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#ORFC20
Day 1: 8th January 2020
Assembly Old Council Long court St Aldates St Aldates ST ALDATES CHRISTOPHER ROOM CONFERENCE ROOM green room BARRISTERS
Main Hall Room Library Chamber Room Room Room church TAVERN (St aldates centre) (St aldates centre) (St aldates centre) ROOM
8:30 Registration:
- Upstairs in the
9:30 Oxford Town Hall
9:30
- Opening Plenary
10:15
10:15
- Break Break
10:30
ARMs for Farms!
What Can We
The Value of How retailers Peasant Bakeries: Systems Thinking The Search For
10:30 Animal Feeds: Learn From Our How to Set Up Drop In Session; An
Food, Farming and Tree Fodder in can increase A New Model Towards a People’s for Just, Equitable, Land:
- What we feed Soils? Taking Soil and Run a Farm Introduction to Shumei
11:30 Climate Justice Silvopasture the demand for from Grain to Land Policy Ecological UK Food and A European
livestock matters Tests to the Next Start Natural Agriculture
Systems sustainably-grown Loaf Farming Overview
Level
fruit and veg
11:30
- Break Break
12:00
Woodland and
Farming While Yes We Can! How Market Gardening
Agroforestry:
12:00 Black: African Fixing the UK growers could Practical Ways Agroforestry at Lauriston Farm:
Diversifying the Offering Hemp: A Thread of
- Diasporic Wisdom Benefits of Pulses meet demand to Achieve Zero Handbook Reviving small raised
13:00 Grain Chain New Business Hope
for Farming and in Crop Rotations for fruit and Carbon in the UK Drop-In beds within a mixed
Opportunities for
Food Justice vegetables farm
Farmers
13:00 Lunch served in the
- Church
13:30
LUNCHTIME
LUNCHTIME LUNCHTIME
LUNCHTIME Farm Succession, NETWORKING TALK: How LUNCHTIME TALK:
13:30 Practical Progress TALK: Improving DROP-IN: LUNCHTIME TALK:
TALK: 2019: The Family Business, SESSION: Insects Migrate The Nature and Workshop: Personal
- towards Public farm productivity Harvesting Ideas Power, Privilege and
14:15 Year Agroecology and Democratic Practical Ways to and Influence Soil Bio-Diversity Nuance of Farming for Resilience
Goods while looking after for Farmer-Led
Went Worldwide Ownership Achieve Net Zero Health Across HealthResilience
the environment Innovation
Continents
13:15
-
14:30
Gearing Up for
A Food Strategy Climate
Transforming Land Agroecology; Learning from
for the UK: Local Change and UK How Do We Really Is the Present Workshop: How to be
14:30 Ownership and Transforming Regionalwert Creating a Viable Making Your Food Farming So White:
food systems and Horticulture: Lean Mean Reduce Pesticides? Neoliberal Economy Brilliant at Horticultural Drop in session:
- Land Stewardship Publicly Funded in Germany: Future with Enterprise More Land Ownership, Race
access to healthy, What is to Come Growing Machine Crowd-Sourcing the Fit for Purpose? Training (for Growers Farmers Rebellion (XR)
15:30 Models for the Research and Financing localised Marginal Grazing
Answer Efficient and Racism in Britain
affordable food and How to Build and Trainers)
Future Innovation for the food systems
for all Resilience
Public Good?
15:30
- Break Break
16:00
What Will Post- The Herdsman: a
The Farm that Answering to the Next
Brexit Trade Performance by Georgia Small-Scale Grain
Grows Water: Real Farming Farmer-Led Wake Up to FOLLOW-ON Generation; A Young
16:00 Deals Mean for Wingfield-Hayes Securing Land for the Production and Roundtable:
Combining animals Solutions to Overcoming Innovation and Genome Editing: SESSION: People’s Assembly
- Our Farmers, on the National Food Common Good
and trees to Reducing Planning Barriers Research for Is it a Threat or an Climate Change Processing: The How LGBTQIA+ LWA
17:00 Environment, Strategy for England
combat climate Antibiotic Use Agroecology Opportunity? Prep Session Being a Resilient To Toolkit
Welfare and Food Exploring Rural
change Farmer in Times of
Standards?
Change Enterprise and
17:00 Regenerative
- Entrepreneurship
17:30
17:30
-
18:00 An evening of food,
Take the LEAP:
drink and music, run
Funding for
18:00 by the Landworker’s
Agroecological and
- Alliance. Closes Immersive experience;
18:30 Community Food
at 10 pm. Peas on Earth with
Businesses
18:30 artist, Maya Chowdhry
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19:00
19:00
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20:00
orfc.org.uk 3OXFORD TOWN HALL FLOOR PLAN WELCOME TO THE 11TH ANNUAL ORFC!
OXFORD
OXFORD TOWN
TOWN HALL
HALL FLOOR
FLOOR PLAN
PLAN With a few obvious exceptions most of the world’s leaders Even fewer recognise that the changes we need cannot be
seem to recognise that the world is in crisis on just about achieved ad hoc. Specifically, we need as a matter of urgency
every front (climate change, runaway extinctions, social and to acknowledge that the present “neoliberal” economy -- a
economic injustice and inequality, political and civil unrest, global, all-out, ruthless competition for profit and market
ill-health, depression). Most seem to recognise too that food share, purely an exercise in money -- is not fit for purpose.
and farming are at the heart of all the world’s problems. They The world, and agriculture in particular, need something very
are the aspects of life that we absolutely have to get right but different. Yet – this is the sticking point! – challenges to
in practice, are getting most wrong. business as usual are written off as “unrealistic”.
But very few leaders – any? - acknowledge that the changes ORFC was intended from its beginning, a decade ago, to
we need are radical. In particular we need to move away be radical – and so it continues. Speakers this year -- led as
from hyper-industrial agriculture – high-tech, high-input, always by farmers! -- are addressing all the big issues of the
minimum-to-zero labour monocultures on the largest possible modern world. They are demonstrating once more that there
scale, designed to maximise and concentrate wealth. Instead are solutions out there, and good people the world
we need to practice Enlightened Agriculture, aka Real Farming over are showing that they work. But they won’t work if
– designed expressly to produce good food without wrecking we remain within the confines of the status quo. As always,
everything else, and based on the principles of agroecology and the task is not simply to suggest solutions but to build the
food sovereignty. Real Farming requires farms that are diverse alternative world.
and low-input: highly complex, skills-intensive, and generally
small to medium-sized, feeding into markets that are as local Colin Tudge and Ruth West
as is sensible – the very opposite of “official” policy. The Real Farming Trust
FROM THE CONFERENCE TEAM: year’s programme but our special thanks go to Agricology,
The Soil Association and Innovative Farmers, and the
Francesca Price, Hannah Fenton, Katherine Mansell, Pasture Fed Livestock Association who have curated the
and Ruth West Assembly Room and St Aldates Room programme and
The Land Workers’ Alliance who have organised all the
We had an overwhelming response to our call for sessions for sessions in the Old Library and the bar and entertainment in
this year. We have done our best to accommodate as many the St Aldates Church.
ideas as possible within the space available, but this has led to a
very full programme. Our thanks to Blackwell’s who are once again providing
our bookstall, making sure conference speakers’ books are
We suggest you don’t try to get to everything and give yourself available to buy. And to Good Food Oxford for ensuring
a good amount of time to socialise and enjoy the delicious local that ORFC enjoys the best of Oxford’s local food.
food available in the St Aldates Church. There are shorter talks Lunchtime and evening catering is provided by Will’s Deli;
and networking sessions programmed in some of the rooms Sandy Lane Farm; Ellie’s Kitchen; Organic Deli; I Love
during lunchtime but if you want to take a break, please do! Ethiopia; Handlebar Café and The Curiosities. Our evening
dinners take place at The Vaults & Garden Cafe and Turl
OUR SPONSORS Street Kitchen.
