Groundswell 2023 - watch again

Links to recordings of sessions we hosted or participated in at Groundswell.

You can find recordings of most of the other Groundswell sessions on their YouTube playlist.

Building Greater Consensus to Support Regenerative, Nature Positive Change Across the Farming

How do we Build Greater Consensus & Secure Political Leadership to Support the Groundswell of Regenerative, Nature Positive Change Across the Farming Sector?

Speakers: Helen Browning OBE, Rt. Hon. Lord Benyon, Katie-Jo Luxton, Daniel Zeichner MP & Stuart Roberts

Intercropping – Practical Lessons

An opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners about the range of crops that can be teamed up together, what works and what doesn’t. It covers the practicalities of taking the crops the whole way through from drilling to harvest to marketing.

Speakers: Ben Adams, Andy Cato, Jerry Alford & David White

Bringing Your Land To Life: New Entrants, Community & Diversification

This session explores new approaches for farmers and landowners looking to diversify, focusing on agroecological solutions to build community, bringing new entrants and their businesses onto the land and multiplying beneficial connections.

Speakers: Ben Raskin & Oli Rodker

Rediscovering the Forgotten Value of Farm Woodland & Farm-Scale Forestry Opportunities

Does your farm woodland feel overlooked or perhaps an underutilised resource? This session looks into opportunities for UK farm woodland owners.

Speakers: Clive Thomas, Tom Ottaway, Oli Rodker & Tim Pagella

Sharing the Lessons Learned in Establishing Agroforestry Systems on Farms

This session hears from two farmers about their experiences of establishing agroforestry systems, focusing on the key essential to successfully establishing trees in a UK farm setting.

Speakers: Jon Haines, David Brewer & Alex Fraser

How Public Procurement Can Revolutionise Public Health & Farming

This panel explores what needs to be done at every step of the food chain to get local and regeneratively produced food into public procurement streams.

Speakers: Thomasina Miers, & Naomi Duncan, Anthony Mangnall MP, Rob Percival, Anne Simonnet

Farmer-Led Solutions to Underperforming Fields & Marginal Land

Through the Innovative Farmers programme, farmers and researchers are teaming up to trial a range of techniques from mob grazing in dairy farms, creating wildflower margins to tackle pests and using satellite data to inform effective pasture management.

Speakers: Kate Still, Dan Gammon, Frances Standen & David Clarke

Bale Grazing – Lessons From Our Field Lab

Six Pasture for Life member farms have come together in an Innovative Farmers Field Lab to undertake a four year study to explore the impacts of bale grazing on soil and forage.

Speakers: Nikki Yoxall, Stuart Mitchell, Silas Hedley- Lawrence, Ian Horsley & Claire Beaumont

Find out more

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