Jules Phillips

Jules Phillips

2025

Jules set up Ham Street certified biodynamic vineyard in Kent in 2019 with his wife Lucie. With a background in finance, farming has been a new and exciting adventure. Newcomes to the industry has enabled them to challenge the status quo on how UK vineyards are started and maintained, focusing not on harmful inputs, but instead on regenerating the soil, developing as much life as possible, and supporting how the ecosystem around the vineyard contributes to the resilience and quality of the crop.

Worming your way to better soil health

Grass Tent

What a coup! ‘Vulgariser of science’ (a brilliant French phrase) and inspirational mycologist Marc-André Selosse, makes his first appearance at Groundswell. An unmissably energetic speaker, Marc-André will bring home the urgency of improving soil health, explain what makes for healthy soil and why earthworms have an important role to play. This theory will be brought […]

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