Upcoming events.
Natural Flood Management and River Restoration Event
Discover how Natural Flood Management and River Restoration can deliver multiple benefits, reducing flood risk, securing water resources, improving water quality, enhancing riparian habitats, and even generating income for providing these vital services.
Join us for an insightful visit to Mill Green Farm’s attenuation feature in Stonham Aspal.
Pete Roberts, Water Engineer, will guide us on a tour of the attenuation feature he successfully project-managed at Mill Green Farm.
Andy Went, Essex and Suffolk Rivers Trust, will share the latest updates on the River Restoration Plan for the Deben.
Mariah Ballam will outline how collaborative action across the Deben catchment can open the door to Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship Agreements for Water Body Options.
The event will conclude with refreshments at the Hog and Hen Farm Café, a chance to network and continue the conversation.
Fast-track to Soil Health
Please join us for our July event led by farmer Tim Parton.
Tim Parton has a vast tool kit for improving soil health and getting soil biology working to do the jobs we otherwise need chemistry for.
Using the tools that he will share with us, he has brought his 300 hectare farm’s input bill down by over £60k!
Come and hear about his low cost solutions including microbe brewing, tea seed washes, gypsum application, victorian compost, low disturbance lifting and many more + the advantages of having a working soil.
The event will feature:
Demonstration of microbe brewing
Demonstration of an Aerworx Roller for shattering soil compaction by PJM Machinery
Click HERE to sign up for the event.
LANDSCAPE RECOVERY: FLOOD REDUCTION, WATER QUALITY AND BIODIVERSITY IMPROVEMENT ACROSS THE UPPER DEBEN, ALDE AND ORE RIVER CATCHMENTS
UPPER DEBEN EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
UPPER ALDE AND ORE FARM CLUSTER
6pm: Upper Alde and Ore Introduction to what our shared application could include, potential finance sources, what Landscape Recovery agreements entail
6.15pm: John Pawsey, Lead Farmer of Connecting Constable and Gainsborough Country Landscape Recovery Project to share with us his experience and what he hopes to get out of the project + questions
6.45pm: Upper Deben arrive, refreshments for all, time to chat informally amongst all 3 river catchments
7.15pm: Nicola Robinson, Environment Agency National Landscape Recovery team - will share with us insights from current Landscape Recovery projects with a similar focus to ours + questions
8pm: Upper Alde and Ore welcome to depart or stay
8pm: Upper Deben Update on Expressions of Interest so far
Opportunity for EOl's to give feedback on possible actions within our Landscape Recovery project and items to include in the application budget
8.30pm: Meeting Close
Soil health
Soil Health | The Weatherproof farm
Make your soil function, whatever the weather
SPEAKERS
Niels Corfield - The Weatherproof Farm
Charlie Ennals - Wildfarmed
Josiah Meldrum - Hodmedods