We would be unable to offer tickets at a reasonable price or
have bursaries available without the generous support of so We are also delighted to welcome Farmerama as our
many individuals and organisations. Our thanks go to Esmée media partner and Greenhouse PR, who have supported
Fairbairn Foundation, The A Team Foundation, Compassion in the communications team to ensure the key messages of
World Farming, The Soil Association and Innovative Farmers, ORFC reach out far and wide.
Agricology, Cotswold Seeds, Riverford Organic Farmers,
Lush, Triodos Bank, and the Organic Herb Trading Company. OUR CONFERENCE TEAM
We are supported by Jade Neville, Ben Brown,
A huge thanks to Chelsea Green Publishing, in particular Christabel Buchanan (Operations Support), Peter Lefort
Rosie Baldwin, for introducing us to Leah Penniman and Ben and Henry Owen (Technical Support). Our thanks to
Hartman, and sponsoring their visits here. (Their books will all of them. Also to our team of volunteers who make
be available to buy along with others in the Chelsea Green sure that everyone is well looked after and all sessions run
catalogue.) to time.
OTHER SUPPORTERS Finally, we are grateful to Oxford City Council and the St
We are grateful to all our participants who have provided this Aldates Church for their continued support.
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GETTING TO SESSIONS
Most of the sessions take place in the
St Aldates Church. You will need cash
to buy meals from them as they are not
However, there will plenty to keep you
fed and entertained in the St Aldates
8.30-9.30 Silvopasture is an ancient practice
that integrates trees and pasture into
launched by Growing Communities,
aiming to promote the Alternative
Oxford Town Hall. Some sessions take included in the conference ticket price. Church, where Landworkers Alliance a single system for raising livestock. Routes to Market (ARMs) model that
place in the St Aldates Centre, which is members, the Old Tree Brewery, will MAIN HALL
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE/TEA Research from Project Drawdown – the needs to be developed in tandem with
on Pembroke Street, a few minutes walk Our caterers have all been selected by be running a bar serving their own
from the Town Hall. Here you will find Good Food Oxford for their sourcing botanical beers as well as a range of Please arrive in plenty of time to register, global research organisation - suggests agroecological production in order to
the Christopher Room, the Conference credentials i.e. local and organically alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. review the programme and have a cuppa silvopasture is the most effective support growers with fair prices sufficient
Room and the Green Room. To get there sourced produce wherever possible. There will also be music by Brendan before the opening plenary. climate change mitigation solution of all to create viable livelihoods. We’ll look at
cross the road from the Town Hall, turn They include: Rowley and Robbie Humphries from agricultural strategies. However, there what the BFT network has to offer ethical
left, then right into Pembroke Street,
and the entrance is on your right. • Will’s Deli: organic stews and salads
the blue-grass covers band, The Cash
Cows. 9.30-10.15 are also animal welfare and productivity
benefits through the provision of shelter,
retailers, how Sustainable Food Cities can
support this work, and outline work by the
with meat, vegetarian and vegan shade and as a valuable source of food. Landworkers’ Alliance on the production
Some sessions take place upstairs in the options ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE MAIN HALL
St Aldates Tavern, which is across the • Sandy Lane Farm: hearty vegetarian OPENING PLENARY This session will give a brief overview of and supply side.
This year we will have inTer-aCtive
road from the Town Hall, and slightly to and vegan winter warming organic food. artist and award winning poet, Maya Please join us for the opening of ORFC what silvopasture is and its benefits before
the left. All dishes are made with ingredients Chowdhry making Live Art in the 2020. This is the first time delegates delving into more detail about why two LONG ROOM
freshly harvested from their farm just Christopher Room on Wednesday producers are planting trees on their PEASANT BAKERIES: A NEW
Most of the networking and all of the outside Oxford will gather together and is an important
from 5.30 pm – 8.00 pm. Maya’s moment which will set the agenda for the farms. It will have a particular focus on MODEL FROM GRAIN TO LOAF
informal lunch and evening catering • Organic Deli: brunch, sourdough, bowls work focuses on such themes as food trees as a food source and highlight new Speakers: Nicolas Supiot, Les Jardins de
takes place in the St Aldates Church. of goodness, slow pressed juice and sovereignty, world water scarcity and two days to come. You will be welcomed
Cross the road from the Town Hall, turn plant-based goodies by drummers from the Shumei Taiko research on the mineral composition of Siloé
climate justice. (Please book your place tree leaves and how best to utilise some Katie Hastings, The Gaia Foundation
left, and continue past the turning to • I Love Ethiopia: including a spiced in one of her sessions at registration). Ensemble and key speakers will give
Pembroke Street. The Church is on vegan medley using locally-grown We will also be joined by drummers short addresses that will help frame your of the concentrations identified as a Chair: Rupert Dunn, Torth Y Tir
your right. vegetables from the Shumei Taiko Ensemble who experience of this year’s conference. supplement for sheep. Nicolas Supiot is one of the most
• The Handlebar Café: sourdough bread, aim to advance peace and harmony by famous peasant bakers in France, often
There is a map of the Town Hall on soup and PLFA-sourced cheese Don’t miss out!
bridging cultural differences through OLD LIBRARY credited as the man who revived the word
page 4 and a map of all the venues on • The Curiosities: hand-cured bacon baps
page 48. made with local rare breed / organic
their drumming performances.
(Shumei International will be talking 10.30-11.30 ANIMAL FEEDS: WHAT WE FEED
LIVESTOCK MATTERS
‘peasant’ from its derogatory past. For
this session, Nicolas will be joining Rupert
pork and local bread, plus veggie club about natural agriculture and their
CAPACITY OF ROOMS sandwiches MAIN HALL Speakers: Christine Page, Smiling Tree Dunn from the Welsh Bakery, Torth Y
approach to farming shortly afterwards). Farm Tir, to talk about his practices for taking
Please note that not all of the rooms are • Ellie’s Kitchen: Greek savoury and Also, ORFC’s regular EnviroVisuals FOOD FARMING AND CLIMATE
big enough for everyone who wants to sweet pies - traditional, seasonal and artist, Rebecca Roberts, will be visually JUSTICE Samuel Smith, Forum for the Future, grain from genetically-diverse landrace
attend certain sessions. We recommend organic documenting some ORFC sessions. Karen Luyckx, Feedback seed populations all the way to wood-
arriving early to the sessions to ensure Speakers: Gail Bradbrook, Extinction
Rebellion Ben Scriven, Tamarisk Farm fired sourdough on his Brittany farm.
you get in. EVENING DINNERS AND COMMUNICATIONS/PRESS Chair: Jyoti Fernandes, Landworkers’ The session will focus on the key ethos,
ENTERTAINMENT Oli Rodker Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA)
We will have sign-up sheets for the The Oxford Real Farming Conference There will be photography and filming Alliance methodology and equipment for a peasant
at the conference. Please let us know Peter Stevenson, Compassion in World
workshops on the concertina boards in isn’t just about farming… It’s also a Farming (CIWF) Animal feed is increasingly under the bakery, as well as exploring diversity from
the Main Hall. However, if you haven’t celebration of the farming community! at registration if you do not want to be spotlight for its environmental impacts. the soil up; and some of the more esoteric
filmed. Chair: John Vidal, Journalist
signed up for these and want to take We invite you to join us on the evening What we feed livestock matters, because aspects of what it means to be a peasant
part, it is still worth coming along as of Wednesday 8th January at various Our food and farming system is at the
Members of the press: the press centre of the global climate change it relates to about half of the agricultural baker, reviving our relationship with the
there may be spaces available on venues across the city. land on the planet, 80 percent of which elements, with wheat, with ourselves and
the door. room is located in the Jury Room (see debate and all possible pathways to reduce
Local restaurants, chosen by Good Food map). Our Communications Director, emissions to net zero will have dramatic is grasslands. In particular, pig and poultry each other.
