Farmer Profiles

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Vital Veg, North Tillydaff Farm, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire

Listen here Agricology · Agricology in the Field - Wendy Seel Wendy Seel set up Vital Veg with her partner Anne Taylor in 2005 on...

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Papley Grove Farm, St Neots, Cambridgeshire

I am a third-generation farmer and contractor and grow mainly arable crops on the family farm and rented land. The farm is just over 400...

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Scilly Organics, St Martins, Isles of Scilly

Listen here Agricology · Agricology In The Field - Jonathan Smith Jonathan Smith grows organic fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers on the island of St...

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Wimpole Home Farm, Cambridge

Wimpole Home Farm is an organic 589 hectare (1,419 acre) mixed livestock and arable farm near Cambridge. It is part of the National Trust ’s...

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Hendred Estate, Wantage, South Oxfordshire

Listen here Agricology · Julian Gold Farmer Profile Julian Gold is farm manager of 800 hectares of Hendred Estate in Oxfordshire on the edge of...

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Wild Geese Acres, Holcombe Rogus, mid Devon

We are a small off-grid, organic farm in mid Devon that is part of a cluster of 3 small holdings at Greenham Reach, a pioneering...

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RSPB Hope Farm, Knapwell, Cambridgeshire

The RSPB bought Hope Farm, a conventional arable farm in Cambridgeshire, in 2000, with the aim of developing and trialling farming techniques which produce food...

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RBOrganic Farm, Houghton, Norfolk

RBOrganic is a vegetable growing business that forms part of Houghton Hall Estate in Norfolk. We have a long-term relationship with Houghton and are a...

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East Lenham Farm, Kent

East Lenham Farm is a mixed farm in the heart of Kent, covering about 1,200 acres, the majority of which is in arable rotation, the...

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Manor Farm, Leicestershire

I currently manage Manor Farm, a 1,000 acre estate on the Leicestershire borders, which focuses on regenerative land management to restore soil health and productivity,...

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Durhamfield Farm, Shotley Bridge, Northumberland

I am a fifth-generation farmer and farm in south Northumberland in partnership with my father. Durhamfield farm is mainly arable (2,000 acres); the remaining 700...

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Gardners Farm

We are a mixed farm set across 1600 acres of Cotswold Brash, the stony, thin and relatively heavy soils that run through Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and...

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Great Wollaston Farm

Great Wollaston is a 242 acre mixed family farm on the edge of the Shropshire Hills on the English/Welsh border. We grow winter wheat and...

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Bockhanger Farms Ltd

We grow winter milling wheat as our main crop. This goes into mills (normally on the Thames) for bread-making. The majority of our wheat is...

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Pitt Hall Farm, Kingsclere Estates Ltd.

We produce (on average) conventional wheat at 7.8 tonnes/hectare (milling and feed), barley (malt and feed) at 6.5 tonnes/hectare, beans (for human consumption) at 2.5...

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Whitehall Farm

We mainly produce cereals: spring wheat (1.6 - 1.7 tonnes per acre, 13.5% protein for milling), winter wheat (2 tonnes per acre), spring barley (malting),...

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Shimpling Park Farm

Our crops are all grown for specific markets. We grow organic wheat, barley and beans for British Quality Pigs’s organic herd, which are sold in...

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Tolhurst Organic Partnership CIC

​Tolhurst Organic is located on the Hardwick Estate in south Oxfordshire, between the Chilterns and the river Thames. The farm is made up of 17...

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Allerton Project, Loddington Estate

The Allerton project has been researching farm ecosystems and the effects of different farming methods on wildlife and the environment for over 20 years. As...