02 July 20132 July, 10.00pm - 5.00pm Hamilton House, Bristol The Soil Association and Biodynamic Land Trust are working with the Community Land Advisory Service to host an event on ‘New futures in farmland ownership’. The day will look at farmland ownership, how we can make it stack up economically and how communities in France have taken real ownership of their land and food supply through the work of Terre de liens. This event is part of an EU wide project on access to land for sustainable farming and will include participants from across Europe with stories to share about sustainable management of agricultural ... |
06 July 2013Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud. GL6 7QW Musicians, Poets, Artists, Inspiring Eco Speakers, Movers and Shakers and YOU! Seed Festival inspires a more intimate and personal connection with our living world and our place within it. Create • D... |
17 July 2013 Professor Martin S Wolfe, Wakelyns, Metfield Lane,Fressingfield,Suffolk, IP21 5SD Farm Background: 23 ha of arable and agroforestry. The farm is entirely experimental, the main feature being a range of different agroforestry alley-cropping systems. There is one organic rotation in... |
18 July 2013Rupert Dunn,Caerhys Farm,Berea,St Davids,Pembrokeshire,SA62 6DX Farm Background: Caerhys Farm is on the picturesque coastline of North Pembrokeshire. We produce pasture fed Welsh Black beef and pork. We also grow vegetables for our CSA scheme, Caerhys Organic Com... |
24 July 2013Mike Fisher Northdown Orchard South LItchfield, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 3BP Farm Background:5ha of horticulture. Box scheme since 1994, also supply field and protected crops to Riverford. Field crops and 1000m2 protected cropping, intercropping with green manures and green m... |
29 July 2013Walled Garden Shed, Hardwick Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, RG8 7RD. Reading Irrigation and water management for growers. Everything (well almost) you need to know about irrigation from tunnels up to field scale. The weather is a fickle thing and can leave you high and dry so... |
30 July 2013James Robinson,WH & KM Robinson,Strickley,Old Hutton, Kendal,LA8 0LU Strickley is an organic dairy farm comprising of 240 acres which has been in the Robinson family for 5 generations. We have a pedigree herd of 100 Dairy Shorthorns plus followers. We have always take... |
30 July 2013Walled Garden Shed, Hardwick Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, RG8 7RD. Reading Extending the season for organic vegetable producers. This seminar is for organic producers with box schemes or other direct sales outlets; it would also be of considerable use to other growers aimin... |
08 August 2013David and Jinsy Robinson, Penyrallt Home Farm, Pentrecwrt, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, SA44 5DW Farm Background: Penyrallt Home Farm is a traditional family-run mixed farm of approximately 140 acres. We have a dairy herd of British Friesians & Ayrshires, Hereford Cross Friesian Beef animals and... |
14 August 2013Michael Rogers, Underwood, Higher Farm, Beeson, Kingsbridge,TQ72HW Farm Background: The farm comprises of 160 acres, all in Higher Level Stewardship. We farm a beef suckler herd and some winter field vegetables. We are into the second year of developing a 1.5 acre f... |