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Episode 8: Introduction to Pasured Pigs with Helen Wade
Kate talks to Helen Wade from East Leach Downs Farm who has 45 organic sows with all progeny spending their entire lives outdoors, able to dig, root and graze herbal leys.They talk about Helen's journey into farming, what she has learnt along the way and how she is encouraging members of the public to visit the farm by installing a visitor hut.
FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds.
Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development.
The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep.
At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings - one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator.
Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers.
Our Website - www.farm-ed.co.uk
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Episode 7: Introduction to Pastured Poultry with Amy Chapple
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Kate talks to Amy Chapple about Redwoods Farm in Devon, where she has laying hens that roost in converted livestock trailers and her parents have broilers that live in 'chicken tractors' or polytunnels. They all get moved around the farm, following the cattle and sheep, scratching up the dung and keeping their active minds busy. Their chickens are fed on a soya-free diet with most of the feed b...
Introduction to Writing about Farming with Rosamund Young
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Fiona talks to bestselling author, Rosamund Young, in advance of the Farm & Food Literature Festival at FarmED next month. Rosamund talks about her life at Kite’s Nest Farm, on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment, where she has been an organic farmer for over forty years. Peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most familiar animals. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food E...
Introduction to the OOOOBY Food Hub with Pete Russell
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Danielle talks to Pete Russell, Founder of Ooooby, an online platform for small farms and local food producers to sell and deliver directly to homes. Ooooby’s mission is to put ‘small-scale’ back at the heart of our food system. More than 80 UK farms and food hubs are now using Ooooby every week to deliver local food to over 10,000 local households. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food...
Introduction to Soil Science with Jed Soleiman
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Danielle talks to soil scientist, Jed Soleiman, who is currently working at FarmED as part of the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping (CHCx3) Project. Jed is passionate about regenerative agriculture and rewilding, particularly in understanding the responses of soils to these, and other land uses that could help build the physical basis to bring about nature recovery. Focusing mainly on the...
Episode 3: Introduction to Pastured Pigs and Butchery with Flavian Obiero
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Kate talks to Flavian Obiero, a Hampshire County Farms tenant at Tynefield Farm in Titchfield. He manages 61 acres of permanent pasture & woodland with his partner Nikki and son, Noah. They have Tamworth pigs, ex-dairy goats and a mixed-breed sheep flock. All the animals are destined for meat. They currently sell through their catering business and a few markets. Future plans include selling mo...
Episode 2: Introduction to Beekeeping at FarmED with Tony Yarrow
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Fiona talks to FarmED’s beekeeper, Tony Yarrow, in advance of his two day course at FarmED - Honey Bees & their World (18th April). Tony began keeping bees in Wales in 1975. He has worked as a bee expert with two beehive manufacturing companies and has known and worked with some of the UK’s largest commercial beekeepers. Tony keeps 15-20 colonies in four sites in North Oxfordshire, including he...
Introduction to Farming Cluster Groups with Tim Field
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Kate talks to Tim Field, sustainable food, farming and land management consultant and Facilitator of the North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster, a group of local farmers and landowners interested in landscape-scale regeneration of the farmed environment and local food networks in the North East Cotswolds. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswol...
Oxford Real Farming Conference Podcast Special
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In a special episode of the FarmED Podcast, recorded at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, earlier this month, Ian interviews Patrick Holden, and Patrick interviews Ian, looking back over nearly fifty years of organic, regenerative and epigenetic farming! Patrick is the founder & CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, whose mission is to work internationally to accelerate the transition towards mo...
Episode 10: Introduction to Micro-Dairies
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Hallam Duckworth talks to Kate about setting up the cow-calf Dairyy at Honeydale. They discuss the challenges and the highs and lows - from getting weaning times right to retaining customers, developing a business plan and fulfilling his dream of making ice cream and selling it to customers at festivals. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cots...
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL : Jim & Wendy
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Jim Pearse reminisces about farming Honeydale from the 1950s until 2013, when he and his wife Wendy retired and passed the baton to Ian and Celene Wilkinson. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for ...
Introduction to Herbal Leys
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Ian talks to Cotswold Seeds Technical Manager, Sam Lane, about what’s in a herbal ley and how they can be tailored for different soils and uses. They discuss the benefits they bring above and below ground, improving soil fertility and encouraging earthworms, while reducing parasitic worms in livestock. Sam also talks about the new, more flexible, herbal ley options with SFI. FarmED is the new C...
Introduction to Rural Mental Health
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In advance of FarmED’s unique one-day, CPD-accredited Rural Mental Health Course in February, Kate talks to Alex Philmore from the Farming Community Network (FCN) about this issue, why 92% of farmers under 40 believe poor mental health is the biggest hidden problem they face and what you can do to notice the signs and make a difference. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education ba...
Introduction to Starting a Career in Agroecology. Founder Ian Wilkinson talks to intern Abi Gwynn
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Ian talks to our intern Abi about her degree in zoology and masters in tropical ecology and conservation and how it’s brought her to regenerative farming. Abi talks about starting a career in regenerative agriculture and agroecology, overcoming barriers and imposter syndrome and why she loves working in the Kitchen Garden. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeyda...
Introduction to Natural Tree Hives
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Tanya talks to Fiona about taking honey bees back to their ancestral home in the trees. At FarmED free-living bees occupy hollow cavities made in old trees by wood sculptor Rhys Davies. She talks about the hive mind, encompassing intelligence of bees, mating patterns, communication channels and the differences between wild and managed colonies. She also explains how honey can help cure skin pro...
Introduction to Composting. FarmED Storyteller Fiona Mountain talks to Worm Farmer Danielle Semple
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Introduction to Composting. FarmED Storyteller Fiona Mountain talks to Worm Farmer Danielle Semple
Introduction to Farm to Fork Food FarmED
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Introduction to Farm to Fork Food FarmED
Farmer Tim May talks to FarmED Agricultural Lead, Kate Henderson
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Farmer Tim May talks to FarmED Agricultural Lead, Kate Henderson
FarmED Founder and Farmer, Ian Wilkinson, talks to FarmED Storyteller, Fiona Mountain
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FarmED Founder and Farmer, Ian Wilkinson, talks to FarmED Storyteller, Fiona Mountain
FarmED’s Agricultural Lead, Kate Henderson chats to Public Engagement Coordinator, Danielle Semple
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FarmED’s Agricultural Lead, Kate Henderson chats to Public Engagement Coordinator, Danielle Semple
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO SAINFOIN
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SHORT INTRODUCTION TO SAINFOIN
GREAT Case study: Pasture for Life-style. Sandy Hill Farm, Gloucestershire
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GREAT Case study: Pasture for Life-style. Sandy Hill Farm, Gloucestershire
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO MULTISPECIES BIRD SEED MIXTURE
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SHORT INTRODUCTION TO MULTISPECIES BIRD SEED MIXTURE
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO MILLING WHEAT CONTROL PLOT:
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SHORT INTRODUCTION TO MILLING WHEAT CONTROL PLOT:
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO HERITAGE WHEAT
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SHORT INTRODUCTION TO HERITAGE WHEAT
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO PERENNIAL WHEATGRASS
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SHORT INTRODUCTION TO PERENNIAL WHEATGRASS
Farm to Fork
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Farm to Fork
Think Through Nutrition: Exploring Farming, Food, Nutrition and Brain Health
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Think Through Nutrition: Exploring Farming, Food, Nutrition and Brain Health
ArtWeeks
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ArtWeeks
Sustainable Sourcing of Food - Strategies at Home and in the Hospitality Sector -FarmED Podcast EP20
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Sustainable Sourcing of Food - Strategies at Home and in the Hospitality Sector -FarmED Podcast EP20

