From putting 30 litres of raw milk in a fridge to selling cheese all over the country and further afield Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore’s story is certainly an inspiring one in a few years when dairy farming seems to have faced little but bad news. Jonny’s Baron Bigod cheese, made from the milk of hisContinueContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 30 – Jonny Crickmore”
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‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 29 – Martin Lines
Episode 29 of the Meet the Farmers podcast features Cambridgeshire arable farmer and UK Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, Martin Lines. We spoke at length about farming and conservation, the growth of the network and the work that Martin is doing on his own farm to improve the state of nature there. AlsoContinueContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 29 – Martin Lines”
Meet the Farmers – episode 28 – ‘Searching for Common Ground at the Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference’
Every January well over a thousand people gather in Oxford to talk all things connected to food and farming, at the Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference. For the first time I attended both conferences in an attempt to search for common ground and to see whether delegates would be interested inContinueContinue reading “Meet the Farmers – episode 28 – ‘Searching for Common Ground at the Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference’”
‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 27 – Guy Smith
Episode 27 of the Meet the Farmers podcast features Essex farmer and Deputy President of the National Farmers Union, Guy Smith. Much of Guy’s land lies below sea level, similar to my own family’s farm which is situated just a few miles north, so his farm is at long term threat from sea level rise.ContinueContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 27 – Guy Smith”
‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 26 – Teleri Fielden
I’m really excited to introduce this special podcast episode to you which was produced in collaboration with Matt Williams and the Wild Voices Project podcast. We visited Teleri Fielden (@TeleriFielden), a first generation farmer, who won a Wales Young Farmers Clubs and National Trust scholarship to run a farm in north west Wales for threeContinueContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 26 – Teleri Fielden”
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