GROUNDSWELL ON-STAND SESSIONS & DEMOS 2024
WEDNESDAY 26th JUNE
Early Morning Bird Walk
06:00 – Meet at the Taxi Rank
Whether you are a novice or a seasoned expert, join us for an early morning walk to enjoy the sound of birdsong and look for birds and other wildlife around the site.
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Meditation & Breathwork Class
07:15 – Grass Tent
Join for a 30-minute guided Meditation and Breathwork class. Violet will be guiding you through a Mindful Meditation around grounding down to the Earth and moving into a Breathwork class of awakening the body through our breath. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one but some will be available to borrow.
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Yoga Class
08:00 – Grass Tent
Join for a 45-minute Yoga class all around grounding. All levels are welcome, beginners too. Violet is an experienced Yoga teacher who will be inviting you onto the mat to ground down and surrender deep into their bodies, allowing you to step off the mat and into your day. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one but some will be available to borrow, Lycra not mandatory!
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Growing British Jeans – Talk & Indigo Dye Demo
10:00 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
Northern England Fibreshed founders launch their Organic British Indigo with a pigment extraction and dyeing demo, and talk about the collaboration that produced the U.K.’s first prototype pair of indigo linen jeans. (Justine Aldersey-Williams)
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Herbal Leys for a Dairy System: a Q&A with Andrew Brewer & Discussion
10:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
Establishing diverse swards can improve the resilience of grazing platforms. However, the un-quantified effect of increased sward diversity on milk yield and quality is a potential financial risk for dairy farmers. Andrew Brewer is a pasture-based dairy farmer with 500 Jersey cross cows in Cornwall. Andrew was keen to explore whether growing herbal leys instead of the more conventional ryegrass/clover mixed sward, would affect milk yield and constituents. He plans to split his herd, and monitor the difference between milk produced by cows grazing a rye grass sward, and cows grazing a herbal ley / diverse sward. We’ll be talking to Andrew about this Farm Net Zero – Innovative Farmers trial, his experiences of growing diverse swards, and finding out why he believes strongly that soil and animal health are central to maintaining the productivity of his farming system.
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Solutions for Feeding Your Soils
11:00 – Soil Medic Tent
We have a range of farmers/experts covering different composting methods, bokashi, vermicasting, microbes, Johnson-su, grazing methods – join Tom Fairfax, The Land Gardeners, Jeff Allen, Kate Gateacre, Tim Williams & Ian Robertson
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Kings Crops Plot Tour
11:00 – Kings Stand DF D40
Kings Crops, the Groundswell Event Cover Crop Partner, welcome you to a walk and talk tour of their 30 diverse crop plots in the Demo Field. Learn from our team of advisors on how the innovative range of options on display can deliver an integrated approach for your soil health, integrated pest management, forage, Sustainable Farming Incentive, stewardship and private sector funding needs whilst improving water quality and the wider farmed environment. Autumn and spring sown catch, cover, companion, living mulch, grazing, winter bird food, pollinator and hedgerow options are all on display helping to bring your regenerative farming opportunities to life.
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Intercrop Separation & Cleaning Demo
11:15 – Behind Discussion Tent
A working demonstration of how the grain separation and cleaning system, owned by Weston Park Farms, overcomes the biggest barrier to growing intercrops – post-harvest separation.
The VibroMAX Intercropper separates and cleans bi-crops in a single pass, meeting common contract specifications, allowing farmers to take full advantage of the benefits of intercropping: higher yields, reduced synthetic inputs, increased biodiversity and improved soil health.
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Hand-Held Scanners for Soil Carbon Measurements
11:30 – Affinity Water Stand
In this demonstration, Jessica Underwood will present two hand-held devices designed to measure soil carbon and other properties directly in the field. With current soil sampling methods having such high time and monetary costs, these devices have real potential for revolutionising soil carbon measuring, as they are cheap, quick and easy to use. Her PhD research is focused on how well these devices work, and looking at how they could be used by farmers. She will explain how they work while giving a demonstration, and be available for questions after. Join her to see these devices in action and discuss their implications for the future of soil management.
