Tom Knowles
2024
Tom Knowles has significantly redesigned the system at the family farm in South Oxfordshire, including bi-cropping with no pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, livestock integration into the arable fields, complementing it all with extensive stewardship and SFI agreements, and involvement in the local landscape recovery project. With a background in soils, Tom is also focussed on how high-quality on-farm composting can form an integral part of a whole farm system that prioritises plant and soil health for greater farm resilience and environmental benefit.
My Sessions
Revenue & Resilience: Stacking Environmental Practices & Payment Schemes
Alastair Leake
Tom Knowles
Matt Clegg
Digby Sowerby
What is the value of moving towards nature focused farming? Where are farmers stacking ecological practices, environmental payment schemes and private finance. Join this session to hear how you can make the most of payment opportunities and adopt them at different scales to create positive impacts on the environment and improve the resilience of your […]
Feed the Soil – Innovations in Composting for Soil & Crop Health
Composted organic waste is a key input to provide food to soil organisms and build soil health and fertility in farming systems. Join us for this session to hear practical advice into how Johnson-Su, hot composting and vermicomposting techniques can be adopted and to find out what science and research is telling us about the […]