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @ETsBees
    @ETsBees 5 днів тому

    How much honey per acre of sainfoin?

  • @tk210west
    @tk210west 18 днів тому

    Beautiful.

  • @escapetoruralwales
    @escapetoruralwales 2 місяці тому

    Hello, great video. Where can I get the heritage wheat seed mix from? I would like to grow my own wheat. I am in North Wales. Also, how many loaves of bread can I get from a square metre on it roughly and how much do I need to sow roughly? Thank you

  • @fabricadebezerros
    @fabricadebezerros 3 місяці тому

    Congratulation for your job!

  • @markburge5260
    @markburge5260 3 місяці тому

    I think a disc type drill would have cut through the trash, those times are going to block up every time.

  • @PepinieraDraghiceni
    @PepinieraDraghiceni 3 місяці тому

    Bravo! 👍👍👍

  • @tomcopeland6424
    @tomcopeland6424 3 місяці тому

    Good video until you started talking about the climate change hoax. The climate is always changing.

  • @AgroecologyMap
    @AgroecologyMap 3 місяці тому

    Great! 🌱💚

  • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
    @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 5 місяців тому

    The original anti-plough activist used a modified (weighed down, well-oiled) disk harrow. Wonder if weighing down the roller-crimper even further would help with the kill rate. On a garden scale, I'd jump or dance on it.