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South East England Fibreshed Wool Update
12:00 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
Update on wool-related projects in the South East Fibreshed. (Deborah Barker)
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Soil Surgery
13:00 – Soil Medic Tent
Drop-in Session for solutions to feeding soils on farm with Tom Fairfax, The Land Gardeners, Jeff Allen, Kate Gateacre, Tim Williams, Daniel Iddon, Andrew Sincock, Daniel Tyrkiel, Thomas Daniel & Michael Kennard
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Farm Bird Surveys – Tracking Effects of Conservation Measures
13:00 – BTO Stand PF G15
Lots of farms and estates are actively managing to enhance biodiversity, but lack evidence that what they are doing is working and the formal monitoring activity that would deliver it. However, evidence is important to show what is working and to feed back so that improvements can be made if needed. The BTO can provide a range of professional bird monitoring packages, comparing on-farm changes to those shown by regional data. The plan is that results from multiple farms ultimately come together to give us a novel, national data set. I will introduce the options and tell you how you can get involved.
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Rainwater Harvesting – Collecting the Natural Resource
13:00 – JRH Stand PF C9
Find out and discuss what rainwater harvesting is, how it works and what systems can be installed. Agriculture harvests many things why not rainwater?
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Agroecology & Enterprise Stacking
13:00 – Tom the Apple Man Stand PF G25
We have a stand at the show and would like to talk about our 6.5 acre organic agroforestry fruit tree nursery that involves 4 other businesses working on the same site as part of a planned crop rotation. We have set up a CIC to grow food with the local school
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Fibre to Fashion Meet Up
13:00 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
An informal meetup session for anyone working in, or interested in working in, the realm of fibres and/or fashion, hosted by South East and South West England Fibresheds. (Emma Hague & Deborah Baker)
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Forage Products for Regenerative Agriculture
13:30 – Barenbrug Stand D45
Come along and see some of the Barenbrug products available, and discuss their fit and use on farm. From intensive cutting options through to biodiverse mixtures for challenging conditions, come and ask our forage agronomists how our products can help you achieve your goals on farm. With Janet Montgomery and Roger Bacon.
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PES Technologies Soil Health Measurement Tool Live Demonstration!
13:30 – PES Technologies Stand DF E34
PES Technologies has developed a game-changing tool which provides on-the-spot, near-instant data that can be used for a comprehensive soil health assessment – while out in the field. A variety of biological, chemical and physical soil health indicators are provided, including microbial biomass, respiration and soil organic matter content; the tool does this by analysing the activities of a soil’s microbial community. The PES sensor system is hand-held, battery-powered, and controlled with a smartphone app. Soil samples are analysed directly in-field, and no sample preparation is required beyond putting soil into our tool. The entire process, from start to finish, only takes minutes, meaning you can see what’s going on below your feet, while you observe your field. All results are GPS-logged and time-stamped, making it suitable for baselining and tracking changes over time as well as SFI and other Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) schemes. Come to the PES Technologies stall to see us analyse soil in real time!
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Eco Green Composting / King Feeders Demo
13:30 – Eco-Green Composting Stand DF A35
Eco Green Composting / King Feeders will be exhibiting their bio chopper / blender and windrow turner. King Feeders UK based in Cheshire, specialist in the supply of green waste composting machinery and has wide ranging experience in this area of equipment, with a proven track record of supply to a range of different sectors. The Eco Green composter offers simple, reliable and economic means of recycling. They grind, mulch and mix bio-degradable products. Material is significantly reduced and can be blended with other products. These machines operate at a very low noise and nuisance level
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Listening for Worms to Assess Soil Health
13:30 – Baker Consultants Stand PF G24
Soils are noisy – burrowing earthworms, marching ants and soil insect songs can be heard using sensitive soil microphones. In this session, we’ll share our early discoveries the research into the soundscape under our feet. Our DEFRA-funded research has enabled us to work with researchers and farmers across the UK to explore if a noisy soil is a healthy soil. This session will provide an insight into the different sound-making animals which live in the soil, where they are, what they do and why they are important.
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Native Fibre Grading & Shearing Demo
14:30 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
Highly popular at Groundswell 2022, this is a practical demo on how to blade shear and grade fleece to maximise it’s value, by Andy Wear and Jen Hunter from Fernhill Farm, the first UK wool producer to be certified regenerative.
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Kings Crops Plot Tour
15:00 – Kings Stand DF D40
Kings Crops, the Groundswell Event Cover Crop Partner, welcome you to a walk and talk tour of their 30 diverse crop plots in the Demo Field. Learn from our team of advisors on how the innovative range of options on display can deliver an integrated approach for your soil health, integrated pest management, forage, Sustainable Farming Incentive, stewardship and private sector funding needs whilst improving water quality and the wider farmed environment. Autumn and spring sown catch, cover, companion, living mulch, grazing, winter bird food, pollinator and hedgerow options are all on display helping to bring your regenerative farming opportunities to life.
