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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?
How are you balancing animal performance with landscape function? Share your views.
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.
- Regenerative GrazingLooking like another tricky year for getting any thrive into our lambs off grass only. How are other people faring with stock fattening off pasture this year?Like
- Regenerative GrazingWe used to cut this meadow for hay but haven't in the last 4 years, it's been grazed a little, late in the season. It always had lots of irises, meadowsweet, vetches, orchids and birds foot trefoil but since we stopped mowing we have seen increasing amounts of scabious. Maybe it was there and we just didn't notice? Seeing quite a few dead nettles popping up too and giant willowherb. Should I be worried about the willowherb?Like
- SoilOur flax is crap this year. We were late going in, blame the rain. We probably hadn't prepared the field as well as we should but I think there is more to it. The fibre that is there is really fine. Below are the soil test results from 2021 and the fields are marked where the flax did really in 21, 22 and 23. Field 15a is doing badly. Farmers always said that flax liked 'poor' soil, graph below shows what flax takes out compared to other crops. Thoughts?Like