Adam Henson: Meet your hosts for our Soil Health Workshop in the Cotswolds
Regenerate Outcomes are excited to be bringing together some leading names in regenerative farming for our Soil Health Workshops this summer.
Each Soil Health Workshop will feature two days of practical insights into growing profits and cutting costs by improving soil health.
The workshops will be led by regenerative farming pioneer Dr Allen Williams, alongside Soil Farmer of the Year 2023 Stuart Johnson and soil microbiologist Kyle Richardville.
Our Soil Health Workshop in the Cotswolds will be kindly hosted by Adam Henson and Duncan Andrews at Cotswold Farm Park, Wiltshire, from June 9th to June 10th.
Adam Henson
Adam is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting his own section on BBC’s Countryfile to millions of viewers each Sunday evening.
Adam grew up in the Cotswold Hills as a farmer’s son and succeeded the farm tenancy from his father in 1999.
Adam and his business partner Duncan now jointly run the 650-hectare estate, together with the Cotswold Farm Park, home to over 50 breeding flocks and herds of British rare breed farm animals.
Duncan grew up on the Isles of Scilly before moving to Hampshire, where he started working at the neighbouring farm from the age of 12. This engendered a passion for farming, the environment and working in the great outdoors.
Adam and Duncan’s friendship started whilst studying at Seale-Hayne agricultural college, from where they migrated to Australia and New Zealand to work on a variety of farms. Duncan returned to the UK to work in agricultural banking before taking on a farm tenancy with the Duchy of Cornwall on the island of Bryher in the Isles of Scilly.
Duncan and Adam joined forces to run Bemborough Farm in 1999 which now incorporates arable and livestock enterprises, environmental land management, Cotswold Farm Park rare breeds centre, holiday accommodation, a horse cross country course and seasonal events, in addition to Adam’s television presenting and corporate activities.
They will be joining us for the Soil Health Workshop to discuss the work they have been doing to improve soil health on the farm.
Wiltshire farmer George Hosier
At our Soil Health Workshop in the Cotswolds we will be joined by farmer George Hosier who will discuss his journey towards using regenerative practices and improving soil health.
George farms 625 hectares on Wexcombe Farm, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, with a beef suckler herd and arable crops including wheat, barley, oats, linseed, peas and oilseed rape. He runs the farm alongside his mum Liz, dad Patric, wife Charlotte and son Fred.
Patric, George and Fred
"We started off down the regenerative path to cut costs, but it's now just as much about the resilience of the environment and business resilience as well,” says George.
“Having a resilient business is also the key to having a better quality of life because it gives you the time to do the things which make life better.
“We believe that by improving our soil health we'll improve our resilience to changing weather patterns but also in other ways. A nice, diverse business improves your resilience across the board.”
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