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Organic farming – is it for me?
15:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
Are you curious about organic farming? Would you like to find out more about organic production, conversion and the market for organic? Join an informal Q&A session with Nick Padwick (Organic regenerative farmer) and Jerry Alford( senior farming advisor- Soil Association) to find out more about the practicalities of organic farming. With new farm funding available for the sector this session will outline market and supply chain insights and the opportunities and challenges involved in organic farm conversion.
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On-Farm Development of an Electric Market-Gardening Tractor
15:00 – Organic Tools Stand DF A36
Organic Tools presents the prototype of a new electric walk behind tractor called TRAKTRAK, with the aim to discuss opportunities and challenges of a smallscale, regenerative and postfossile agriculture. Bring your experiences and ideas to engage in the ongoing on-farm development process around the market garden agrocycle. Market gardening is a promising cultivation approach with regional food sovereignty and high profits per acre. However, the significant workload, leads to the tendency of burnout among young farmers. The existing technology drives economies of scale and pushes farmers to grow big. The fundamental question on the development journey was: How can TRAKTRAK transform diversified, regenerative agriculture in the same way that conventional tractors have revolutionized industrialized agriculture?
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Free Digital Tools for Sustainable Farming
15:00 – UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Stand DF B31
Come to the UKCEH stand to find out about how our free digital tools can support sustainable farming! Making decisions on how to improve environmental sustainability requires rapid integration of environmental knowledge and data, to know where and how to make changes. As an independent environmental research organisation, UKCEH works with a wide variety of mapped datasets from large-scale remote sensing and surveys, and has over 30 years’ experience in using these to predict farm-scale environmental impacts. We are working with farmers to create digital tools that translate these complex data into accessible information for farm-scale decision making. We’ll introduce our existing e-planner tool, and our pilot “farm environmental health check”, both of which you’ll have an opportunity to explore. With John Redhead.
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Accurately Measuring Soil Carbon
15:30 – Agricarbon Stand PF G13
Agricarbon provides businesses and landowners with high-integrity soil carbon measurement. Agricarbon’s robust services are grounded in scientific accuracy, making it a reliable partner for those seeking to make informed decisions in land management and/or carbon trading. This demo will showcase Agricarbon’s ‘CarbonForce’, their soil core extraction ATV.
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NIAB – The Science Behind Regen-Ag
15:30 – NIAB Stand DF F33
The science, technologies and strategies behind regenerative farming at NIAB showcasing how through sustainable intensification and precision agriculture we can still optimise productivity – producing more from less – while at the same time protecting and improving the condition of the land and surrounding environment. Explore the range of break crops, plus research work on legume crop improvement and, as part of the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping, take a look at some of the UK’s input-efficient crops that may feature on farm in the future in response to our need for a more resilient agricultural system.
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It’s All in the Mind. Why Adopting a Regenerative Mindset Might be the Only Way to Fast Track the Transition
16:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
In this session our panel will discuss their experiences of how adopting the right mindset was critical in unlocking regen success for their farms. Why is it important, and how do we encourage it and then use it to start to bring about benefits for both the farm business and for nature. (Clare Hill, David White & David Wolfe)
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The Power of Food – Gut, Broth, Bone
18:00 – Jolly Allotment Stand
Food activist and Natropathic Fire Chef Polly is the founder of the Jolly Allotment regenerative Wellness Hub and festival food truck The Jolly Trolly.
Polly learned the power of eating and growing chemical free food when it saved her life. Polly was told there was nothing in modern medicine that could cure her from a debilitating and life threatening autoimmune condition. She had to choose to die or find a way to live. So she turned to ancient ways of healing through living from the land.
Reconnecting to food, nature and the regenerative cycle of life saved her own life. Her key note talk empowers all those that hear it to not only take responsibility for their own health and happiness but also our planet. The talk covers the importance of bone broth, plants and the circle of life for regeneration of body tissue.Iit is an important message as we are heading to an auto immune pandemic and the way we eat and grow food has the power to make a lasting change for the health of our people and our plant.
She helps all those that listen understand the absolute power we have in how we choose to grow and eat the food that feeds us and the ground we live on. It is a truly incredible story that never fails to connect with all those that hear it creating so many resonating moments.
