Agricology Open Day

Photo story: Agricology Open Day at Daylesford Farm

Nigel Akehurst·August 29, 2016

Many different organisations across boundaries and labels have grouped together to form Agricology, a curated knowledge base for ecological farming ideas..

Farmerama Abby and I went along to the Agricology Open Day held at Daylesford Farm a couple of months ago to learn more about it and see some of their sustainable farming practices first hand…

You can listen to the feature we recorded in episode 13 of Farmerama embedded at the bottom of this post or available to download via iTunes.

Welcome address by Dalyesford Farm Manager Richard Smith and Susanne Padel speaking on behalf of Agricology.

Richard talking about their pedigree herd of rare breed Gloucester Cows

The herd of dairy Gloucester Cows which they milk to produce Gloucester cheese to sell through the Daylesford shop

The herd of pedigree Friesian cows

The mobile speaker system bringing up the rear

Head grower Jez explaining more about their approach

Abby listening to Jed’s engaging presentation

Strawberry picking session..

Stephen Briggs — Farmer Stephen Briggs explaining more about Agroforestry, a new approach to increasing farm production

Produce World Director Andrew Burgess talking about- LEAF (Linking the Environment and Farming) and field-scale horticulture

Tractor and trailer ride through the Daylesford Estate

Driving through the Estate

The herd of Aberdeen Angus cows and calves

An impressive crop of sainfoin

Bees collecting pollen from the sainfoin

Not exactly sure what was going on here but the cows were very rather amused..

Driving up a wet road to the chicken enterprise

One of the modern mobile chicken tractors for their small flocks of organic free range egg laying hens

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