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Ben Eagle’s podcast road trip: Abbey Home Farm in Cirencester
This is the first in a series of trips on the Meet the Farmers podcast to farms in the Cotswolds,…
Cattle, cooking and glamping – life on an English farm
Ben Eagle speaks to Emily McVeigh at the Kenton Hall Estate in Suffolk, England. The business is a family business…
Easton Farm Park: What’s an ‘open farm’?
In this episode of Meet the Farmers Ben visits Fiona Siddall who runs Easton Farm Park in Suffolk, the second…
What’s an ‘open farm’ and how do you build one from scratch?
Sally and Shan Bendall run Hollowtrees Farm in Suffolk which is an open farm, farm shop and cafe which welcomes…
Meet the farmer: Cattle producer Silas, in Oxfordshire
In this episode of Meet the Farmers Ben speaks to Silas Hedley-Lawrence who is herd manager at English Farm in Oxfordshire….
1 million free-range eggs: A week in the life of Alaistaire Brice
Ben Eagle visits free-range egg farmer Alaistaire Brice who farms with his wife Fiona, and works with 16 other farmers…
The farmer-researcher: Growing enough food sustainably
Ben Eagle talks to Phil Jarvis about his experiments to farm more sustainably, while maintaining the highest possible yields. Ben…
Beef cattle, crops and a children’s play-barn
In episode 40 of the Meet the Farmers podcast Ben Eagle speaks to Richard Bower, who farms in Staffordshire, England,…
‘Female Farmer UK’ talks local food and farmer identity
Katie Anderson (aka Female Farmer UK) is a young farmer originally from Essex who is now living and working in…
Talking mental health with Norfolk farmer Kit Papworth
This week’s Meet the Farmers podcast features Kit Papworth, who sadly lost his father, David, last year to suicide. We…
Food ethics: With Helen Browning, CEO of the Soil Association
In this, episode of the Meet the Farmers podcast, Ben speaks to Wiltshire farmer and Chief Executive of the Soil…
Hope Farm: Making profit and conservation work together
In this episode Ben speaks to Georgie Bray, the farm manager at the RSPB’s Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire. The key…
On the farm with NFU’s deputy president Guy Smith
In this episode of Meet the Farmers Ben speaks to deputy president of the National Farmers Union of England and…
Conservation and farming cousins: Meet Patrick and Brian Barker
Patrick and Brian Barker are cousins who farm around 500ha of cereals, herbage grass seed, linseed and spring beans in…
Turkey guru Paul Kelly tells his story
Ben’s guest in this episode of Meet the Farmers is Essex turkey farmer Paul Kelly, who’s family breed KellyBronze turkeys,…
Spotlight: The Nature Friendly Farming Network
The Nature Friendly Farming Network is a farmer-led, grassroots organisation which profiles a way of farming that puts nature and the…