2025
Emily Padfield farms beef and sheep alongside her husband in Warwickshire. The lowland heavy-clay farm has transitioned from an 800-ewe indoor-lambing intensive sheep enterprise to one that has adopted Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing for its suckler herd and now outdoor-lambing flock. Diversifications include property lets, an equestrian facility and Biodiversity Net Gain projects. Emily is a 2022 Nuffield Scholar: “The Mob-Grazed Flerd: Improving soil, biodiversity and farm incomes”.
As UK land management shifts to prioritise biodiversity, land managers, educators and advisors face new challenges. Skills, guidance and support are key to planning and delivering sustainable farming that balances food and nature. This panel, with voices from policy, academia and practice, will explore how to build capacity for nature recovery, focusing not on the […]