Nick Padwick
2023
A farmer’s son from Hampshire, Nick studied at Sparsholt Agricultural College before moving to Co-operative Farms Group. Nick has managed several farming Estates, including the flagship Stoughton Estate, where he and his wife developed the Farm to Fork project. In 2009, Nick won the Farmer’s Weekly Farm Manager of the Year and Farmer of the Year Awards. In 2010, he joined the South Pickenham Estate where he managed a diverse 7,500 acre farm. Since 2018, Nick has managed the Ken Hill Estate, including the nationally-acclaimed Wild Ken Hill project, and led Peddar Farming, which farms over 5,000 acres in Norfolk.
My Sessions
Restoring the Soil Food Web at Scale
Two Norfolk farmers are experimenting with the Soil Food Web – a soil science course developed by the world’s foremost soil biologist, Dr. Elaine Ingham, and advertised as the key to rapid soil regeneration. In this session, Nick Padwick of Wild Ken Hill and Rosie Begg of Gorgate Farms will look at both theory and […]