Organisation: Farmerama

Abby Rose shares some key learnings from the 2019 Wageningen Soil Conference.

Family farm conflicts, benefits of compost teas, preventing disease in apple orchards, how community-owned farms can work – it’s all here in this podcast from Farmerama…

Farmerama podcast that includes ADAS soil scientist Lizzie Sagoo talking about soil health and soil organic matter at the Agricology Field Day in January.

Abby Rose introduces the new Soilmentor app, designed to help farmers test and monitor soil health in the field.

Farmerama podcast presenting some interesting reflections from ORFC 2018; including the benefits of making sainfoin an essential part of your ley farming system.

Jake Freestone talks about his experiences of growing oilseed rape with buckwheat and vetch and highlights benefits he has observed.

No-dig market garden expert Charles Dowding tells of his findings over the years, experimenting with digging and not digging his soils.

John Cherry talks about his experiences of converting to no-till and mob grazing – with regard to managing black-grass and renewed fertility in the soil.

​Podcast looking at simple low-cost tools to support moving cattle in a mob-grazing system.

In September 2015, 42 people; a motley bunch of bakers and bankers, neighbours and scientists each co-invested £200 in a field of wheat in fertile Lincolnshire. The field is owned by conventional arable farmer Peter Lundgren, who (in a moment of madness) agreed to let these 42 people help decide what he was going to do with his 20 acre field that year.