Agroforestry Training Dates 2025: LFI Certificate Course 2025, Agroforestry Training Events, new FIBL Information Materials on Agroforestry

Dear agroforestry enthusiasts,

in 2025 there will again be a number of agroforestry educational events in Austria.

Below you will find as follows:

• LFI certificate course agroforestry in Lower Austria - from 10.2.2025
• Agroforestry training events in chronological order
• New FIBL information materials on agroforestry

Agroforestry training dates 2025:

2nd LFI certificate course 2025 - start 10.2.2025, Lower Austria:

Following the successful first course on agroforestry in Austria in 2024, another comprehensive LFI course on agroforestry will now take place in 2025. In 6 modules (14 attendance days) and 8 online units, you will gain an in-depth overview of various agroforestry systems.

Many aspects relating to the management, practice and planning of agroforestry systems will be covered in the course. There will also be a large number of excursions. During the course you will also be supported in designing your own agroforestry system. You can find more information about the course under the following link:

>> Zertifikatslehrgang Agroforst | LFI Niederösterreich

Courses and webinars 

30.1.2025 – Agroforestry Day at the BIO AUSTRIA Farmers' Days, in Puchberg near Wels (Upper Austria)
>> Agroforsttag – BIO AUSTRIA Bauerntage, Bäuerinnentage - BIO AUSTRIA

from 4.2.2025 – Webinar: erennial vegetables - plant once, harvest several times
>> Webinar: Mehrjähriges Gemüse – einmal pflanzen, mehrfach ernten | LFI Niederösterreich

25.2.2025 – Webinar: Agroforestry systems in grassland - tips on construction and establishment
>> Webinar: Agroforstsysteme im Grünland - Tipps zu Aufbau und Etablierung - BIODIV im ÖPUL 2023 | LFI Tirol

20.+21.3.2025 – Vitiforst – how do I integrate woody plants into my vineyard? In Krems/Danube (Lower Austria)
>> Vitiforst - wie integriere ich Gehölze in meinen Weingarten? LFI Niederösterreich

8.4.2025 – Agroforestry: reconnecting traditional systems of land and forest use; in Leonding (Upper Austria)
>> Agroforst: Traditionelle Systeme von Land- und Forstnutzung wieder verbinden | LFI Oberösterreich

3.5.2025 – Forest garden excursion, in Allhartsberg (Mostviertel, Lower Austria)
>> Waldgarten | PIA

4.5.2025 – Day course: Perma-Veggies - Perennial vegetables and edible perennials, in Allhartsberg (Mostviertel, Lower Austria)
>> Tageskurs Perma-Veggies – Permakultur Austria Akademie

3.6.2025 – Agroforestry systems: Cultivation models of the future, in Klagenfurt
>> Agroforstsysteme: Anbau-Modelle der Zukunft | LFI Kärnten

24.6.2025 – The mulberry - culture, production and use of a promising fruit variety; in Mautern an der Donau, Krems-Land district (Lower Austria)
>> Die Maulbeere – Kultur, Produktion und Verwendung einer zukunftsträchtigen Obst-Gattung | LFI Niederösterreich

10.9.2025 – Agroforestry and market gardening - a successful symbiosis; in Neustift, district of St.Pölten Land (Lower Austria)
>> Agroforst und Marktgärtnerei - eine gelungene Symbiose | LFI Niederösterreich

12.9.2025 – GrunBasics of professional organic almond production; in Zellerndorf, district of Hollabrunn (Lower Austria)
>> Grundlagen der professionellen Bio-Mandel-Produktion | LFI Niederösterreich

FIBL Austria has published some new information material on agroforestr:

A busy year has come to an end, so there is a lot of new information material on our download page, e.g:

• A new movie on the maintenance of agroforestry systems: >>Pflege von Agroforstanlagen, another movie will go online in the next few days
• A review in pictures of the agroforestry conference in Wels: >> Tagung 2024 - Agroforst - FiBL Österreich
• The project results from the StartClim project “Agroforestry - how trees in the field can contribute to solving the biodiversity and climate crisis” >> StartClim Ergebnisse und Methode - Agroforst - FiBL Österreich
• A new brochure “More trees, more benefits. Advantages of agroforestry systems for agriculture and the environment”, including test results and the various options for including agroforestry systems in the funding system in Austria and more information on the new ‘agroforestry strips’ measure, will be available online shortly (here the AMA leaflet)

DI Roland Teufl
Consulting Agroforestry & Regenerative Agriculture
Organic education
BIO AUSTRIA Lower Austria and Vienna
Matthias Corvinusstraße 8/UG
3100 St. Pölten
M +43 676-842 214 345
E roland.teufl@bio-austria.at
www.bio-austria.at