Simon Cowell
2022
Simon Cowell won the 2018 Soil farmer of The Year competition organised by Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit and Innovation for Agriculture. He started getting interested in soil and its biology twenty years ago and has been improving his heavy clay soils by stopping all tillage, making and applying highly biologically active compost and building mycorrhizal fungi populations. To prove the theory that a balanced soil food web can provide all the nutrients a crop needs, he hasn’t applied any phosphate or potash fertilisers in all that time and has started experimenting with cutting out nitrogen applications as well.
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Green Farming Collective Exposed
Timothy Parton
Simon Cowell
Michael Kavanagh
Richard Suddes
The Green Farming Collective are a group of six farmers who met via the ‘Soil Farmer of the Year’ competition. We believe in regenerative agriculture and the benefits of reduced pesticides, increased carbon capture and improved biodiversity, thus preventing the pollution of water, air and soil. We all work hard to improve the habitats and […]