Polly is a Scholar of the blue zones, gut health and ancient human rituals. Her knowledge helps people reconnect to the land, community and themselves through the power of food. She is living proof that food is truly natures medicine.
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THURSDAY 27th JUNE
Early Morning Bird Walk
06:00 – Meet at the Taxi Rank
Whether you are a novice or a seasoned expert, join us for an early morning walk to enjoy the sound of birdsong and look for birds and other wildlife around the site.
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Morning Embodiment Class
07:45 – Grass Tent
This class specializes in authentic movement borrowing elements from Capoeira, Dance and Grounding methods. It is open to all levels and ages, no experience necessary and it’s a great opportunity to develop a technique combining conscious movement in connection to the earth. It’s good fun and ideal for those who want to move more consciously and release stress and unnecessary tension.
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Ancient & Veteran Trees on Farms
08:00 – Meet at the Taxi Rank
Join a practical walk-out session to view veteran trees at Groundswell; discover why they are special and look at practical solutions for management on your farm. You will learn how to care for these valuable trees and how to identify risks in both arable and grazed contexts, including tree disease such as ash dieback. The best practice principles discussed also apply to the management of younger trees, as ancients of the future. Trees support more sustainable and productive agricultural landscapes. Ancient and veteran trees are important for wildlife, as well as being significant historic and cultural landmarks.
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Mycelium-inspired Community Composting … Cultivating Collaboration for the Compost Revolution!
09:00 – Soil Medic Tent
Compost Tom / Thomas Daniell is the founder of Old Tree Brewery and Old Tree Soil. Social enterprises combining fermentation and composting to support regenerative food system transformation. He is the host of the Mycelium Composting Network – a growing movement and forum for local composting that has over 100 members building a grassroots co-learning and knowledge sharing network to make complete compost everywhere so it can be supplied locally anywhere!
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A Progress Update on Cotmarsh Tannery
09:30 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
An update on progress at Great Cotmarsh Farm to set up a new micro tannery for vegetable tanning cattle hides to produce high quality leather with provenance. (James Allen)
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Kings Crops Plot Tour
10:00 – Kings Stand DF D40
Kings Crops, the Groundswell Event Cover Crop Partner, welcome you to a walk and talk tour of their 30 diverse crop plots in the Demo Field. Learn from our team of advisors on how the innovative range of options on display can deliver an integrated approach for your soil health, integrated pest management, forage, Sustainable Farming Incentive, stewardship and private sector funding needs whilst improving water quality and the wider farmed environment. Autumn and spring sown catch, cover, companion, living mulch, grazing, winter bird food, pollinator and hedgerow options are all on display helping to bring your regenerative farming opportunities to life.
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Is Looking After our Soil the Key to Cleaning up Rivers?
10:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
Agricultural land management impacts the environment surrounding the farm as well as that further afield. Nitrogen applied to the soil in excess leaches into nearby waterways, driving algal blooms, or into the air, contributing to climate change. Once in the air, these pollutants also damage human health, causing lung damage and heart disease, and drive biodiversity loss when deposited on sensitive habitats. River catchments are exposed to a range of stressors, whether that be wastewater, chemical contamination, or agricultural pollution driven primarily by nutrient leaching. Soil management directly affects the water quality in nearby water systems, with nutrients accumulating throughout the catchment as the water drains through the soil. This panel will discuss what farmers can do to reduce their impact on the river catchment, the wider environment and human health, while benefiting from reduced input costs.
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Farm Bird Surveys – Tracking Effects of Conservation Measures
10:00 – BTO Stand PF G15
Lots of farms and estates are actively managing to enhance biodiversity, but lack evidence that what they are doing is working and the formal monitoring activity that would deliver it. However, evidence is important to show what is working and to feed back so that improvements can be made if needed. The BTO can provide a range of professional bird monitoring packages, comparing on-farm changes to those shown by regional data. The plan is that results from multiple farms ultimately come together to give us a novel, national data set. I will introduce the options and tell you how you can get involved.
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NIAB – The Science Behind Regen-Ag
10:30 – NIAB Stand DF F33
The science, technologies and strategies behind regenerative farming at NIAB showcasing how through sustainable intensification and precision agriculture we can still optimise productivity – producing more from less – while at the same time protecting and improving the condition of the land and surrounding environment. Explore the range of break crops, plus research work on legume crop improvement and, as part of the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping, take a look at some of the UK’s input-efficient crops that may feature on farm in the future in response to our need for a more resilient agricultural system.
