Event Category: Farm Net Zero

Sunday April 21st,  1:30pm – 4pm

Higher Culloden Farm, College Road, Camelford, PL32 9TL

Westcountry Rivers Trust’s Farm Net Zero team are joining Nourish Kernow for the project’s next climate-friendly gardening workshop.

Learn about the environmental benefits of planting trees, shrubs, and perennial plants alongside food crops. The event will include a hands-on soil health assessment that you can try at home, plus ideas to help you manage your garden to best sequester carbon and adapt to a changing climate, as well as boosting biodiversity.

You will be taking a look at the trees recently planted at the farm to support its habitat management plan and hearing about the inspiration and challenges behind the farm’s wider Community Supported Agriculture project to create a regenerative market garden on the edge of town.

Have fun as you learn about the environmental benefits of planting trees, shrubs, and perennial plants alongside food crops at home.

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Thursday 11^th January 10 – 2pm, Trewidland Village Hall (with an opportunity to go to Anthony Ellis’s farm Pensipple if the weather permits).

Tim Parton is a world-renowned regenerative farmer and Nick Woodyatt is a soil health consultant with a wealth of experience. This meeting will focus on the finer details of how you can get started with foliar feeding to improve yields, soil health, and reduce input costs.

This event follows the meeting on Wednesday the 10^th at Chapman’s Well and will focus on the practicalities of foliar feeding.

Please meet at the village hall PL14 4ST: (What3Words///headset.producing.tasters)

Lunch will be provided, so booking is essential.

To book your place, contact Hannah Jones ([email protected]), Alex Bebbington ([email protected]) or James Harbord ([email protected])

Tim Williams (Farm Net Zero Demo Farm) will give an update of progress so far at Erth Barton. Discussions will include grazing, pasture cropped wheat, compost and of course soil.

This Lottery-funded Farm Net Zero event.

Please meet at Erth Barton Farm. What3words:///consoles.mouse.butternut.

To book:

Pasties will be provided.

To book your place, contact Hannah Jones ([email protected]), Alex Bebbington ([email protected]) or James Harbord ([email protected])

Keep an eye on other Farm Net Zero events here.

Lindsay Whistance, expert on animal behaviour, health and welfare at the Organic Research Centre, will introduce us to how to improve the value of trees on farm for animal welfare.

This will be a fascinating talk and provide a new insight into how trees can fit into the
Cornish landscape enhancing farm resilience, biodiversity and carbon capture.

This Lottery-funded Farm Net Zero event will be hosted by Mike and Sam Roberts at
Blable Farm, Wadebridge, PL27 7RF.

Please meet in the farmyard: (What3words:///magic.consoled.inspects).

To book:

Pasties will be provided so please book a place with one of the Farm Net Zero project team:

• Alex Bebbington ([email protected]),
• James Harbord ([email protected]),
• Hannah Jones ([email protected]).

Keep an eye on other Farm Net Zero events here.

Insects play a fundamental role in our food growing and wider ecosystems.

Come along to the Westcountry Rivers Trust’s next climate-friendly gardening workshop to learn how we can support them in our gardens and reap the benefits, as we all adapt to the effects of climate change.

This session will be hosted by the productive Community Roots Garden.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Explore the companion planting and beetle banks of the Community Roots’ Garden to spot and identify different insects.
• Learn about creating insect habitat in your growing space.
• Build a bee hotel to take home.

Check out the poster here.

This event was organised as part of the Farm Net Zero project, find out more here.

Farm Net Zero Monitor Farmer, Peter Cox has been growing lucerne for silage over a number of years and takes an average of 13 cuts over the 4-year lifetime of the crop. The yield ranges from approximately 15 to 18 tonnes an acre at a crude protein value of 24%.

Come to this field walk to understand the agronomy unique to lucerne, and how this crop could improve the resilience of your system.

Please park at Burraton farm barns next to Tremeadan House, PL17 8LL on Stoke Road: (What3words:///blazed.memory.florists).

Pasties will be provided so please book a place with one of the Farm Net Zero project team.

To book:

Please email –

• Alex Bebbington ([email protected]),
• James Harbord ([email protected]);
• Stefan Marks ([email protected])

This event is part of a series of events run by the Farm Net Zero project and funded by The Lottery Community Fund.

THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED

This is a joint Lottery-funded Farm Net Zero and FABulous Farmers Demonstration Event.

Matt Chatfield founder of the Cornwall Project will give us a tour of his farm with a detailed discussion of how crucial ruminants are to support biodiversity.

His grazed woodlands are central to his forage management plan and meat marketing. This will be a fascinating talk and provide a new insight into agroforestry providing a spotlight on how trees can enhance livestock welfare and production.

When:

Tuesday 20th June 11am – 1.30pm

Where:

Lower Farm, Halwill, Devon, EX21 5UH. Please meet in the farmyard: (What3words:///oatmeal.gallons.lessening).

To book:

Pasties will be provided so please book a place with one of the Farm Net Zero project team

• Alex Bebbington ([email protected]),
• James Harbord ([email protected]);
• Hannah Jones ([email protected])

Hosted by the West Country Rivers Trust as part of the Farm Net Zero project, join the next climate-friendly gardening workshop, hosted by the thriving Loveland Community Field in Penryn.

Gain tips on how to start your own forest garden and take a look at the agroforestry planting at Loveland.

🌳 Take a look at the new agroforestry planting at Loveland and hear about the challenges and inspiration behind the project

🌳 Gain tips on how to start your own forest garden

🌳 Learn how to manage your garden to reduce carbon emissions and boost biodiversity

Find out more and reserve your FREE spot here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forest-gardening-and-agroforestry-workshop-tickets-641223194837

An event for the community at the hub of the Stoke Climsland Farm cluster

Bonny Lightfoot of Alren farm has been one of the farmers central to building the award winning 21-strong Stoke Climsland Farm Cluster. Bonny, Tim and Jake are holding an event to discuss what they are doing to improve water quality and support biodiversity.

Other speakers include:

• Robin Jackson (Duchy College) Director of the Rural Business School
• James Harbord (Westcountry Rivers Trust)
• James Coumbe (Westcountry Rivers Trust) Land Adviser, and Farm Cluster Coordinator
• Hannah Jones (Farm Carbon Toolkit) Soil quality and carbon adviser

The Defra Funding will support innovations by the Lightfoots and others in the farm cluster to enhance the beautiful environment of the Stoke Climsland Parish.

This Lottery-funded Farm Net Zero event will take place at the Alren Farm, Stoke Climsland, PL17 8PT on the 24th June at 11am-2pm.

Please meet at the farm (What3words:///averts.warblers.remodel).

Pasties will be provided so please book a place (email below)

To book your place, contact:

• Alex Bebbington ([email protected])
• James Harbord ([email protected])
• Hannah Jones ([email protected])