I recently attended a 2-day workshop run by the Sustainable Food Trust titled ‘The Role of Livestock in Future Farming Systems: From Theory to Practice’ featuring Joel Salatin and a diverse range of expert panelists. It was an extraordinary and diverse gathering of some of the UK’s leading food
Last month I attended the world famous Slow Food Terra Madre 2016 – Salone Del Gusto held in Turin, Italy as a delegate (and a reporter) from the 22-26th of September. It was my second Slow Food experience in Italy having attended the SFYN (Slow Food Youth Network) We Feed the
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
Over the last few months I’ve been out and about with my camera profiling some of the small independent farmers and foodmakers who supply Farmdrop – a local food business on a mission to fix the food chain. In the first of the series I meet chicken farmers Nick Ball
More than a 1000 farmers took to the streets in the Farming to London March – delivering a letter to 10 Downing Street urging the Government to do more to safeguard an industry that is struggling to survive. We caught the train up from East Sussex to photograph the protest (see
We went along to the Brussels Protest to join some of the 5000 european farmers that have gathered outside the European Commission to demonstrate against record low prices for milk and meat. The majority of farmers I met were campaigning for some form of market intervention to restrict supply and
Inspired by my visit to Monkton Wlyd Court (an education centre for sustainable living) last summer (whilst on my Indie Farmer Road Trip) I’ve put together a short guide to hay making by hand featuring Simon Fairlie, small-scale farmer and co-editor of The Land Magazine.. 1. Sharpening your Scythe
Growing up on a farm you get introduced to lambing at an early age (yes that’s me holding a lamb with the rather anxious looking ewe in the background) but for the vast majority of people it’s not something they come across or really understand fully. The last