Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF)
Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF) works to deliver more sustainable food and farming. LEAF collaborates with farmers, the food industry, scientists and consumers to inspire and enable sustainable farming that is prosperous, enriches the environment and engages local communities.
Partner Contributions
Legumes: The Secret Ingredient for Healthier Soils and Business Success
Event
Join LEAF for an insightful webinar that will explore the environmental and economic benefits of integrating novel legume varieties onto farm.
A Farmer’s Guide to Ash Dieback
Resource
A practical guide designed to help you make informed decisions and take necessary steps to protect people, nature and your business from ash dieback and other tree health issues.
LEAF Surgery: Scaling up Agroforestry
Event
In this surgery LEAF will be considering how economic, practical and cultural factors could influence wide-scale agroforestry across the UK farming landscape.
LEAF Annual Conference – Watch Live
Event
LEAF’s Annual Conference, hosted by BBC broadcaster and journalist, Tom Heap - Watch Live
Delivering Greener Grassland – A Cross-Industry Partnership to Grow Pasture Based Solutions to Climate Change
Blog Post
How can the farming industry be efficient, sustainable and proactive, whilst maintaining profitability, regenerating biodiversity and contributing to ambitious carbon Net Zero targets at national and global level? This is, quite literally, the billion dollar question on many farmers’ lips at the moment - and as the sector comes under increasing pressure to evidence its environmental contribution, it’s a question that’s becoming ever more urgent.
Intercropping for Sustainability conference
Resource
Footage of a discussion held as part of a 3-day intercropping conference that was a collaboration between DIVERSify and ReMIX projects and the Association of Applied Biologists.
DIVERSify: Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability
Research Project
The DIVERSify project aims to ‘optimise the performance of crop species mixtures or ‘plant teams’ to improve yield stability, reduce pest and disease damage, and enhance stress resilience in agricultural systems.’
Simply Sustainable Integrated Pest Management
Resource
An up-to-date, easy to read guidebook and manual on why Integrated Pest Management is the key to sustainable crop health across agricultural and horticultural sectors and how to implement it on-farm. Practical, realistic and concise with case studies from across the LEAF network.
Organic Management Techniques Project
Research Project
This project investigated the viability of transferring agroecological practices more widely across UK agriculture. Agroecological techniques are not exclusive to organic systems and are increasingly being applied by progressive farmers in the non-organic sector...
Biological control (indoors)
Resource
Biological control of pests in indoor production can be applied on both organic and non-organic farms. Find out how and potential benefits you could expect to gain here.
The LEAF Sustainable Farming Review in action
Blog Post
The LEAF Sustainable Farming Review allows farmers to monitor their performance, identify strengths and weaknesses and set targets for improvement across the whole farm.
Soil: Improving Structure and Function
Resource
LEAF Demonstration Farmer Chris Baylis discusses measures put in place to help improve soil structure and drainage on his farm with agricultural advisor Philip Wright.