About Ben Raskin

Agroforestry and horticultural consultant, practitioner, author and communicator, Ben chairs the Agroforestry Panel at Fields Good this year.

Ben has worked in the commercial growing world for nearly 30 years and has a wide range of practical horticultural experience, starting his career growing vegetables for chefs, box schemes and farm shops. He now focuses mainly on integrating trees into farming systems.
He is Head of Agroforestry for the Soil Association and keeps his hand in on the field implementing a pioneering agroforestry system on a 1500 acre farm in Wiltshire.
He is the editor of the Agroforestry Handbook and author of “Silvohorticuture” and “The woodchip handbook” and more here: Ben Raskin