Tales from Five Acre Community Farm

We are British so of course, we need to talk about the weather particularly when it has been so extreme and been effecting farming so much.  

Sorry for any weird noises we are still getting used to the new recorder and how much background it picks up.

This episode we discuss what has been going on over the summer, explain why this episode took so long to come out and tell you all about the Farm Hack Becca went to as well as details of an upcoming event CAWR are running some of you might like to come to.

We talk about ER, transition towns and some of the various events and activities going on in the area as well as our plans to set up a new farm which we need support to achieve. 

Canalside Local Food is another CSA near us who helped us get set up when we first started, so we went to visit them and had a chat with a variety of people there.

We talk with Francis about the various practical research projects which we are running on the farm with CAWR. What they are, what they are trying to achieve and how they are done and well as limitations on the research and where they sit in a wider range of research being done around Europe.

This episode is about who we are as individuals, what makes us tick and a discussion about women in farming. As well as the normal update about what is happening on the farm.

Discussing the Social Impact ToolKit Project with Luke Owen from CAWR ( Coventry University's Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience)  This is a research project we have been working with them on for a couple of years along with other community growing project to find ways to quantify the benefits of projects like ours in ways that can be presented to policy makers and others.

Answering questions that we have been asked and discussing what zero waste is and specifically how we deal with plastic use

This episode we update on what is going on at the farm and interview Jo who is a founding member of the the farm and has been active in helping to run it from the start.

All about soil health, green manures and other methods to improve your soil