~
Listening for Worms to Assess Soil Health
10:30 – Baker Consultants Stand PF G24
Soils are noisy – burrowing earthworms, marching ants and soil insect songs can be heard using sensitive soil microphones. In this session, we’ll share our early discoveries the research into the soundscape under our feet. Our DEFRA-funded research has enabled us to work with researchers and farmers across the UK to explore if a noisy soil is a healthy soil. This session will provide an insight into the different sound-making animals which live in the soil, where they are, what they do and why they are important.
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Hand-Held Scanners for Soil Carbon Measurements
10:30 – Affinity Water Stand
In this demonstration, Jessica Underwood will present two hand-held devices designed to measure soil carbon and other properties directly in the field. With current soil sampling methods having such high time and monetary costs, these devices have real potential for revolutionising soil carbon measuring, as they are cheap, quick and easy to use. Her PhD research is focused on how well these devices work, and looking at how they could be used by farmers. She will explain how they work while giving a demonstration, and be available for questions after. Join her to see these devices in action and discuss their implications for the future of soil management.
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Farming Fashion: Wool
11:00 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
Opportunity for farmers of native and rare breed sheep to get involved with the Future Fashion Landscape research project following the launch of the Farming Fashion: Wool guide at ORFC in January. (Emma Hague, Deborah Barker & Mila Burcikova)
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Farmer Perspectives: Sustainable Farming Incentive
11:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
Hear from a panel of organic farmers and find out how the new Sustainable Farming Incentive and Countryside Stewardship schemes can benefit your farm.
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Soil Surgery
12:00 – Soil Medic Tent
Drop-in Session for solutions to feeding soils on farm with Tom Fairfax, The Land Gardeners, Jeff Allen, Kate Gateacre, Tim Williams, Daniel Iddon, Andrew Sincock, Daniel Tyrkiel, Thomas Daniel & Michael Kennard
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Rainwater Harvesting – Collecting the Natural Resource
12:00 – JRH Stand PF C9
Find out and discuss what rainwater harvesting is, how it works and what systems can be installed. Agriculture harvests many things why not rainwater?
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Eco Green Composting / King Feeders Demo
12:00 – Eco-Green Composting Stand DF A35
Eco Green Composting / King Feeders will be exhibiting their bio chopper / blender and windrow turner. King Feeders UK based in Cheshire, specialist in the supply of green waste composting machinery and has wide ranging experience in this area of equipment, with a proven track record of supply to a range of different sectors. The Eco Green composter offers simple, reliable and economic means of recycling. They grind, mulch and mix bio-degradable products. Material is significantly reduced and can be blended with other products. These machines operate at a very low noise and nuisance level
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On-Farm Development of an Electric Market-Gardening Tractor
12:00 – Organic Tools Stand DF A36
Organic Tools presents the prototype of a new electric walk behind tractor called TRAKTRAK, with the aim to discuss opportunities and challenges of a smallscale, regenerative and postfossile agriculture. Bring your experiences and ideas to engage in the ongoing on-farm development process around the market garden agrocycle. Market gardening is a promising cultivation approach with regional food sovereignty and high profits per acre. However, the significant workload, leads to the tendency of burnout among young farmers. The existing technology drives economies of scale and pushes farmers to grow big. The fundamental question on the development journey was: How can TRAKTRAK transform diversified, regenerative agriculture in the same way that conventional tractors have revolutionized industrialized agriculture?
~
Forage Products for Regenerative Agriculture
12:30 – Barenbrug Stand D45
Come along and see some of the Barenbrug products available, and discuss their fit and use on farm. From intensive cutting options through to biodiverse mixtures for challenging conditions, come and ask our forage agronomists how our products can help you achieve your goals on farm. With Janet Montgomery and Roger Bacon.
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Accurately Measuring Soil Carbon
12:30 – Agricarbon Stand PF G13
Agricarbon provides businesses and landowners with high-integrity soil carbon measurement. Agricarbon’s robust services are grounded in scientific accuracy, making it a reliable partner for those seeking to make informed decisions in land management and/or carbon trading. This demo will showcase Agricarbon’s ‘CarbonForce’, their soil core extraction ATV.
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PES Technologies Soil Health Measurement Tool Live Demonstration!
