FARM WALK - Chestnutt's Farm: Soil Biology & Direct Selling
Thu, 17 Aug
|Chestnutt's Farm
Alison and Willaim will share with us their story of selling their produce direct to the consumer. They now sell milk, cream and yogurt, their farm shop also stocks a variety of locally made produce. William will tell us how he manages his soils' biology and show us his Bokashi compost.
Time & Location
17 Aug 2023, 18:00 – 20:00
Chestnutt's Farm, 211 Ballybogey Rd, Portrush BT56 8NE, UK
Guests
About the event
The chestnutts operate a zero grazing dairy with a calf rearing system, a milk vending machine and a farm shop. Â
William is incredibly knowledgable on soil biology, he is using natural products, sowed multi species swards and improving the quality of his farmyard manure using the bokashi method, in order to enhance the life in his soil.
Alison has developed the farms own delicious greek style yogurt and manages the impressive farm shop which supports many local producers.
This will be an interesting evening of soil biology discussions alongside developing a direct selling model on your farm.
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