by Sara Gregson | May 24, 2021 | Farming & Food
A recent visit to Fobbing Farm, on the northern shore of the Thames Estuary at Tilbury, has uplifted my spirits. Young farmer George Young, returning home from a high-flying career in the City eight years ago, is bringing ideas, life and diversity back to a...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 5, 2021 | Farming & Food
I remember taking a phone call in the back of a black cab in London from a founder member of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association (PFLA) about ten years ago. He was suggesting I take out the word ‘regenerative’ from a press release I had written – because no-one...
by Sara Gregson | Jan 15, 2021 | Farming & Food
I usually visit many farms each year – to talk to and write about inspiring and innovative grassland farmers. Not so in 2020. I popped down to Cornwall and Devon early in January to do an article on alternative forage crops, and in February met a Dorset dairy farmer...
by Sara Gregson | Nov 29, 2019 | Farming & Food
I have always dreamt of herding cattle from horseback cowboy-style, across wide open spaces, through alpine pastures and along deep, salmon-red rocky canyons, and in and out of winding, rushing rivers. I loved the western TV series ‘The Virginian’, have ridden...
by Sara Gregson | Jul 6, 2017 | Farming & Food
Groundswell is an innovative, farmer-led annual event that showcases farming practices that promote soil health, for example by not ploughing and the introduction of mob-grazed cattle. Hundreds of farmers attended the inaugural ‘No Till’ Groundswell day, organised by...
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by Sara Gregson | Mar 27, 2017 | Farming & Food
With Pasture Promise milk now selling in 109 Asda stores and Waitrose milk being promoted heavily in their weekly newspaper – it looks like consumers are starting to care how cows spend their days. With Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty shouting their cause, it is no...
