Sophie Alexander

Sophie Alexander

2024

Sophie manages Hemsworth Farm, a 500-hectare organic arable and dairy farm in Dorset. Hemsworth Farm is part of a new collaborative project, funded through Innovate UK and Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, with Agri-EPI Centre, AgriSound, Dorset Wildlife Trust, Pollenize CIC and Chirrup AI. The project is testing whether technology can facilitate 24/7 monitoring on farm, quantifying biodiversity and improving access to scalable remote technologies. Sophie has utilised both traditional ecological and innovative technological approaches to biodiversity baselining on farm and gives insight into where additional data generation can be valuable, but a holistic approach to biodiversity can provide even greater value still.