Programme
Outline

Day 1: FRI 22 NOV
REGENERATING THE LAND & THE REGION

MORNING PLENARY

FOREVER FARMING: Food security at a time of climate disruption

Philip Lymbery, Author, Sixty Harvests Left and CEO, Compassion In World Farming
How industrial farming is killing our world and how sustainable, humane alternatives are well able to feed everyone.

Prof Andy Neal, Rothamsted Research
Maintaining the soil conditions that will keep farms productive and profitable whatever the challenges of a changing climate.

Nikki Yoxall, Pasture For Life
The role of grazing animals and species-rich grasslands in protecting and securing the nation’s food supply.

Chair:  Kate Hughes, regenerative farmer

DAY 1: MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Breaking Free: Can Farming Ever Escape Its Glyphosate Dependency?
Professor Andrew Neal, Ian Wilkinson & Tim Parton

Financing Farm Transition: Unpacking Investment in Regenerative Agriculture
Tamara Giltsoff (Chair), Paul McMahon, Tim Coates, Mark Drewel, Alex Godfrey & Jess Edwards

Building a Successful Local Food System from The Ground Up
Hamish Evans, Adam Lockyear, Cerys Dehaini & Charlotte Barry (Chair)

Restoring Biodiversity on Livestock Farms
Tim Martin, Martin Lines & Holly Purdey

Opportunities Under Sustainable Farming Incentives Schemes
Jerry Alford

Unleashing the Productivity of Your Farm
Tim Williams, Jake Corin, Ian Robertson & Abby Rose

First Milk: How Healthy Soil Leads to a Healthy Business
Mark Brooking & Lucy Noad

Working Collaboratively
Abby Allen & Bertie Matthews

Steps on the Journey to Regenerative Farming + Base UK
Edward Gallia, Thomas Mitchell & Stephen Goodwin

LUNCHTIME PLENARY

OPPORTUNITY AGRICULTURE: How the Transition to Regenerative Farming Will Mean Better Times For Farming

Martin Lines, Nature Friendly Farming Network
How nature friendly farming will improve profits for farmers by adding income streams and reducing input costs.

George Dunn, Tenant Farmers’ Association
How tenant farmers and new tenancies can speed the transition to regenerative, profitable farming.

Niels Corfield, Regen Farming Consultant
Transitioning to lower cost, higher profit farming.

Chair:  Holly Purdey, regenerative farmer

DAY 1: AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

New Farms for New Farmers
George Dunn, Rebecca Laughton, Sarah Whittick.

Restoring the Healthy Loaf: Re-Thinking Bread from the Ground Up
David Brewer, Fred Price, Heloise Trott & Annie Landless

Agroforestry: Farming in Three Dimensions
Kate Hughes (Chair), Ben Raskin, Chris Jones & Jane Acton

The Holistic Value of Soil Health Data for Farm Businesses
Tom Tolputt, Tamara Giltsoff

The Magic of Diverse Pastures
Andy Wear, Ian Wilkinson & Nikki Yoxall

Outside The Box
George Ford, Nick Cavill & Clyde Jones (Chair)

The Weatherproof Farm: Grazing Through the Seasons
Niels Corfield & Silas Hedley-Lawrence

Regenerative Farming and Farm Income: Do the Numbers Stack Up
Marianne McHugh & Gemma Sparks

Roots to Regeneration
Caroline Grindrod, Claire Hill & ffinlo Costain

END OF DAY 1 FORUM

A quick-fire forum with an ad-hoc panel of speakers dealing with issues that have arisen during the day.

Day 2: SAT 23 NOV
HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

MORNING PLENARY

New Landscapes, New Hope: Transforming our countryside and communities for the challenges ahead.

Caroline Grindrod,  Roots To Regeneration
Caroline charts the social changes that have brought about our separation from nature and our current, environmentally-destructive farming system. She shows how the change to a holistic, systems approach to farming will lead to flourishing communities, farms and economies.

Sue Pritchard, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
An update on the politics of bringing about the much-needed transformation of our food and farming systems.

Merrick Denton-Thompson, Former President of the Landscape Institute
Merrick shares the results of a Defra-funded project on what would happen if an English county were farmed in ways that were ecological and took account of landscape differences. The results show big increases in biodiversity and farm profitability, plus huge benefits for the whole economy. Is this the ‘sustainable economic growth to every part of Britain’ that the new government speaks of?

DAY 2: MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Boosting Local Ecologically Grown Foods through the Hospitality Sector
Josh Eggleton, Luke Hassell & Matt Chatfield 

Accessing Affordable ‘Real’ Food
Dr Rebecca Sandover & Ped Asgarian, Carol Adams, Ian Smith & Andy Johnson

Food, Health and Climate
Charlotte Carson, Hugh Thomas, Becky Lovegrove, Manda Brookman

The Living Soil: Nurturing Nature’s Way
Nigel Cox, Sally Morgan, Jess Gough 

Integrating Food and Fibre Production to Diversify Farm Income and Build Soil Health
Zoe Gilbertson, Pauline Laurent & Luke Middleton, Tamara Giltsoff 

Land Sparing or Land Sharing? Why Britain’s Wildlife Need Both
Holly Purdey, Ed Green, James Grischeff & Simon Clarke

LUNCHTIME PLENARY

Re-settling Rural Britain: Building new farm communities

Kim Brooks, MD The Community Farm
Kim explores the connection between community and food. Every year The Community Farm welcomes over 1,500 people for well-being courses, social events and volunteering sessions on beautiful land overlooking Chew Valley Lake, just south of Bristol.

Nigel Cox, Organic Horticultural Consultant
The triumphs and pitfalls of running a community project based on healthy soils and permaculture.

James Odgers, Founder of Stream Farm
James asks the question: how can land use include the benefits of belonging in a community? From serfs to villeins, from Wat Tyler to the Levellers, from the Luddites to the common bond.  Seeking to recreate a sense of village on a Somerset farm using a sharing model developed from experiences around the world.

Chair: Max Cotton,  Smallholder and BBC radio presenter

DAY 2: AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

How the NHS Crisis Will Accelerate the Transition to Regenerative Farming
Genevieve Relton, Dr Lucy Williamson & Holly Whitelaw

First Milk: Evidence to Support the Activity. What Consumers Think About Regen.
Leona McDonald

Reclaiming Our Farming Narrative
Graham Harvey, Ben Eagle, ffinlo Costain, Mark Helyar & Anthony Bellekom

Skool Beanz – How we can inspire the future generations of growers and caretakers of the land. If we don’t engage our young, what is the point of being here!
Lara Honnor

The Critical Role of Short Food Supply Chains in Supporting Sustainable Farmers
Rich Osborn

Business Information Point: Taking Full Advantage of Subsidies Landscape
Marianne McHugh & Giles Adam

Butterflies, Bogs & Beavers: Restoring Biodiversity on Livestock Farms
Tim Martin & Chris Jones

END OF DAY 2 FORUM

A quick-fire forum with an ad-hoc panel of speakers dealing with issues that have arisen during the day.

Please note: many of our sessions are still in development. This programme is subject to change.

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