ACCESSIBILITY Oxford for their sourcing credentials, Katherine Mansell, will be available to production has a major dependency on
assist you in finding interviewees or effects on what we eat, how it is produced
The Town Hall, the Christopher Room play host to two official dinners, starting and how it is distributed around the world. soy imported from Latin America, and fish COURT ROOM
and the Conference Room and the St at 19.00. They are: quiet places to film. oil which is linked to overfishing. In this WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM OUR
However, when it comes to the detail of
Aldates Church are fully accessible. session, we’ll provide an overview of the SOILS? TAKING SOIL TESTS TO THE
• The Vaults & Garden (1 Radcliffe Can all delegates please put their what will enable that transition to happen,
phones on silent, which includes off how coherent are our visions and how challenges and opportunities, showcasing NEXT LEVEL
Both evening dinner venues are fully Sq, Oxford, OX1 4AH), which will some of the actions farmers are taking on Speakers: Elizabeth Stockdale
accessible. be hosted by the Real Farming Trust vibrate! However, you are welcome to effective are our strategies? Join our panel
and will serve a three-course lamb or tweet from the sessions. Please include of farmers and climate activists, from the feed sustainability. NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural
However, due to issues with renovating vegetarian meal in their historic venue, our hashtag which is #ORFC20. UK and around the world for a debate Botany)
an old building, we’re sorry to say that with lamb supplied by Sandy Lane Farm Please tweet us @ORFC. COUNCIL CHAMBER Tim Williams, The Pastoral Collective
exploring proposals for socially just and
the Green Room and upstairs at the St and vegetables supplied by Worton environmentally sustainable food and ARMS FOR FARMS! HOW Niels Corfield, Soils Advisor
Aldates Tavern are not accessible. Organic Garden. DISCLAIMER RETAILERS CAN INCREASE THE Jenni Dungait, Soil Health Expert
We have done our best to ensure that farming systems in the context of climate
the programme accurately describes change, and the social and political changes DEMAND FOR SUSTAINABLY Chair: Abby Rose, Sector Mentor for
TEA AND COFFEE • Turl Street Kitchen (16-17 Turl St, GROWN FRUIT AND VEG Soils
Tea and coffee are available free-of- Oxford OX1 3DH), which will be the agenda and the speakers’ and that are necessary to achieve them.
charge on both days in the Main Hall hosted by the Pasture Fed Livestock chairs’ biographies for the two days. Speakers: Natasha Soares, Better Food This is a practical discussion on how
of the Oxford Town Hall and in the St Association and Compassion in World But some mistakes and discrepancies ASSEMBLY ROOM Traders farmers can get tangible insights from
Aldates Church. You will also be able to Farming and will serve a three-course are inevitable, especially for last minute Rebecca Laughton, Landworkers’ Alliance simple soil health tests that we can do
speakers, for which we apologise. THE VALUE OF TREE FODDER IN
browse exhibition stands in both venues. beef or vegan meal, with 100% pasture- Ben Reynolds, Sustainable Food ourselves. How can we use data from slake
fed beef supplied by Manor Farm, SILVOPASTURE SYSTEMS
Speakers: Tim Pagella, Bangor University Cities / Sustain scores to understand levels of soil carbon?
LUNCHES AND INFORMAL Hampton Gay. CONTACT Chair: Julie Brown, Growing Communities Can data from visual evaluation of soil
EVENING CATERING Keep in touch during and after the Nigel Kendall, University of Nottingham
At lunchtime on both days, and on the These dinners are not included in the conference! Tweet @ORFC use the Tim Downes, The Farm The session will introduce the Better structure be combined with infiltration
evenings of 7th and 8th January, you conference ticket and have now both hashtag #ORFC20 and sign up to our Chair: Helen Chesshire, Woodland Trust Food Traders Network - a new initiative rates to show soil erosion risk? Farmers,
can choose a meal from caterers in the sold out. mailing list at orfc.org.uk
6 @ORFC #ORFC20 orfc.org.uk 7DAY 1 – 8th JANUARY DAY 1 – 8th JANUARY
scientists and soil health specialists will How do you effect bottom-up change harmony with nature. A guiding principle including nitrogen fixation and habitat Countryside Link Adding trees to farms stores carbon, can
share learnings; and the Soilmentor team in the UK food system? We know that of Shumei is the inherent power of the for pollinators and natural enemies. As The Government’s legally-binding boost productivity, diversifies outputs,
will share plans for ecological tools such change is vital for justice, equity and soil to produce healthy crops. Natural such, diversifying rotations with pulses can target of net zero carbon by 2050 has and provides a host of other benefits.
as a carbon meter / soil erosion meter / tacking climate change and biodiversity Agriculture builds the foundation of a enhance system productivity. Moreover, huge implications for farming and land But how do we overcome the financial,
biodiversity indicator which farmers can loss, yet instead of system change we sustainable lifestyle by developing a deep with increasing demand for plant-based management in the UK. In this session, skills, supply chain and market barriers
use to get value from soil health data they face proposals for further concentrations respect for nature and helps restore the protein, there is a growing potential experts from all sides of the debate will to make trees a successful business? This
have collected on their farms. of power, including linear techno-fixes relationship between humankind and the market for UK-grown pulses. However, interrogate exactly what net zero means session will showcase a range of options
that will merely increase our problems. In environment. It also fosters an attitude growing pulses is considered inherently for farmers and land managers on the and exciting new approaches: identifying
ST ALDATES ROOM a situation where farmers take the risks of trust, gratitude and care. Following on risky and farmers face several challenges ground. Discussion will range from the financial opportunities offered by trees;
HOW TO SET UP AND RUN A FARM and companies reap the profits, how can from their impressive drumming which in production and marketing. This session science that underpins net zero, to the how can farmers become foresters?;
START systems thinking and solutions help in opened the conference, come and join the will get into the nitty gritty of growing politics behind the ambitious target, the innovative tenancies and collaborations
Speakers: Helen Woodcock, The Kindling building new, fair, resilient food systems director of Shumei International, along pulses, with experience from research and policies we will need to make it a reality between landowners, farmers, and tree
Trust for the UK? with several farmers, to learn more about practice, and explore opportunities for and the pioneering action some farmers growers; the key role of land agents for
Simon Platten, Tamar Grow Local this way of farming. overcoming some of the challenges. are already taking. This session will be flexible tenancies; cooperative working to
Ru Litherland, OrganicLea CONFERENCE ROOM followed by a lunchtime session (in the take advantage of scale; accessing markets
Chair: Steph Wetherell, Landworkers’ THE SEARCH FOR LAND: A 12.00 – 13.00 OLD LIBRARY Long Room) where farmers will be invited and creating new markets; developing
Alliance EUROPEAN OVERVIEW YES WE CAN! HOW UK GROWERS to take part in facilitated discussions, supply chains; and opportunities from new
Do you have land and want to support Speakers: Roz Corbett, Scottish Farm MAIN HALL COULD MEET DEMAND FOR FRUIT tailored to their specific farm context, funding streams.
