2020 Archive

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Northern Real Farming Conference Opening Session

Sep 28 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Virtual Veg craft with Mme Zucchini

Sep 28 2020 – 7:30 pm – 8:15 pm

A story of seed – an interactive northern Seed Sovereignty networking session

Sep 28 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Building Food Security through Resilient Short Food Supply Chains; online shopfronts for farmers, growers and producers

Sep 29 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Scottish Agricultural Policy: Where it's at and where to go from here

Sep 29 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Practical ways to achieve Net Zero

Sep 29 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Common sense farming

Sep 29 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

From research to action: Supporting food, farming and health transitions to a greener and fairer society for all

Sep 29 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Building regional autonomies for a small farm future

Sep 29 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Food for crowded populations in an uncertain and compromised future

Sep 30 2020 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

All about Community Supported Agriculture

Sep 30 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

What could your dung beetles be doing for you?

Sep 30 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Selling better food – the Better Food Traders

Sep 30 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Why is seed sovereignty important?

Sep 30 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

How / Can nature-friendly urban farming and growing contribute to tackling food security & the climate emergency?

Sep 30 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Upland perspectives: can farmers, conservationists and researchers work in partnership to grow carbon efficient, bio-diverse and food productive farming in the North

Sep 30 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Using a permaculture approach to diversify farm outputs in the context of ELMS

Oct 01 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

New entrant support for farmers: The Farmstart Model

Oct 01 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Agroforestry in the North

Oct 01 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Crowdsourcing ideas for farmer led research

Oct 01 2020 – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Our Common Cause: Collective and collaborative management of upland commons and beyond

Oct 01 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Unlocking land for CSA in the North of England: Challenges and Opportunities

Oct 02 2020 – 10:30am – 12:00 pm

Race and Ethnicity in Agriculture

Oct 02 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Facilitating a transition to regenerative livestock farming in the North

Oct 02 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Exploring the links between farming and other rural enterprises: Could Brexit make or break the chain?

Oct 02 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

What does a dietitian have to do with farming?

Oct 02 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Wilderculture - a hybrid of regenerative grazing and rewilding for the uplands

Oct 03 2020 – 10:00 pm – 12:00 pm

Natural Flood Management walk

Oct 04 2020 – 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Farm Tour: working with nature on a croft

Oct 05 2020 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Moving a flerd long distance

Oct 05 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Growing real food for nutrition: Measuring nutrient density to improve citizen and planetary health

Oct 05 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Rewarding results for nature friendly farming

Oct 05 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

It begins with a grass-fed sirloin steak in a handbag

Oct 05 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Exploring the benefits of diversity in Agriculture

Oct 05 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Implementing agroforestry with native cattle as part of a healthy agro-ecosystem

Oct 05 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Developing supply chains for minor cereals in North East England

Oct 06 2020 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

The advantages and challenges of working within a Farm Cluster Group: a discussion

Oct 06 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Social prescribing of community urban food growing: transforming citizen health, neighbourhoods and futures

Oct 06 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Natural Flood management and improving the headwaters of the River Lune

Oct 06 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Alternatives to contentious inputs in organic horticulture

Oct 06 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Japanese Rural Development & Marginal Hill Farming: what can we learn from farmers in other cultures?

Oct 06 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Getting it together - structural and governance options for co-operative and community agriculture organisations.

Oct 07 2020 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Moving beyond food aid – how do we change it from a hand out to a hand up?

Oct 07 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Nature as a stakeholder in a farm business

Oct 07 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Reforming land ownership, and potential for change of land use

Oct 07 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Cow-with-Calf Dairying: a survival strategy for the family farm?

Oct 07 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Natural Flood management in in Woodlands, tree planting and ELMs

Oct 07 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Nowt but a fleeting thing: film screening and Q&A

Oct 07 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Promoting veterinary engagement with the principles and practices of regenerative agriculture

Oct 07 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Scotland's Changing Landscape

Oct 08 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Public Money for Public Good? How can small-scale producers maximize opportunities offered by public sector procurement?

Oct 08 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Organic at the heart: Developing an agroecological food and farming network in Northern England

Oct 08 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

What's a Hill Worth? Preparing public goods for payment on upland farms around Pendle Hill: Issues, Approaches and Findings

Oct 08 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Nature friendly farming: farm business case studies

Oct 08 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

The value and vulnerability of the small abattoir: Screening and Q&A

Oct 08 2020 – 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

An introduction to coppicing in the context of cooperative working

Oct 09 2020 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Open-space to co-create next steps

Oct 09 2020 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Tunes and tales from Whinpot Farm

Oct 09 2020 – 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Day of reflection: making the NRFC count

Oct 10 2020