Sophie Robinson
2025
Sophie is the Land Use Plus project manager at Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, looking at landscape scale nature recovery through the lense of food production. The project has taken a particular focus on conservation grazing and deer numbers, including exploring the issues of local meat infrastructure and direct sales. https://bhfood.org.uk/land-use-plus-project/ https://bhfood.org.uk/the-local-meat-report/ https://openfoodnetwork.org.uk/food-partnership-meatshare/shop#/producers_panel
My Sessions
Food: The secret ingredient in nature recovery
Sophie Robinson
Ben Marks
Nick Weir
Hugh van Cutsem
Molly Biddell
How can food support nature recovery? Conservation grazing and the shooting of wild deer are both key ways in which habitats can be restored or protected, while providing high welfare, quality meat. Telling this story to consumers not only supports sales, but can bring knowledge of the importance of protecting rare, native habitats to a […]
Models for small-scale local meat and the infrastructure we need
Sophie Robinson
Edwin Brooks
Jen Hunter
Andy Gray
Jo Cartwright
Are you keen to work with livestock and sell direct to your community? Wondering how to make it work? We’re seeing an uptick in the number of people wanting to run high-welfare local livestock small-scale, often in tandem with other farm products but we’re also experiencing rapid loss of the necessary infrastructure. We’ll hear from […]