a new entrant to establish a business? Land Trust FARMING WHILE BLACK: AFRICAN AND VEGETABLES about practical action they can take on
Does your organisation want to support Adam Barnett, RSPB DIASPORIC WISDOM FOR Speakers: Courtney Scott, Food their farm right now to tackle emissions ST ALDATES ROOM
new entrants to access land, training Véronique Rioufol, Terre de Liens FARMING AND FOOD JUSTICE Foundation, and store carbon. AGROFORESTRY HANDBOOK
and markets? Perhaps you’re already Samson Hart Speaker: Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm Rebecca Laughton, Landworkers’ DROP-IN
involved in running a Farm Start or an Chair: Tom Carman, Real Farming Chair: Samra Mariam, Trustee, Real Alliance/ Growing Communities, LONG ROOM Come along and pick up a copy of the
Incubator Farm project? Come along to Trust / Ethex Farming Trust Adam Payne, Landworkers Alliance DIVERSIFYING THE GRAIN CHAIN Soil Association’s recent Agroforestry
hear about the Farm Start model and the Are you involved in finding, buying, or Some of our most cherished sustainable Chair: Julie Brown, Growing Communities Speaker: Kimberly Bell, Small Food Handbook for the UK (while stocks last),
network being set up by the Landworkers’ renting land for agroecology? Or are you farming practices - from organic A recent study suggested that we Bakery and talk agroforestry with authors and
Alliance with OrganicLea, The Kindling aware of a land struggle to save or secure agriculture to the farm cooperative - should be eating seven portions of Cory Mason, The Oxford Artisan editor. Find out more about opportunities
Trust and Tamar Grow Local. This session land for agroecology? We’re wanting to have roots in African wisdom. Yet, Black fruit and vegetables a day, rather than Distillery (TOAD) for agroforestry in the UK and where
will feature an introduction to the model get a sense of the different approaches farmers experience discrimination and the government-recommended five. Paul Wyman, Tuxford Windmill to link into local initiatives and learning
and a discussion about the guidebook that are being tried, where the blocks marginalisation worldwide. Author, However, If the whole UK population Fred Price, Gothelney Farm networks.
that has been produced. It will provide an are, where most innovation is happening, activist, farmer and founder of Soul Fire were to eat like this, UK growers would Chair: Katie Bell, The Gaia Foundation
opportunity to make contacts with other and the extent of the need for legislative Farm in New York, Leah Penniman is need to produce an additional two million Crop diversity has been in rapid decline UPSTAIRS @ ST ALDATES TAVERN
people working on Farmstarts, get help change in the ownership and distribution committed to ending racism and injustice tonnes of fresh produce. At the same for the last 100 years, particularly when it MARKET GARDENING AT
developing your ideas, and troubleshoot of land. Please tell us about your in our food system. Through programmes time, horticultural labour shortages comes to grains grown in the UK. Where LAURISTON FARM: REVIVING
problems experiences; and hear more about how the such as the Black-Indigenous Farmers threaten to reduce domestic supply. LWA we once had a patchwork of regionally- SMALL RAISED BEDS WITHIN A
situation in England, Scotland and Wales Immersion, a sliding-scale farmshare and Growing Communities’ Horticulture specific grains grown across the country, MIXED FARM
ST ALDATES CHURCH compares with that in France, Hungary delivery programme, and reparations work, Campaign has a vision involving massively arable fields are becoming increasingly Speakers: Spencer Christy, Lauriston
TOWARDS A PEOPLE’S LAND and Romania. Soul Fire Farm is part of an international scaling-up UK organic horticulture homogenised in favour of supposedly Farm
POLICY We’re part of an EU Erasmus-funded network of farmers working to increase production and creating supply systems high-performing modern breeds. The Andre Kleinjans, Lauriston Farm
Join members of the Land Justice project whose members are Terre de farmland stewardship by people of colour, for every city in the country based on Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Monique Kleinjans, Lauriston Farm
Network for a participatory workshop Liens; TNI; ECVC; Urgenci; IFOAM EU; restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, the “Food Zones” model. This session will Programme is working to support a diverse Lauriston Farm is a 210-acre community-
about land rights past and present in the RFT. The project has been called the “first and end food apartheid. Leah will talk explore progress in projecting how far and resilient seed system and will chair this owned farm on the Blackwater Estuary,
UK, and how this affects our food system. collaboration between all key European about this growing global movement and such a model could go towards meeting session around the question “How can we just outside Goldhanger in Essex. The farm
We’ll be updating people about and organisations on land for agroecology”. how ORFC delegates can contribute and UK demand and outline existing efforts to support the growing of genetically-diverse is biodynamic and is managed in a holistic,
consulting around our work on a People’s help build a food system based on justice, train, equip and establish a new generation grains by supporting diversity at every ecological and ethical way to produce
Land Policy, which is bringing together BARRISTERS ROOM dignity and abundance for all members of of growers. level of the grain supply chain?” Panellists beef, lamb and a variety of vegetables
land workers, consumers, tenants, farmers DROP IN SESSION: AN our community. will represent diverse elements of the using small raised beds. This traditional
and everyone else affected by our highly- INTRODUCTION TO SHUMEI COUNCIL CHAMBER grain chain from seed to plate. market garden method was revived and
uneven patterns of land ownership, to start NATURAL AGRICULTURE ASSEMBLY ROOM PRACTICAL WAYS TO ACHIEVE improved by world renowned farmer and
writing the policies and legislation we need Speakers: Alice Cunningham, Shumei FIXING THE BENEFITS OF PULSES ZERO CARBON IN THE UK COURT ROOM author, J.M. Fortier. For this talk, we
to bring about change. International IN CROP ROTATIONS Speakers: Tim Benton, Chatham WOODLAND AND will be hearing from the three farmers/
Ben Raskin, Soil Association Speakers: George Young, Fobbing Farms House and IPCC (The Intergovernmental AGROFORESTRY: OFFERING NEW gardeners who look after Lauriston and
UPSTAIRS @ ST ALDATES TAVERN Shumei Natural Agriculture is a way of Christine Watson, Scotland’s Rural Panel on Climate Change) BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR find out how they used a two-wheeled
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR JUST farming based on a deep respect and College (SRUC) Caroline Lucas MP, Green Party FARMERS tractor, hand tools and a tight planting
EQUITABLE, ECOLOGICAL UK regard for nature. It looks to cultivate Katie Bliss, Agricology Caterina Brandmayr, Green Alliance UK Speakers: Harriet Bell, Dartington Hall scheme, to grow high-yielding and
FOOD AND FARMING wholesome food with pure seeds without Chair: Josiah Meldrum, Hodmedod’s Phil Jarvis, NFU Environment Forum Charles Tebbutt, Food & Forest profitable crops on a small piece of land.
Speakers: Jane Powell, Economist the use of any fertilizer, chemicals or Pulses have historically formed a key part Martin Lines, Nature Friendly Farming Clive Thomas, Soil Association We will also hear more about the social
Helena Paul, EcoNexus additives. It is more than an approach of crop rotations. They deliver a large Network (NFFN) Jeremy Smith, Savills farming aspect of their work.
