Meet the Farmers

Putting Down Roots with Sarah Langford Sarah Langford is a best selling author, communicator and public speaker. For a decade she worked as a defence barrister but in 2017 she moved to Suffolk and, together with her husband, Ben, took on the running of his family’s small farm. They have converted the farm to organic production and have planted hundreds of metres of new hedgerows.  The paperback ve...

How to Fail at Farming Ben speaks to Josh Heyneke in this episode who farms ducks for eggs with his wife Abi in Pembrokeshire. Josh and Abi left their city lives to go farming, and have experienced many trials since then. Last year Josh made a video called How to Fail at Farming and launched a crowd funding campaign to save the farm. This is his story.  Parc Carreg is the farm.  The link to their...

Luke farms at Daintree Farm in the Cambridgeshire fens, just outside of Ramsey. He grows wheat, barley, oil seed rape, potatoes and sugar beet.  Luke on Twitter here Luke on Instagram here.   00:18 Introduction from Ben. 01:41 Luke enters. 02:27 Luke talks about his part of Cambridgeshire. 04:26 Luke talks about Cambridgeshire County Council tenant holdings and how he got his own tenancy. 06:06 Lu...

You can find out more about Ben Taylor Davies on his website   regenben.com Discover more about Nuffield Farming scholarships at Contact | Nuffield Farming Scholarships (nuffieldscholar.org) 00:18 Intro from Ben Eagle 03:18 How would Ben Taylor Davies desribe himself? 05:00 Ideas 06:55 Ben Taylor Davies talks about his friendship with James Smith 09:14 What is an average week for Ben Taylor Davies...

Link to JB Farming Life on youtube - click here 00:18 Ben introduces the show 01:40 Jen comes in 01:48 Jen talks about her life in Lincolnshire 02:26 Jen explains the challenges of their arable rotation over the last few years. 06:10 How did James and Jen meet? 08:00 How has Jen's perception of farming changed, having not coming from a farming background? 10:58 Jen talks about her career in PR and...

Regenerative Agriculture - Knepp Pasture for Life – Certified 100% grass-fed meat, milk and dairy The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett | No.1 Podcast  

List of all the winners from last year's Cream Awards available here. 

Home | Oxford Farming Conference (ofc.org.uk) Oxford Real Farming Conference (orfc.org.uk)  

Ben is joined by Emily Norton, Guy Smith, Gareth Wyn-Jones and Sophie Gregory to look back on the year in farming and have a bit of fun along the way with the annual quiz!

Ben meets Karl Franklin aka 'The Pretend Farmer' on Instagram, who left his career as a chef to take up sheep farming.

Farmwilder.co.uk The Lakes Free Range Egg Company Forestry Commission

Forestry Commission Grascott Farm Case Study Chatsworth Estate Case Study   Tree planting and woodland creation overview Read some inspiring woodland creation  case studies  Find out more about England Woodland Creation Offer   www.chatsworth.org  

Soil Association Forestry Commission Woods for Nature Fact Sheet   - How woodland creation can help biodiversity Tree planting and woodland creation overview Read some inspiring woodland creation  case studies  Find out more about England Woodland Creation Offer  

This episode is a bonus episode produced with A-Plan Rural Insurance .  Farm and Estate Insurance, Rural Motor Insurance, Rural Home Insurance and Much More | A-Plan Rural (aplan.co.uk) Logie Estate  

The podcast Toby mentions is The Centre for Army Leadership podcast.

Link to James' website  Link to Michael Blanche's Nuffield report.    Image credit: Kingsclere Estates  

Ben travels to just outside of Bath to meet Somerset arable (and wine) farmer Emily Addicott-Sauvao.

Ben meets Jim Beary who farms beef, sheep, pigs and chickens in the Westmorland Dales which is in Cumbria but part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Link to Amanda''s latest book Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess Link to the Meet the Farmers Patreon Page - to support the podcast Timecodes: 00:20 Ben introduces Amanda 02:12 Amanda comes in 03:14 Ben and Amanda talk about reading and writing 07:50 Young people with the farming dream 09:25 Writing books 15:07 Ben and Amanda discuss her most recent book Celebrating the Seasons...

Ali's farm website - Ali Capper - Stocks Farm

01:35 Kate comes on 02:17 discussion on the current state of the pig sector 03:57 Is this pig crisis any different to previous crises? 07:48 Intro to Kate's farm and how it has changed over time. 11:50 The Morgan family used to have an outdoor unit. Here it is discussed. 13:35 The farm's diversifications 16:05 Kate moves from University to the world of work 16:45 When and why did she move back to...

Link to the website of The DPJ Foundation - Mental Health Farming Charity | Home | The DPJ Foundation 00:00:11 Ben introduces the podcast and today's guest Emma O'Donnell 00:03:17 Emma O'Donnell, today's guest, enters the conversation. 00:07:45 Emma explain's how she and Dan first met. 00:15:50 Emma talks about how she began researching mental health 00:19:56 Emma explains the events in July 2016...

If you'd like to sponsor Bizza for running the London Marathon and make a donation to Farm Africa click here .  You can follow Bizza on Instagram by clicking here . (@adventuresofashepherdess) Instagram accounts mentioned by Bizza: @samonthefarm_1 (Sam Walton) @downondaintreefarm (Farmer Luke)   To find out more about Ben visit benjamineagle.co.uk To support Meet the Farmers on patreon and join th...

You can find out more about The Black Farmer by visiting their website.  To find out more about Wilfred's 'New Faces of Farming' initiative with Writtle University College click here.  To support Meet the Farmers please visit our PATREON PAGE where you can join the Meet the Farmers Supporters Club and access bonus content. Visit patreon.com/meetthefarmers  . As Ben mentions in this podcast we are...

Ollie White started his farming journey over ten years ago and now farms on a Somerset County Council farm near Ilminster. Visit farm2fork.co.uk for more information.