As our final citizen event for the Farm Net Zero project, Westcountry Rivers Trust are collaborating with the experts from Budding Nature and Chris Jones from Woodland Valley Farm to deliver what promises to be a really special day of interactive learning. Budding Nature will introduce some basic ecological principles, including food webs, species interactions, ecological succession and population ecology in a classroom-based session. We will look at how these principles can inform the concept of nature recovery in the Westcountry and the role farming can play.
In an outdoor afternoon session, we will look at these ecological principles in action in the field accompanied by Chris Jones from Woodland Valley Farm, on tour of his 170 acre mixed farm. We will talk about the vital role that farms have in nature recovery and how we can support them. We will also have a guided tour of the beaver enclosure to see the astonishing impact these environmental engineers can have in habitat restoration.
There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. We hope you will be inspired to mirror some of the techniques being used by our Westcountry farmers in your own green spaces and be a part of nature recovery.