Ricarda Steinbrecher, EcoNexus to agriculture, it is a way of living in range of beneficial agroecosystem services Chair: Richard Benwell, Wildlife and Chair: Nick Rau, Friends of the Earth
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CONFERENCE ROOM Speakers: Vicky Robinson, Natural 120,000 family businesses are expected beginning to show to what enormous best health management practices. This status or background. However policy
HEMP: A THREAD OF HOPE England to close or transfer ownership in the extent insect migration is affecting participatory session will feature a panel of makers often see agriculture, food and
Speakers: Joe McGahan, Hempen Abby Rose, Vidacycle next three years. There is a gap between agriculture continent-wide, and how farmers who are passionate about farming health as distinct areas. In this session we
Patrick Gillett, Save UK CBD Nick Rowsell, John Rowsell Ltd, family farms and the value they bring to absolutely vital it is that we protect these for health and seek to identify pivotal explore how a food strategy for the UK
Catherine Wilson, European Industrial Alice Midmer, LEAF (Linking food systems and meeting local people’s most remarkable of creatures. health management practices. could provide pathways towards improved
Hemp Association / British Hemp Environment and Farming) needs, especially in relation to household local food systems and to access the
Association Chair: Caroline Drummond, LEAF food insecurity as experienced by ST ALDATES ROOM GREEN ROOM healthy, affordable food for all.
Hemp is a wonder crop that offers many Payment by results and sustainability people forced to use food banks. LUNCHTIME DROP-IN: WORKSHOP: PERSONAL
agronomic, economic and ecological metrics to measure and demonstrate This session will unpack challenges HARVESTING IDEAS FOR FARMER- RESILIENCE ASSEMBLY ROOM
benefits, holding the potential to how farmers deliver public goods, needs facing family businesses, hear from a LED INNOVATION (Max. 30 people. Please book your place CLIMATE CHANGE AND UK
transform our farms and society at large. to be practical, meaningful, realistic pioneer in democratic land ownership, Session Lead: Liz Bowles, Soil Association on the sign-up sheet, which will be on HORTICULTURE: WHAT IS TO
This session will describe the opportunity and achievable. Building on existing explore meaningful ‘exits’ and creative Peer-to-peer learning is key to making the concertina boards in the Main Hall; COME AND HOW TO BUILD
to harvest seed, leaf and straw in order to data collection sets and demonstrating succession approaches for family farms, agroecology a reality. Join us for an although there may be further spaces RESILIENCE
create a huge range of valuable natural impact are key requirements. LEAF has and discuss how this contributes to land interactive session to crowdsource ideas available at the door.) Speaker: Rosemary Collier, University of
products. These include therapeutic significant experience in this area, working reform. The session will also gather ideas for agricultural research with farmers Whether we are undertaking activism, Warwick
essential oil, omega-rich seed oil, with farmers to ascertain what good looks for tools to enable simple transfer of setting the priorities. We’ll have farmers business or any other project, looking after Chair: Adam Keeves, Organic Growers
complete protein powder, carbon- like, what and how appropriate measures farms to democratically-owned ventures fresh out of their field labs to soundboard ourselves often takes a backseat. But none Alliance
negative housing, super strong textiles, can be used, and engaging farmers. This that can improve the role of farms in ideas with, and a smattering of researchers of us are immune to burning out. We all Climate change has already begun to
composite materials and much more. session will highlight effective approaches food security. to amplify the learning. This session will be instinctively know that burnout is ‘bad’, make small changes to UK horticulture.
After outlining its fantastic potential, from LEAF and others to monitor and led by Innovative Farmers with Agricology and resilience is ‘good’, but without space This session will present experiences from
the session will explore the practical and manage biodiversity outcomes. The LONG ROOM and the PFLA on hand to broaden the to understand the dynamics involved they UK growers and then model examples of
legislative barriers that currently limit the session will identify some of the challenges NETWORKING SESSION: conversation. remain abstract concepts which are hard the changes to come, with specific detail
wider application of hemp, and collectively and barriers and provide practical solutions PRACTICAL WAYS TO ACHIEVE to build into our daily (and busy) lives. on insects. The session will aim to highlight
devise strategies for extending the positive to successfully working together to deliver NET ZERO UPSTAIRS @ ST ALDATES TAVERN This practical workshop will explore the the issues growers should pay attention
influence of this miraculous plant. change. In this networking session, which follows Power, Privilege and symptoms and risks of burnout, as well as to, but importantly present techniques
on from a panel debate in the Council Bio-Diversity how to avoid contributing to it in yourself to build resilience in organic systems. A
13.30 – 14.15 OLD LIBRARY Chamber, farmers are invited to take Speaker: Ian Solomon-Kawall, and others, working through theory and follow-on session to this talk will be held in
(45 MINUTE LUNCHTIME IMPROVING FARM PRODUCTIVITY part in group discussions, tailored to May Project Gardens tools to help build resilience into our lives the St Aldates Room.
SESSIONS) WHILE LOOKING AFTER THE their specific farm context, about Power, Privilege + Bio Diversity draws and in our groups.
ENVIRONMENT practical action they can take on their upon the work of May Project Gardens, The workshop will be led by Peter Lefort, OLD LIBRARY
MAIN HALL Speakers: Tim Mordan, DEFRA farm right now to tackle emissions and an award winning community project, a Trustee of the Transition Network, LEAN, MEAN GROWING MACHINE
LUNCHTIME TALK: 2019: The Chair: Jyoti Fernandes, Landworkers’ store carbon. Discussions will be broken specialising in connecting people to who has run workshops on resilience for Speaker: Ashley Wheeler, Trill Farm
Year Agroecology Went Alliance down into arable, livestock, horticulture nature and plant based food for personal, activists, volunteers and employees for Ben Hartman, Clay Bottom Farm
Worldwide We have some brilliant farmers and and mixed farming, and will be facilitated social and economic transformation. many years. Chair: Ellen Rignell, Trill Farm
Last year two global reports backed by growers in this country who provide us by representatives from Wildlife and During this talk you’ll get to an insight A commitment to food sovereignty is at
the world’s governments laid out what the with a wide range of great food – from Countryside Link and the Nature- into our permaculture-designed 14.30-15.30 the core of organic and agroecological
future of farming should look like, and in small family farms through to large Friendly Farming Network. Attendees community garden in South London. food production. Recently there has
the process almost every single country in agri-businesses. But when we compare should leave the session with some clear The interactive talk explores how food MAIN HALL been a drive towards greater productivity
the world advocated for food production our productivity to some other countries actions they can implement on their growing and creativity is used to make the A FOOD STRATEGY FOR THE and efficiency in small-scale agriculture,
and land management methods most around the world we know we can do a lot farms. environmental and Vegan plant movement UK: LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS particularly at market garden scale. As we
closely aligned with agroecology. better in some areas. The big challenge more inclusive. AND ACCESS TO HEALTHY, strive to get more out of the land we farm,
The reports, from IPBES is how can we be more productive and COURT ROOM AFFORDABLE FOOD FOR ALL how do we ensure that we stay rooted
(Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity competitive while, at the same time, HOW INSECTS MIGRATE AND CONFERENCE ROOM Speaker: Henry Dimbleby DEFRA in principles of food sovereignty and
and Ecosystem Services) and the IPCC enhancing the environment? Tim INFLUENCE SOIL HEALTH THE NATURE AND NUANCE OF Dee Woods, Granville Community ecological farming? These are questions
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Mordan will talk about some of these big ACROSS CONTINENTS FARMING FOR HEALTH Kitchen familiar to organic and agroecological
Change), examined how the world challenges, what has been done so far and Speaker: Will Hawkes, University of Speakers: Sally Woods Victoria Williams, Food Matters growers the world over, and this session is
currently manages its land and the burden seek thoughts and ideas for future action. Exeter Pammy Riggs, Providence Farm Jyoti Fernandes, Landworkers’ Alliance an opportunity to explore this as we hear
of production placed on it. They looked at Insects are seemingly everywhere. Mark Measures, Agricultural Consultant Chair: Vicki Hird, Sustain from two experienced growers running
what this does to hasten degradation and COUNCIL CHAMBER Quietly pollinating, controlling pests, Ian Tolhurst, Tolhurst Organic The UK has unacceptable levels of food successful horticultural businesses. Hosted
biodiversity loss, and accelerate climate FARM SUCCESSION, FAMILY decomposing waste and many more Chair: Lawrence Woodward, Whole insecurity and dietary related ill health. by Landworkers’ Alliance and Organic
change impacts. BUSINESS AND DEMOCRATIC freely-provided services that we all Health Agriculture Despite being the 6th largest economy in Growers Alliance.
