‘The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) is proud to be sponsoring the first ever Northern Real Farming Conference. This is a fantastic opportunity to share best practice and new innovative ideas across the farming community which will benefit nature, the climate and our farming businesses.’ Martin Lines NFFN UK Chair
The Northern Real Farming Conference team would like to thank the Nature Friendly Farming Network for their support. They join Lancaster University and the Economic and Social Research Council as sponsors of the event.
The Northern Real Farming Conference will take place between 28 September and 10 October, with over 50 dedicated sessions covering everything from dung beetles to flood management, agroforestry to urban farming, hill farming to seed saving – and everything in between!
With over 60 session proposals submitted the first ever Northern Real Farming Conference promises to be a great event, combining webinars and discussions on dedicated topics, networking and social events, and co-creation sessions. Get your ticket now!
Tickets are now on-sale for the Northern Real Farming Conference 2020 which can be purchased via the Permaculture Association website.
You can read more about our ticket policy and pricing here.
You can also make an application for a bursary place at the conference via the application form.
Suzy Russell and Mick Marston from the Community Supported Agriculture Network UK share their views on why we need a Northern Real Farming Conference.
At the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Network UK we’re delighted to be supporting the NRFC. Why? Because it’s much needed. In the last few years we’ve been putting time, energy and resource into encouraging and supporting CSA in the North of England where there has, until, now, been little activity. And it’s paying off. In the last ten months our Northern membership has more than doubled with the increase across both rural and urban areas. Urban CSAs are taking off and forming part of wider sustainable food ecosystems being developed in many of our big post-industrial cities.
With this growth has come the need to be talking more to the needs and particularities of the north. CSA has, until now, been more prevalent in the south of England, and as a result much of our knowledge and resource has been developed in an environment which differs significantly from the north.
The climate is different. Farming systems and traditions are different. Land ownership is different, politics are different and demographics are different.
The desire to produce good local food is the same though as is the desire to get together and talk about what we are doing, how we are doing it and how we can persuade others to do it too. COVID has exposed seismic faults in our food system and chasms of inequality amongst our people all of which call for radical change, and change which is adapted to local environments. NRFC will provide a much needed and valuable space to come together in enacting this change and unlocking the door to CSA Up North.
