• regenerative practices
• traditional wood pastures
• food tourism
• biodiversity
• farming techniques

Keywords

• Aland
• regenerative agriculture
• wood pastures
• biodiversity
• farming
• food tourism
• sustainable practices

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hamaruda Farm, water company, foresters

Places: Aland, Finnish Island of Aland

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