ffinlo Costain learns about fertility-building, rotations, and system design for vegetables from Andy Dibben (Abbey Home Farm), Christine Watson (SRUC), and David Newman (Bucksum Market Garden).

Farmer-led innovation, and the research that backs it up.

Farm Gate’s ffinlo Costain is joined by Thomas Slattery (ADOPT Support Hub), Matt Smee (Agricology) and Katherine Lewis (Ag-Impact).

They discuss what it takes to put farmers at the heart of on-farm trials - the role that agricultural research and good knowledge sharing play - and how all of it connects to regenerative farming and broader agroecology.

What is resilience - and how can landscape-scale collaboration help to deliver it?

ffinlo Costain meets Alex Robinson (Moor Wood Farm and Zora Ecosystems), Jenny Phelps (FWAG), and Alex Donnelly (Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Wildlife Trusts) to discuss the role of farm clusters in helping to restore nature's infrastructure.

We need a new generation of inspirational regen leaders, landscape transformers, communication stars, and R&D wizards. Farming professions test every part of the human being, and offer remarkable soul-enhancing rewards.

So why are parents and schools still pushing young people toward AI-vulnerable careers in medicine and law, and into burning hot cities and suffocating wards and offices?

ffinlo Costain talks to Jonty Brunyee (Farmer and Co-founder, Emergent Generation), Mitch Green (Stockman & Steering Group, Emergent Generation), Sophie Gregory (Organic dairy farmer and Nuffield Scholar), and Lucy Robbins (Farmer, Nosehill Farm).

I talk to ADOPT facilitators, Daniel Kindred (Agronomy Research Circle) and Harriet Scott (Raft Solutions), to find out how good ideas can become great on-farm research projects

This is Day 6 of 10 More Days of Groundswell – a series of conversations, recorded in-the-field at Groundswell.

Day 5 of our 10 More Days of Groundswell series, which continues every day for 10 days.

I talk to Hannah Thorogood (Inkpot Farm) and Jamie Jack (Pasture for Life, Scotland) about how sheep can be a fantastic ecological force for good.

Day 4 of our 10 More Days of Groundswell series, which continues every day for 10 days.

I meet Martin Lines (Nature Friendly Farming Network), Vicki Hird (Wildlife Trusts), Alice Groom (RSPB), and Joe Stanley (GWCT Allerton Project).

I find out what they thought of the Secretary of State's address to the Groundswell Big Top audience - and what needs to happen next with English farm policy?

Day 3 of our 10 More Days of Groundswell series, which continues every day for 10 days.I meet Sally-Ann Spence down in the Groundswell fields as we sift through cowpats and discuss the role of entomology in archeology.

Day 2 of our 10 More Days of Groundswell series, which continues every day for 10 days.

This time:

Sam Beaumont (Gowbarrow Hall Farm) and Helen Browning (Soil Association) discuss the benefits of agroforestry - both as a commercial venture and for on-farm resilience.

This is the first of our impromptu in-the-field programmes, recorded at Groundswell 2026.

🪱 "We've got to tell the truth." That's the ethos behind of the new ⁠Centre for Dynamic Soils⁠ — a new farmer-led research venture co-founded by ⁠Andy Neal⁠, ⁠Andy Gray⁠ and ⁠Mel Bradley MBE⁠, backed by ⁠Yeo Valley Organic⁠, ⁠Wildfarmed⁠ and ⁠Waitrose & Partners⁠.

🎤 I spoke to the two Andys - We discuss soil structure, glyphosate, and why real farms beat university plots for soil science every day of the week.

Find out more here: https://www.centrefordynamicsoils.org/