12:30 – PES Technologies Stand DF E34
PES Technologies has developed a game-changing tool which provides on-the-spot, near-instant data that can be used for a comprehensive soil health assessment – while out in the field. A variety of biological, chemical and physical soil health indicators are provided, including microbial biomass, respiration and soil organic matter content; the tool does this by analysing the activities of a soil’s microbial community. The PES sensor system is hand-held, battery-powered, and controlled with a smartphone app. Soil samples are analysed directly in-field, and no sample preparation is required beyond putting soil into our tool. The entire process, from start to finish, only takes minutes, meaning you can see what’s going on below your feet, while you observe your field. All results are GPS-logged and time-stamped, making it suitable for baselining and tracking changes over time as well as SFI and other Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) schemes. Come to the PES Technologies stall to see us analyse soil in real time!
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Bast Fibre Network – Fun with Flax & Hemp
13:00 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
The UK Bast Fibre Network will demonstrate handcraft and small-scale fibre processing techniques. Experience the wonder of turning straw into gold. (Zoe Gilbertson)
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Holistic Farm Metrics: Bridging Industry Gaps with Soil Association Exchange & Global Farm Metric
13:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
Our panel will discuss how a closer partnership between these two organisations can help accelerate the adoption of baselining across the industry, delivering for farmers and the broader industry. They will discuss why the principles of ‘farmer first’ and holistic measurement are key, and what barriers are still in place. (Adele Jones, Fabia Bromovsky & Joseph Gridley)
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Leguminose
14:00 – Soil Association Stand PF F13
Want to know more about how legume-based intercropping improves soil hearth, increases biodiversity and maximises productivity while reducing input use and the carbon footprint of arable farming? Come along and meet farmers who’ve taken part in our ‘living lab’ on-farm trial Leguminose, and learn about their experiences, how it can positively affect others in the supply chain, and offer data-led research for all.
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Kings Crops Plot Tour
14:00 – Kings Stand DF D40
Kings Crops, the Groundswell Event Cover Crop Partner, welcome you to a walk and talk tour of their 30 diverse crop plots in the Demo Field. Learn from our team of advisors on how the innovative range of options on display can deliver an integrated approach for your soil health, integrated pest management, forage, Sustainable Farming Incentive, stewardship and private sector funding needs whilst improving water quality and the wider farmed environment. Autumn and spring sown catch, cover, companion, living mulch, grazing, winter bird food, pollinator and hedgerow options are all on display helping to bring your regenerative farming opportunities to life.
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Automated Biodiversity Monitoring
14:00 – UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Stand DF B31
Automated Biodiversity Monitoring Using AI for analysing images and audio the AMI system can be used for autonomous monitoring of biodiversity. In this hands on demonstration, we will talk about UKCEH’s research into automated monitoring of biodiversity and demonstrate in-field equipment for monitoring moths, birds and bats using cameras and microphones. The session will first discuss the need for biodiversity on farmland and then introduce the technologies used in the AMI system, helping to demystify AI used in biodiversity monitoring. We open up the hardware to those interested in how these systems work and discuss the types of data collected and how they can be used, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. With Jenna Louise Lawson.
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A Chat in the Dye Garden – Commissioning Natural Dyes for Knitwear
14:00 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
An informal chat in the dye garden between knitwear designer Katie Allen of Loopy Ewes and dye grower Sophie Holt of Pigment Organic Dyes sharing their experience of growing natural dyes to commission. Hosted by SWE Fibreshed. (Emma Hague & Katie Allen)
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Intercrop Separation & Cleaning Demo
14:15 – Behind Discussion Tent
A working demonstration of how the grain separation and cleaning system, owned by Weston Park Farms, overcomes the biggest barrier to growing intercrops – post-harvest separation.
The VibroMAX Intercropper separates and cleans bi-crops in a single pass, meeting common contract specifications, allowing farmers to take full advantage of the benefits of intercropping: higher yields, reduced synthetic inputs, increased biodiversity and improved soil health.
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Agroecology & Enterprise Stacking
14:30 – Tom the Apple Man Stand PF G25
We have a stand at the show and would like to talk about our 6.5 acre organic agroforestry fruit tree nursery that involves 4 other businesses working on the same site as part of a planned crop rotation. We have set up a CIC to grow food with the local school
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The Historic Wealth of the UK Economy Owes Much to British Wool – Can This History Repeat Itself & How Can we do it Regeneratively?
15:30 – Fibreshed Stand PF C22
The Historic Wealth of the UK Economy Owes Much to British Wool – Can This History Repeat Itself & How Can we do it Regeneratively? (Zoe Fletcher)
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Further sessions revealed daily
Main venue sessions can be found here