While these reports dominated the OWNERSHIP rely on for our own continued survival. Despite the buzzwords of “health and the world, over 8.4 million people living in
media, the coverage didn’t show the full Speakers: Tom Carman, Real Farming However, they have another side to harmony”, very few farmers and growers UK households report having insufficient COUNCIL CHAMBER
story. This is your chance to get past the Trust / Ethex their lives: a great number of insects farm for health as a priority goal. In fact, food and 13% of healthcare costs are from TRANSFORMING LAND
headlines. Jonny Gordon-Farleigh, Stir to Action (from butterflies to flies, dragonflies to health is an elusive quality – difficult to pin diet-related ill health. Farmers and food OWNERSHIP AND LAND
Sebastian Parsons, Stockwood beetles) are hugely migratory, travelling down or describe let alone manage – but system activists argue that local food STEWARDSHIP MODELS FOR THE
ASSEMBLY ROOM Community Benefit Society thousands of kilometres a year. Recent on some farms it smacks you in the face. systems play a significant role in improving FUTURE
PRACTICAL PROGRESS TOWARDS Chair: Anita McNaught, Journalist/ research from the University of Exeter Whole Health Agriculture has been set up access to healthy, affordable food for Speakers: Miriam Rose, Hardwick Estate
PUBLIC GOODS Farmer (with other European universities) is to capture, understand and disseminate everyone, regardless of their income, Corin Stuart, Windy Ridge Estate
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Ninian Stuart, Falkland Estate COURT ROOM Josie Cohen, Pesticide Action Network ECONOMY FIT FOR PURPOSE? a successful workshop was run near soak up carbon and produce water from
Megan MacInnes, Scottish Land LEARNING FROM REGIONALWERT UK Speakers: Tony Greenham, South West Bristol building skills for trainers. It was deep underground. Alfredo’s approach
Commission IN GERMANY: FINANCING Sandra Bell, Friends of the Earth Mutual so popular, this ORFC ‘taster’ session is backed up by recent studies that show
Chair: Gemma Adams, Forum for the LOCALISED FOOD SYSTEMS Louise Payton, Soil Association Caroline Lucas MP, Green Party is being offered along similar lines. that interspersing trees, animals and crops
Future Speakers: Christian Hiß, Regionalwert AG Steph Morren, RSPB Colin Mayer, Oxford University Interactive and fun, the session is for any could be one of our best defences against
How might landowners take a radically Joy Carey Chair: Martin Lines, Nature Friendly Colin Tudge, Real Farming Trust growers and trainers who want to improve climate change. Come and hear about the
different approach to enable equitable Katrin Hochberg, COSMOS Farming Network (NFFN) Chair: Ian Rappel their teaching style. Using ‘reverse extraordinary benefits of silvopasture as
and responsible stewardship of land Could the Regionalwert AG model offer Despite efforts, UK pesticide use is on If we are truly to “feed the world” without brainstorming’ to build on participants’ well as Alfredo’s communal-style vision
to meet today’s challenges and those independent and strategic financing the rise. What is needed to really reverse wrecking the biosphere then we need to own innate knowledge, the session will for the land that has been in his family for
of the future? How can ownership of solutions for UK urban, local and this? Precision farming or a shift to farm within the guidelines of agroecology give you insights into key principles of generations.
and responsibility for land be shared regional supply networks? This session agroecology? Payments for proper IPM? (treating farms as ecosystems) and food adult education. It will include planning,
via participatory governance models? will introduce and explore Regionalwert A new independent extension/advisory sovereignty (every society should have orientation, delegation skills, feedback ASSEMBLY ROOM
Is a return to the commons possible AG - a German network of citizen service? Pesticide taxes? Supermarket control over its own food supply) -- which skills, and key practices based on evidence REAL FARMING SOLUTIONS TO
or even desirable? Three landowners shareholder companies with the purpose interventions? More farmer-led research? is what is meant by “Real Farming”. But of how people learn best. REDUCING ANTIBIOTIC USE
from Scotland and England share their of strategically investing in or setting up It’s up to you to tell us. This session will can we achieve this within the framework Speakers: Claire Howlett, Wicton Farm
progressive approaches to changing (organic) businesses within a local trading look to identify barriers to reducing of the neoliberal economy – which BARRISTERS ROOM Ed Bailey, The George Farm Vets
land ownership and its dynamics and the network; from farming, processing, pesticide use, particularly in the farming requires all producers of all kinds to DROP IN SESSION: FARMERS Shona Phillips, Sparsholt College
challenges they face, while Scottish Land catering, and retail to services such as sector, and what would be required to compete for profit and market share REBELLION (XR) Chair: Kate Still, Soil Association
Commissioner Megan MacInnes explores machinery hire and research. Capital is overcome these barriers. It will be run as a within an increasingly global market? If Farmers Rebellion is a diverse group of Though UK farms have reduced their
the connections between human rights raised through equity offerings to local workshop so all attendees can participate not --- what do we need instead? And farmers and growers who have come use of antibiotics by 40 percent in the
and land reform and what governance citizens. Investments, enabling local and give their views. The outputs of this how do we get from where we are to together as part of Extinction Rebellion past five years, resistance to antibiotics
models for the future might look like. processing, non-family farm succession, session will feed into a project run by where we need to be? to press the government to put in place continues to rise – a threat to the health
independent retail capacity, farm or Pesticide Action Network, Friends of the policies that enable farming to address and of both livestock and people. This session
LONG ROOM distribution start-ups, and catering - all Earth, Soil Association and RSPB, which CONFERENCE ROOM mitigate the impacts of climate change features a farmer who makes no use
GEARING UP FOR AGROECOLOGY: are managed by the network’s local is looking to engage with a wide-ranging FARMING SO WHITE: LAND and ecological breakdown. The discourse of antibiotics at all; a “technical clinic”
TRANSFORMING PUBLICLY governance body. group of civil society organisations in order OWNERSHIP, RACE AND RACISM around farming and climate change is too led by a vet who will discuss preventive
FUNDED RESEARCH AND to form a collaboration working together IN BRITAIN often underpinned by blame, criticism and husbandry; and reports from a number
INNOVATION FOR THE PUBLIC ST ALDATES ROOM to reduce pesticide-related harms. Speakers: Josina Calliste, Land In Our argument when we urgently need to be of practical projects for better targeting
GOOD? CREATING A VIABLE FUTURE WITH Names (LION) coming together and finding ways forward of treatment, alternative treatments,
Speakers: Helena Paul, EcoNexus MARGINAL GRAZING CHRISTOPHER ROOM Ọlá Ayòrindé, Shared Assets / Land in through collaboration and communication. and ways to engage with farmers through
Nina Moeller, Centre for Agroecology, Speakers: John Atkinson, MAKING YOUR FOOD ENTERPRISE Our Names (LION) The expertise and knowledge is already peer-to-peer learning.
