2025
Cameron is a partner in Goose Meadow Farming Limited and a 4th generation tenant farmer in SW Lancashire. The farm grows wheat, barley, oats, beans and potatoes on mainly peat soils. Currently the NW AHDB Cereals Monitor Farm, in 2023 Cameron became involved with the Lowland Agricultural Peat Water Discovery Pilot project and developed an interest in wetter farming. He has since established a field scale trial growing 6ha of Typha (Bulrush) and is currently building a Typha Harvester.
Lowland carbon peat soils are precious — from storing vast amounts of carbon to being a key wildlife, food and hydrological resource. Yet they are severely degraded, leading to soil and nature loss and greenhouse gas emissions. This session will explore the tools we have to rethink agriculture on lowland peat with speakers [including farmers] […]