The latest news from the Upper Beult Farmer Cluster

2021 saw a record participation in the Big Farmland Bird Count. In Kent, 53 farmers took part with a total area of 13,462 ha (33,251

For the two presentations from Ben and James, check out the links below:   ELMs update Feb 2021 from James Woodward of Sustain Food and

Marketing your Farm Direct to the Consumer – a talk from Jill Sargent of Produced in Kent. Jill Sargent joined ‘Produced in Kent’ in 2006

Becky has been Project Manager for the Farm Carbon Toolkit for the last 7 years. She is involved in many applied research projects. Her areas

Dr Liz Genever is the former senior beef and sheep scientist at AHDB with a technical background in sheep and beef fertility and breeding, and

In November 2020, we were joined by George Young who farms in Fobbing, South Essex.  George farms in partnership with his parents growing approximately 1200

Peter Lundgren is a conventional arable farmer in Lincolnshire growing combinable crops. He is also a campaigner for a viable sustainable future for British farming.

In June 2020, we were joined by Alice Trickey. Alice is a professional Blue Badge guide in London as well as a keen naturalist and

Members across nine different member farms worked on the Nature’s Sure Connected monitoring project to collect and share data to understand the state of nature

In March, cluster members took part in a project to explore soil biology and the impact of the biology on decomposition rates below ground. Taking

Watercourse management has been a topic that has been raised in a number of our meetings. Amy Husk, a cluster member from Ramstile Farm, has

We were delighted to welcome Tim Williams at the 2nd Cluster meeting. Tim talked about his experience in regenerative agriculture and discussed rebuilding soil health.