Water and Re silience (CAWR), Coventry Nibthwaite Grange Farm MORE EFFICIENT Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm out there. We know how to transition
University Maria Benjamin, Dodgson Wood Farm Speakers: Lynne Davis, Dean Forest Food A workshop space for exploring why land to systems that work with nature, are OLD LIBRARY
Adam Payne, Landworkers’ Alliance Julia Aglionby, Foundation for Common Hub ownership and farming are still completely highly productive and can draw down OVERCOMING PLANNING
(LWA) Land (FCL) Mark Harrison, Stroud Community dominated by white people in the UK; atmospheric carbon - ways of farming BARRIERS
Patrick Mulvany, Food Ethics Council Ruth Davis, RSPB Agriculture and what narratives and strategies are that can provide answers at a time when Speakers: Rebecca
Join us to explore how to transform Chair: Christopher Price, Rare Breeds Simon Platten, Tamar Grow Local needed to challenge and change this. Co- we really need them. Come and join us Laughton, Landworkers’
publicly-funded research for agroecology Survival Trust (RBST) Alice Guillaume, Cambridge Food Hub hosted by Land In Our Names and Shared to hear more or to join the rebellion to Alliance / Growing Communities
and help broaden the coalition – Livestock farmers are facing significant Rupert Dunn, Torth Y Tir Assets, this session will explore barriers demand government action NOW. Dan Newbury, Slight Hill Farm
initiated at ORFC 2019 – pressing for challenges - the loss of CAP payments, Chair: Nick Weir, Open Food Network to farming for people of colour in Britain Ruth Munns, Ecological Land Cooperative
scientific, technical and socio-economic the threat from imports produced to Whether you run a farm, a CSA, a food and how to overcome them; consider 16.00-17.00 (ELC)
research and innovation to prioritise the lower standards, and the general decline hub or a local enterprise, making a food historical relationships to land for people Chris Vernon, One Planet Council
transformation towards a biodiverse, in meat-eating. In many cases these business run smoothly is a constant of colour through the lens of empire and MAIN HALL Small-scale farmers and growers face
food sovereignty-based, agroecological farmers could improve their position challenge. In this session, we will be colonialism; and more. THE FARM THAT GROWS WATER: significant planning barriers when
food system. Now, with many recent by adopting different business models, talking to six people from six different COMBINING ANIMALS AND TREES establishing rural businesses, which lead to
reports and heightened awareness based on making the best use of all the UK businesses to find out how they have GREEN ROOM TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE huge financial and emotional costs. These
about the climate/ecosystem/nutrition opportunities the farm offers, including done everything from managing sales to WORKSHOP: HOW TO BE Speakers: Alfredo Cunhal range from struggles to gain permission
crises, we need to claim our definition of its location, the landscape, the quality harvesting to order, to processing and BRILLIANT AT HORTICULTURAL Sendim, Herdade do Freixo do Meio for agricultural workers’ dwellings, to
agroecology as the basis for a research of the grazing and the range of products packing deliveries. We will talk to them TRAINING (FOR GROWERS AND Chair: John Vidal, Journalist enable them to live on their farm, to
agenda fit for real food and farming, that can be obtained from the animals about the IT tools and online systems TRAINERS) A former agricultural scientist, Alfredo having to compete with the elevated
through a collective citizen/farmer-led concerned. This session will encourage they have used such as the Open Food (Max. 30 people. Please book your place Cunhal practices the ancient art of prices of farm buildings brought about by
approach. Let’s identify which (mainly livestock grazers in marginal areas to think Network to tackle these issues. The on the sign-up sheet, which will be on silvopasture, combining livestock with Class Q Permitted Development Rights,
policy) levers to pull; pathways to explore; differently about their businesses. session will then break into small groups, the concertina boards in the Main Hall; productive trees and shrubs on his farm which allow a landowner to convert barns
drivers to enhance; hurdles to dismantle; each led by a presenter, so participants although there may be further spaces Herdade do Freixo do Meio in Southern into up to three market dwellings. This
actors to involve; and priority actions to ST ALDATES CHURCH can apply the learning to their own available at the door.) Portugal. This system which he calls session will look at barriers from a farmer’s
pursue. HOW DO WE REALLY REDUCE enterprises. Session run by; Angela Raffle and Rita “the new montado”, not only produces perspective, and some solutions to these
PESTICIDES? CROWD-SOURCING Oldenbourg a great variety of food – 600 different challenges, both in terms of practical
IS THE ANSWER UPSTAIRS @ ST ALDATES TAVERN In response to local grower trainers saying products – but can withstand long actions and proposals for policy change.
Speakers: Peter Lundgren IS THE PRESENT NEOLIBERAL they wanted to build their confidence, periods of drought; build soil; resist fires;
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COUNCIL CHAMBER COURT ROOM of experts from across the food and process, especially in farming where we ENTREPRENEURSHIP ‘Loans for Enlightened Agriculture
WHAT WILL POST-BREXIT TRADE WAKE UP TO GENOME EDITING: IS farming system as they answer questions are experiencing so much economic, Speakers: Jonty Brunyee, FarmED Programme’ (LEAP) which is funded
DEALS MEAN FOR OUR FARMERS, IT A THREAT OR AN OPPORTUNITY from a panel of young people. political and social change. Managing Ian Wilkinson, Cotswold by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation,
ENVIRONMENT, WELFARE AND Speakers: Michael Antoniou, Kings a farm business is challenging enough Seeds / FarmED CIVA, the A Team Foundation, Power
FOOD STANDARDS? College London ST CHRISTOPHER ROOM but trying to keep it sustainable and David Bozward, Royal Agricultural to Change and the Halleria Trust. LEAP
Speakers: Josie Cohen, Pesticide Action Lawrence Woodward, Beyond GM SECURING LAND FOR THE profitable in the face of adversity can University (RAU) provides affordable unsecured loans
Network UK Claire Robinson, GM Watch COMMON GOOD have a negative impact on the wellbeing Emma Mills, The Kitchen Garden People of £25,000 to £100,000 side-by-
Jean Blaycock, Global Justice Now Chair: Pat Thomas, Beyond GM Speakers: Andy Beer, National Trust of farmers and their families. This session James Ogders, Stream Farm side with a grant and a structured and
Nick Palmer, Compassion in World Genome editing is a profoundly David Riddle, Soil Association Land Trust will provide useful tips and guidance about Two linked sessions will offer inspiration tailored mentoring programme. Come
Farming (CIWF) transformative technology. It is being Alice Favre, Chettle Estate how farmers can build their own personal and insight into the business challenges with your questions, meet the people
Nick von Westenholz, National Farmers‘ pushed by the research establishment, James Shorten, Geo and business resilience, thus helping them and opportunities facing start-up and and organisations involved, and hear
Union (NFU) government, media and industry as Chair: Tom Curtis, 3Keel / Soil to embrace the changes that lie ahead - enterprising farmers and growers. It from businesses that have recently
Chair: Kath Dalmeny, Sustain the smart way to achieve sustainability. Association Land Trust whatever they may be. will offer practical advice and help secured funding.
