This event will be based around the trial results for winter 2021-2022 from three Farm Net Zero farms.
The field walk will cover results for:
Forage quality
Forage yield
Soil health
Soil quality; and
A discussion on grazed winter cover crops within the rotation.
Location
The event will be hosted by Malcolm and Catherine Barrett of Tregooden Farm. Please meet in the farm yard PL30 3PS (What3words: modifies.tapers.zebra). The post code takes you to a neighbouring farm so continue up the hill 100 yards to Tregooden entrance. The trial seed was supplied by South West Seeds Ltd. and the forage analysis funded by FAB Farmers.
You are invited to come along and find out more about carbon calculation for dairy farms and dig a little deeper into the accounting process and where the differences are.
This workshop run as part of the Farm Net Zero project will use real farm data and showcase the results of different carbon calculators to provide a discussion point to look at how carbon calculators work on farm.
Areas for discussion will be:
The inclusion of sequestration – is soil carbon accounted for?
Farm scale or product level – what impact does it make?
How to use carbon tools to evaluate the impact of management change
How do carbon calculators align to future standards and requirements for ELMS
Meet at the Real Food Garden, Trelowarth, Inches, Bodmin PL30 5LR for a tour, and then reconvene at St Wenn Village Hall for discussion and lunch.
Time: 10.30 – 13.30
Lunch will be provided
Details
Amelia Lake of the Real Food Garden will discuss her vegetable production system, the challenges, the opportunities and how to sequester carbon whilst running an economically viable vegetable production system.
At this event, the Farm Net Zero team will host a discussion about:
Carbon accounting for vegetables
Nutrient management
Cover cropping
Soil health
The Field Lab for composting
We will launching this horticultural forum, and participants will have the opportunity to steer this group over the next 4 years.
A workshop aimed at farm advisors, agronomists, consultants and trainers.
Lunch will be provided
Details
With an increasing appreciation of the critical role and value of soil to our farm net zero ambitions comes a need for more effective measurement of soil carbon levels.
At this event, experts working on the Soil Carbon project will present new insights and recommendations including sampling to account for in-field variations, protocols for monitoring change over time and guidance on the practicalities associated with laboratory testing methods.
We will also be launching our Soil Carbon Field and Laboratory Guide.
Are you interested in understanding more about the link between nutrient dense food and soil health?
Would you like to learn practically how you can measure nutrient density in your crops?
Come along to this practical half day workshop to learn more about how to meaures and understand crop quality based on nutrient density and realise the potential to increase crop quality, save costs, and add value to the food that you produce.
This course will cover:
Background to the concept of nutrient density, how it can be measured using affordable hand-held tools and what this tells us about supporting natural ecosystems, including increased carbon sequestration and biodiversity, and the potential to increase health of animals and people
Practise using a hand-held Brix Refractometer to measure crop nutrient density
Take part in a taste testing session to deepen your understanding of the relationship between high and low values of nutrient density, and how this relates to healthy soil
Learn about the Bionutrient Food Association’s Real Food Campaign (USA) and development of their Bionutrient Meter to empower farmers, growers and food citizens to select nutrient dense food. Also, how their database is showing nutrient variation within the same crop to help increase our understanding of what crop quality is in relation to soil health and growing practices
The course is being run as part of the Farm Net Zero project and will be led by Matthew Adams from the Growing Real Food for Nutrition organisation. The course is open to horticulltural growers and numbers are limited, so book your place today.
Tim Williams at Erth Barton will take us on a farm walk to discuss the innovations he is using to restore the soil health and ultimately achieve carbon net zero. Details of his mixed sheep, beef and arable farm can be found here. Key areas for discussion at this launch event will be:
Soil health and Climate Compost
Regenerative farming
Diverse swards including a quasi-perennial system of arable wheat production
Location: what 3 words: zones.irony.flank / Blable Farm, St Issey, Wadebridge PL27 7RF
We have teamed up with the Robert’s family to address the potential of reaching carbon net zero on the beef and arable farm. Mike and his son Sam will lead a farm walk to showcase their high quality beef herd.
Further details about Blable Farm can be found here but key areas for discussion on the day will be:
The first Farm Net Zero launch event will take place at Ennis Barton. Andrew Brewer will discuss how he aims to achieve carbon net zero. There will be opportunities to discuss the innovations he has put in place, and the trials being under taken as part of the Farm Net Zero project.
Further details on Andrew’s farm can be found here but key areas for discussion will be:
Dairy systems grazed on a diverse sward system
Grazing management
Rotation including field vegetable in a mixed system
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