  • @DanBeech-ht7sw
    @DanBeech-ht7sw 5 місяців тому

    Is it getting to be as tall as you expected? apart from the seeds, is any other part of the plant useful as fodder, say? And how much will it have to be fed, do you think?

  • @Samsaraaam17
    @Samsaraaam17 5 місяців тому

    UK made 1982 Perkin mf 240 135 mf ❤🎉❤🎉❤ Never made by again England model Brand🎉❤

  • @matthewakian2
    @matthewakian2 6 місяців тому

    This guy's great. I saw him on Countryfile.

  • @ccclc6159
    @ccclc6159 6 місяців тому

    a sickle mower would get the job done, then use a no till disk drill, hoe drills plug too easily.

  • @phil4405
    @phil4405 6 місяців тому

    How did UA-cam know I have an interest in soil!? Ps: lighting?

  • @skylerd4797
    @skylerd4797 7 місяців тому

    Growing a large amount of different heritage varieties in the same field is an odd choice if you are using a harvester and it's not animal feed. The moisture content and ripeness will have a larger variation and make it difficult to harvest effectively. It's hard enough with a single variety if the field doesn't turn at the same time.

  • @faisalalbarrak
    @faisalalbarrak 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing ❤

  • @gsmscrazycanuck9814
    @gsmscrazycanuck9814 9 місяців тому

    The video is missing some critical points. I grew a side by side plot comparison between a wheat from the 1800s and a modern wheat with no inputs. The 1800s wheat out yielded the new wheat by 300%.

    • @SebNutter
      @SebNutter 8 місяців тому

      How?

    • @gsmscrazycanuck9814
      @gsmscrazycanuck9814 7 місяців тому

      @@SebNutter because the new varieties are designed to be used with inputs. there are a lot of varieties of grain that were better than now. Flax is one of them.

    • @JesusisLord78
      @JesusisLord78 Місяць тому

      Do you perhaps sell the 1800s seed am really interested to buy

    • @gsmscrazycanuck9814
      @gsmscrazycanuck9814 Місяць тому

      @@JesusisLord78 I don't really have enough to sell. I'm still trying to figure out how to grow it here in Missouri.

  • @joseamilcarsalgadolainez3586
    @joseamilcarsalgadolainez3586 9 місяців тому

    Excellent.

  • @mwmingram
    @mwmingram 9 місяців тому

    Is it not possible to plough in the herbal leys like a green manure as opposed to relying on livestock to graze it?

  • @mwmingram
    @mwmingram 9 місяців тому

    Very interesting. A deep dive.

  • @fionnaitsradag5152
    @fionnaitsradag5152 9 місяців тому

    Beautiful!

  • @naturestimeline
    @naturestimeline 9 місяців тому

    Another brilliant interview and further bright young minds courtesy of Exeter University.

  • @naturestimeline
    @naturestimeline 9 місяців тому

    Watching this on Boxing Day so I am playing catch up. I love the variety of topics on discussion here within these podcasts. Happy Christmas to all at FarmEd and best wishes, Tony

  • @robertreznik9330
    @robertreznik9330 9 місяців тому

    The heritage wheat did not produce that much 100 years ago as yours did now. 20 bu/ac was a good yield then compared to 100+

  • @davidjackson6510
    @davidjackson6510 10 місяців тому

    stumbled upon your site a few days ago and love it, when I was looking at going into farming in 70's, farming was farming, and forestry was forestry. I didn't continue my dream of a move to farming due to "challenging" work experience on intensive arable unit, but have continued to follow farming. I love the current blend of stewardship and eco projects as part of a balanced farm unit. would love to win the lottery and be able to take this approach on my own unit.

  • @naturestimeline
    @naturestimeline 10 місяців тому

    We need a Farm Ed in Berkshire but not only that, Farm Education Centres in every county in the UK.

  • @Thao_Mirror
    @Thao_Mirror 11 місяців тому

    ❤ I do the same in Vietnam and hope everything will be alright!

  • @aljemi8097
    @aljemi8097 11 місяців тому

    Buenos días , soy agricultor de leñosos y creo que la vida la da la alimentación idónea de la tierra y así las plantas leñosas tienen más fortaleza y nutrirse bien La tierra es fuente de vida

  • @berniemeyer1643
    @berniemeyer1643 Рік тому

    Green house gas? Really?? You want to further that agenda? Could you have been lied to?

  • @icryostorm3727
    @icryostorm3727 Рік тому

    Go team SandyHill.

