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How are you incorporating trees into your farming system? Share your plans and experiences.
Species-rich grasslands require suitable grazing to maintain their diversity. Share experiences of conservation grazing!
Do you need access to land to try out some innovative farming practices? Do you have land but need someone to work it?
Is there potential to restore the linen industry or should we look to new materials - biocomposites?
Fruit, veg, herbs, salad, flowers ...the demand for locally grown produce is increasing.
We're all agreed that things are going to change in farming. What support is out there to help us try new things?
Chose any or all of the topics on the competition page, create a post sharing your farms story for a chance to win!
Soil conservation is critical - let's pool our knowledge about it. Follow this topic to stay up to date.
What are you doing to improve your pastures? What works and what doesn't? Share your views and experiences.
Share info about any new grant schemes or programmes and feedback about any you've experienced.
Robots, swarm technology, AI (artificial intelligence), Machine Learning, Blockchain, how can technology help on farms?
Lots of new (and old) systems and approaches to sustainable agri. Use this space to share info.
Welcome! Have a look around and join the conversations on the fastest growing area of soil amendments.
- HorticultureWe are going for it! AJ's Farm Shop, Rock Farm and Creeve Cottage are amongst the growers coming together this summer to offer a veg box scheme. We have worked out a planting plan that should provide enough produce for 100 boxes - that's a lot easier with a group of growers. We'll bring it all to our hub at AJ's Farm shop for packing on a Friday morning. Then boxes will go out to our collection points. We are keeping it simple, customers subscribe for their 8 item box, which they can collect on a Friday afternoon or all day Saturday. We have set up a website and will be using software from oooby to manage subscriptions, collections, labels etc. You can Book a Box now to reserve a spot - launching end July. If you'd be interested in doing something similar in your local area let us know and maybe we can help.Like
- New approachesWe recently hosted the final of the Innovation Competition at CAFRE. We had 8 students pitching their sustainable ideas to a panel of judges. We've been working with them over the last while to bring their ideas to life and they were just awesome! The winner was Sarah Podhorova with her system for hydroponically growing nutritionally balanced fodder for horses. Second place were Emma and Charlotte from EquiOvis with their sheep's wool hoof polish, joint third were Samuel McIvor for his poultry AD plant and Ella and Fina from Equidrink for their simple system to monitor water consumption. Every finalist put forward a viable business idea and we hope to see them launching soon.Like
- Animal HealthThere was a great webinar recently about research on feeding willow to lambs. https://youtu.be/WdrTDKMRPLc?si=BXaxUERhc_xs4GEV This was the second in their series. The first is most likely on their YouTube channel too. Worth a watch 👍Like