Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved.

For this month, we talk to Will Heygate, who is a sheep and arable farmer from Northamptonshire. He runs a similar system to Sarah and will share their experiences through the recently funded Anglian Water cluster group focusing on biological approaches. 

LINKS: 

BHAG = big hairy audacious goals

We spoke about Jade's recent webinar - https://youtu.be/Y-v_VfYYOms?si=vVAnPSuiDlBOOyKB

https://www.regenben.com/

https://indigro.co.uk/agronomists-the-team/

See https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more details of the farmers and the project.

Thanks to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for their contribution to the BTC project.

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. 

We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. The first one is with Sarah Bell, one of the farmers. She is based in Rutland and runs a mixed farm with her family.

See https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more details of the farmers and the project.

Thanks to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for their contribution to the BTC project.

Carbon Calling is stepping off the stage and back into the fields, launching a new campaign to support three forward-thinking farmers with a year of hands-on coaching from our team and trusted partners.

Be The Change is a year long coaching programme using the Carbon Calling network of professional partners to give you support and direction for a clearer future for your farm.

We’re looking to recruit three farms across the North and Midlands who are willing to work with us for 12 months, taking a deep dive into their farm, and ultimately host an on-farm event in June 2026.

​We are looking for farms who make most of their income from farming, who are interested in making changes to their system (e.g. reducing inputs, changing breeds, detailed soil tests, encouraging more nature through schemes, getting different people onto their farms) or are confused with where they have got to and need some additional support.

Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more info

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Nicola MacPhail, who is one of the facilitators on the Tuesday at this year's conference. She is wrangling up to 12 tables of chatty people.

We talk to Nic about the session she is planning and the inspiration around it

This is the last one of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. 

This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Ian Robertson, who is one of the speakers on the Thursday at this year's conference. And he loves soil more than anyone we know!

We talk to Ian about the background to his love of soil and helping farmers. Plus what he will cover at the upcoming conference, which will be an interpretation of Nic and Reno's soil results.

This is the third of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. 

This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Daniel Iddon, who is one of the speakers on the Thursday at this year's conference. And he loves fungi more than anyone we know!

We talk to Daniel about the background to his company and his love of wood. Plus what he will cover at the upcoming conference. 

This is the second of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. 

This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Jules Matthews, who is the headliner at this year's conference. And we love her. 

We talk to Jules about her background and her approach with clients. Plus what she will cover at the upcoming conference. 

This is the first of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. 

This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.

Liz Genever and Nic Renison talk through the programme for the upcoming conference on the 24-26 June. 

More details can be found at carboncalling.farm, including the full programme and the link for ticket sales 

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Peter Craven who has recently been appointed Head of Agriculture at Natural England. 

We talk about Peter move from his family farm to working with NIAB and now Natural England. We spent a while discussing his Nuffield studies and the importance of setting up a family charter. See https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/Peter%20Craven%20Nuffield.pdf and https://familycharter.co.uk/. 

Liz and Peter were on Oxford Farming Conference Emerging Leaders Programme together in 2020, and we bumped into one another again at ORFC in January.

This is the third of a series of three podcasts where we talk to people who have changed their "identity" and are now leaders within regenerative and agroecological approaches. 

This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Marian Boswell, who is a landscape architect (https://www.marianboswall.com/) and author. Her newest book - The Kindest Garden - has been recently published. 

She was on the CREATE UK course with Liz and came to Carbon Calling in 2024, and we love her. We talk about beavers and energy work!!!

This is the second of a series of three podcasts where we talk to people who have changed their "identity" and are now leaders within regenerative and agroecological approaches. 

This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.