Farm Gate

First Milk has released a 'white paper' for regenerative dairy. The report celebrates what the co-operative dairy has achieved so far, while making a strong case for Phase 2 of their regen dairy programme - moving from measuring inputs to assessing outcomes: actual soil carbon, actual numbers of birds and insects, actual river quality...

To find out more, ffinlo Costain is joined by Lee Truelove, Director of Regenerative Farming & Agriculture at First Milk, and Leona McDonald, their Director of Regenerative Partnerships.

Today we're lying down on our beach towels to tuck into a good summer read.

ffinlo Costain is joined by three brilliant authors from the 5m and Unbreaking stables, to find out why their books should be stacked among the sea shells and read between the rock pools.

• Benedikt Bösel has written Food and Farm Revolution - he's is an agricultural economist and the founder of Gut&Bösel, a regenerative farm located near Berlin.
• Dr Lucy Williamson is a registered nutritionist and former vet and her book is called Soil to Gut.
• And Tim Parton's Intelligent Farming invites us to join him on the agroecological journey that he's been on since 2009.

Click here to find the books on 5m's website - https://5mbooks.com/

ffinlo Costain speaks to Professor Tim Lang about his report for the National Preparedness Commission - Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap.

Tim Lang is Emeritus Professor of Food Policy at City St George's, University of London.

Over a long career he's served as a consultant to the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the UN Environment Programme.

He's also the author and co-author of several books, most recently, Feeding Britain: Our food problems and how to fix them.

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?