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River action, Landscape recovery and Food systems renewal
Launching We Are Avon, a place-based movement We are in a new and unique moment for climate action, food systems renewal and ecological...
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Jul 21, 20247 min read
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Innovate to Regenerate
Following on from the previous post on Technology and the Futures of Farming, this post reflects my own personal translation of this into...
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Jul 13, 20249 min read
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Technology and the futures of Farming – from AI to RI
Discussions around technology and farming tend to go in two polarising directions. The first party, and perhaps the most dominant in now...
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Jul 13, 202412 min read
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Regenerating hope in the dark
There is a great but complex stirring of hope as the regenerative movement takes hold across the ravaged plains of Earth. Soil, a...
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May 10, 20247 min read
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Learning from Liége
Lessons for a resilient local food culture This week I have had the joy to visit Liège, Belgium, and learnt about their 10 year journey...
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Mar 6, 20249 min read
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Regenerators 2024
What is the potential when a critical mass of humans begin truly giving their gifts to the regeneration of life? How do we make this...
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Feb 17, 20247 min read
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A Regenerative Movement
Seeds of a new food and land revolution in the shell of the old Does anyone else feel as though we are in a new and distinct moment for...
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Jan 19, 20249 min read
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Sowing seeds of stability
The case for a Basic Income for Farmers What if food producers received an unconditional living wage? What if this was combined with real...
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Dec 15, 20237 min read
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The inner seasons of Farmers
Mental health and farming ; holding hope and grief, joy and despair, resilience and adversity The inner and outer challenges of farming...
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Dec 1, 20239 min read
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Fruits and thorns of scale
These birthing years of Middle Ground Growers have taken us on a collective journey of human scale farming in a world of mechanisation...
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Nov 18, 20239 min read
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Pollinate Avon
Introducing an exciting new project to create pollinator abundance in our landscapes and farms! Pollinate Avon is a farmer and...
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Oct 17, 20233 min read
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Regenerating Beauty
Real beauty vs artificial cosmetics in the English countryside We are beings that are driven by beauty, whether we know it or not. So our...
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Sep 2, 20239 min read
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Think Global, Eat Local
Never has the act of eating had more global ripples and significance for our earth-human trajectory. We sit at a curious crossroads of...
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Jun 11, 20237 min read
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Belonging to place
! Very important headnote and footnote: When exploring and defining 'indigeneity', it is so important to acknowledge that it is beyond my...
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May 14, 20239 min read
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Perennial culture
Following on from a previous post ‘in defence of annual vegetables,’ where both the limits and potential of annual horticulture were...
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Apr 24, 20236 min read
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Soil Health & regeneration
Exploring the role of soil health in regenerative food and farming systems Introduction Soil health is often cited as the core tenet and...
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Apr 5, 202313 min read
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Growing the middle ground and dissolving barriers in food and farming spaces.
This year I am representing the National Farmers Union (NFU) as a ‘Young Farming Ambassador’ for the South West, as a 25 year-old new...
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Mar 3, 20238 min read
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Why even grow annual vegetables?
Annual vegetables often require more energy, more inputs and more intensive care than many other plants or animals. This is because they...
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Feb 19, 20237 min read
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Scales of transformation
Collaborative Agroecologies Part 3 – weaving scales of transformation from the interpersonal to the bioregional Part 1 of Collaborative...
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Jan 4, 20236 min read
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Navigating solutions amidst polarised politics and a change-averse culture
A Statement from Middle Ground Growers regarding the politicisation of our farm and livelihoods It has come to our attention that a small...
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Dec 16, 20226 min read
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