When/if the UK is an ‘independent’ The agroecological/organic movement We need land to provide its vital functions This session will run until 17.15. foster sustainable and regenerative
trading nation after Brexit, will UK has been complacent and myopic in forever - to provide good food; capture, rural entrepreneurship in those who 17.30 – 20.00
farmers have to compete with lower- response to claims that genome editing regulate and filter our water supplies; GREEN ROOM attend. Feel free to attend either one or
quality imports using banned pesticides, is compatible with their principles. This store carbon; sustain the living systems SMALL-SCALE GRAIN both of the sessions. CHRISTOPHER ROOM
hormones, rainforest-depleting soya feed, technology will affect every aspect of around us; and give us places to live in a PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING: Immersive experience; Peas
GM, antibiotics and poor animal welfare? production, but farmers and growers way that is healthy for body and mind. THE HOW TO TOOLKIT Session 1: Introduction and Panel Session on Earth
A new trade bill was announced in the are either unaware of it or ignoring it. Yet the mechanisms in place to create a Speakers: Charlotte Oliver, Landmatters (1 hour) With Artist, Maya Chowdhry
Queen’s Speech but there is as yet no sign This session will cover where we are sustainable landscape (grants, subsidies, Holly Tiffen, Transition Town Totnes In this first session we consider the Using the humble pea as a symbol of our
of a UK trade mandate, nor exactly how with current opinions; potential health market signals, regulations) are often Transition Town Totnes have produced advantages of diversification e.g. relationship to food, along with a portion
our elected representatives in parliament and environmental impacts; and how short-term. And land tenure is rarely a free interactive toolkit to help others additional income, job creation, risk of poetry and a pair of gardening gloves,
would have a say over our food, farming regulation – or lack of it – will impact. permanent. Join us to discuss the ways in set up small-scale grain projects and reduction and enhanced family cohesion. Peas on Earth gently augments our
and fishing standards in future deals. Trade which we can - and should - put land on a learn from their experiences along the We will look at how new enterprises can reality to allow us to connect our thirst,
talks could be accelerated and signed ST ALDATES ROOM more permanent footing for the future. way. Hear from the founders of Grown be regenerative and what opportunities hunger and imagination to the politics of
within months. This session with trade and FOLLOW-ON SESSION: CLIMATE in Totnes about some of the things to exist for new entrants. eating, growing and sustaining ourselves.
issue experts and campaigners will help us CHANGE PREP SESSION UPSTAIRS @ ST ALDATES TAVERN consider when setting up small-scale In this tabletop experience the audience
prepare. Following on from the main talk in the THE HERDSMAN: A grain processing facilities and about the Session 2: Business Planning Workshop is immersed in a poetic soundscape
Assembly Room, this informal session PERFORMANCE followed by opportunities and pitfalls that you may (45 minutes) taking them on a journey through
LONG ROOM will continue the conversation around BEING A RESILIENT FARMER IN encounter along the way. The workshop Following on from the previous earth, air, fire and water; using fate to
FARMER-LED INNOVATION AND ‘Climate change and UK Horticulture: TIMES OF CHANGE will demonstrate how to use the toolkit introductory session this session will determine their worldly actions. Will
RESEARCH FOR AGROECOLOGY What is to come and how to build On a farm where the land is alive, and and touch on a range of experiences; from help you to develop your new business they need more than luck to be able to
Speakers: Fred Price, Gothelney Farm resilience’. This will provide an opportunity the animals peaceful, the people too are setting up and financing an enterprise, and diversification ideas. This applied sustain themselves in this moment and
Becca Stevenson, Five Acre Community to ask more questions, to share what happy. Depression is not simply a problem to processing grains, to marketing your workshop will explain how and enable beyond?
Farm people are doing in practice and to work that resides within an individual, but a products. you to write a quick yet effective one- There will be four workshops, each
Rupert Dunn, Torth Y Tir together to come up with solutions to symptom of environ(mental) health, an sided business plan using the business lasting half an hour and accommodating
Chair: Chris Maughan, Centre for make us all more climate-ready. indicator that we are on the wrong path. BARRISTERS ROOM model canvas. What are your USPs and 12 people.
Agroecology, Water and Resilience Storyteller, Georgia Wingfield-Hayes, ROUNDTABLE: LGBTQIA + LWA value proposition? What is your market?
(CAWR), Coventry University ST ALDATES CHURCH tells the true story of Charles Ellet The Landworkers’ Alliance LGBTQIA+ Have you identified your key costs and Please book your time slot on the sign-
Agroecology is knowledge intensive, ANSWERING TO THE NEXT now happily herdsman of the Ethical group will host a discussion by and for income streams? Who will you need to up sheet, which will be on the concertina
not input intensive, but agricultural GENERATION: A YOUNG PEOPLE’S Dairy, once herdsman on a 1500 cow LGBTQIA+ landworkers and allies. partner with? Participants will develop boards in the Main Hall; although there
development over the last century has ASSEMBLY ON THE NATIONAL intensive dairy farm where his mental This interactive session aims to create their ideas in the session and will be may be further spaces available at the
steadily undermined farmer knowledges FOOD STRATEGY FOR ENGLAND health crashed. Through Charles’s story a welcoming space in which to share invited to share their thoughts with door.
by creating technological ‘lock-ins’ and Speakers: Henry Dimbleby and we see what cheap food is doing to the personal experiences, successes and others in the room.
‘top down’ research models. This panel other experts will answer questions land, animals and people involved in its challenges that we face in our land-based
will gather perspectives from those who from young people, aged 15 to 25. production. Charles is part of the panel in work. LGBTQIA+ folks hope to build a 17.30 – 18.30
are resisting this trend by ‘hacking’ the Chair: Chloe Donovan the following session on resilience. sense of solidarity and support for each
current system for a more equitable and We all believe there is an urgent need other and to begin building a base from UPSTAIRS @ ST ALDATES TAVERN
(bio)diverse food system. This includes to transform current food and farming BEING A RESILIENT FARMER IN which to make LGBTQIA+ folks more TAKING THE LEAP: FUNDING
networks of farmers doing trials on their systems; to ensure future generations TIMES OF CHANGE visible within land-based work. Come FOR AGROECOLOGICAL AND
own land, ‘Farm Hacks’ for building tools have access to good food and enjoy good Speakers: Sam Conway, The Farming listen in and please feel welcome to bring COMMUNITY FOOD BUSINESSES
and skills to maximise farmer autonomy, health throughout their lives; but what Community Network your own story to share if you fancy. Speakers: Robert Fraser, Real Farming
and CSAs involving members in field- do young people think? What changes Adrian Cullis, Agricultural Christian Trust
based research. The aim of the session do they want to see and what questions Fellowship 16.00 – 18.00 Jamie Hartzell, Real Farming Trust
will be to get a clearer sense of who is would they put to the people shaping their Charles Ellett, The Ethical Dairy Clare Horrell, Real Farming Trust
currently doing this work but also what future? This is our chance to find out. Join Russ Carrington, Pasture-Fed Livestock CONFERENCE ROOM Reuben Chester, Locavore
support is needed to out-scale existing Henry Dimbleby – leader of the National Association EXPLORING RURAL ENTERPRISE Need finance? Then come and find out
efforts. Food Strategy for England – and a panel Planning for the future can be a daunting AND REGENERATIVE more about the Real Farming Trust’s
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