  • @msRaisin114
    @msRaisin114 Рік тому

    if you count kilocalories from petroleum needed to produce food via industrial methods, it works out that it takes more energy to produce the food than the food contains. so it's a net loss of energy. I'm not sure that any kind of farming can produce food for 8 + billion people without destroying the environment, but i am pretty sure that the way we're going now is NOT working. Best solution would be to voluntarily reduce family size, and voluntarily produce as much food, fiber and energy / power as possible in your own community. my 2 cents.

    • @SkyDavis100
      @SkyDavis100 9 місяців тому

      Nah. With regenerative agriculture you can get rid of all the pesticides and fertilizers and produce more bushels the acre and far more calories because the livestock numbers (for cover crop management), will quadruple.

    • @TheSunnyTrails
      @TheSunnyTrails 8 місяців тому

      Also if all families had a little garden to grow veges and a few dedicated to growing the bread for local areas there would never be food shortages or problems, there was a study done where a bunch of families got chickens from a government and egg sales dropped profits in the hundreds of thousands

    • @TJ-bk9vf
      @TJ-bk9vf 8 місяців тому

      Source?

  • @WhatWeDoChannel
    @WhatWeDoChannel Рік тому

    Here’s a thought, Ukraine’s 10% of global wheat production is unavailable right now and a number of the world’s poorest nations are facing the possibility of starvation! Can you imagine what would happen if 50% of the worlds wheat suddenly disappeared off the market? I guess we could clear more land to grow new acres of the old unproductive wheat, but where does that leave the environment? I say bigger yields to feed a hungry world and use up less land! Klaus

  • @robinberry5421
    @robinberry5421 Рік тому

    'Promosm' 👏

  • @mariakalenskaya8365
    @mariakalenskaya8365 Рік тому

    Great man ❤

  • @EmmaHyde-Nero
    @EmmaHyde-Nero Рік тому

    Love it!

  • @alosolutionsfoodsafetyandn4457

    Really interesting to see this. I enjoyed hearing everyone's views and seeing how passionate they all are to make changes and to make people around them aware of what needs to be done. Very inspiring.

  • @lambsquartersfarm
    @lambsquartersfarm Рік тому

    Very informative podcast. I hope to be an author for them one day.

  • @boofriggityhoo
    @boofriggityhoo Рік тому

    The best video I've found on the topic so far, especially to understand the acreage and output differences. I would love to be able to compare product differences (e.g. comparing loaves of bread or other baked goods) but in general, I think we have lost so much by ignoring heritage wheat varieties. There used to be hundreds that were better suited for different climates. I also wanted to note that height difference. So many now would consider that a waste, but back in the day, that extra straw was extremely useful to have. Modern wheat varieties are less than half as tall in many cases which on a small scale (especially homestead) setting is actually less useful overall.

  • @FarmingRevolution
    @FarmingRevolution 2 роки тому

    Absolutely fantastic idea. Love talking regenerative business models.

  • @brianscott2409
    @brianscott2409 2 роки тому

    Prⓞм𝕠𝕤𝐌 🙃

  • @ruralink
    @ruralink 2 роки тому

    This is a fantastic initiative which is really inspiring to young people. Go FarmED!

  • @KevinMilnerFarmingPhotography
    @KevinMilnerFarmingPhotography 2 роки тому

    What the song call you use, very well know

  • @KevinMilnerFarmingPhotography
    @KevinMilnerFarmingPhotography 2 роки тому

    Nice videos

  • @rockrubison1315
    @rockrubison1315 2 роки тому

    P𝐫O𝕞O𝓢m 🌹

  • @FuturepumpLtd
    @FuturepumpLtd 2 роки тому

    This is super interesting! Is this technique for reducing nitrogen requirements unique to wheat and clover, or could it be replicated with any other crop?

  • @tidtidy4159
    @tidtidy4159 2 роки тому

    This looks suspiciously like organic farming to me, maybe time to sign up with S.A .At least we know it works.

  • @folkeholmberg3519
    @folkeholmberg3519 2 роки тому

    Allways interesting to listen to George Monbiot ❗

  • @tidtidy4159
    @tidtidy4159 2 роки тому

    I read of this technique in humas and the farmer by Friend Sykes,published in the 1950s,he called it Sheet composting. I am currently trialling it with winter wheat..My father sead, deep ploughing is a mistake, He described it as burying your fertility, all the action is in the top 6 inches. The more I study soil science, the more this makes sense. And no roundup.

  • @AshishGardening
    @AshishGardening 3 роки тому

    Very nice gardan

  • @gardeningwithhm
    @gardeningwithhm 3 роки тому

    Beautifull garden