R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

Norfolk horn, farming therapy and an award in the House of Commons  Today we welcome Olivia Shave! Olivia is the person behind ecoewe where she farms and actively pursues methods of rare breed sheep monetisation battling the idea of ‘rare for a reason’.   A columnist, a believer in keeping rural traditions alive and much more! Olivia speaks about a major trauma that saw struggles fo...

Boobs, fundraising and inspiration! Today we welcome a legend in my eyes!  Lucy Thornton who has has in her words 42 jobs to date and really has tried everything but had three main loves, animals, teaching and the woods! Currently working as a lecturer in Wildlife Conservation Management at SRUC Barony where she runs forest school, teaches and is involved in a lot of college activities....

The Nuffield Alumni Podcast  Today is the start of something new!  You have met a lot of the Nuffield scholars on the podcast lately.  David Rose, a Nuffield scholar realised there was a lot of excellent stories out there not being told on the basis people had drifted form the Nuffield community and maybe don’t use social media for instance! This is our way of showcasing t...

Falling 20 metres into a coma world records and climbing the Burj Khalifa without ropes!  From one world record chaser in the last episode to someone who holds many!  Today’s guest, Alain Robert from France who now lives in Bali has spent FIFTY years free solo climbing…for those that don’t know what that is it’s climbing rocks and buildings with nothing but yourself, no support and no ro...

Shearing, shearing and a world record attempt in shearing!  Sometimes you meet people that do a lot of things and sometimes you meet people that have dedicated their whole life to one thing. Today’s guests has broken barriers her whole way through life! To this day she is the only woman to have made the coveted Top 30 at the Golden Shears in New Zealand, she spent 8 years on trailers at the s...

Veterinary, Nuffield and…Farming in Qatar?! Todays guest, Miranda Timmerman is someone I’ve followed for a while as miranda_vet however never actually realised she was a Nuffield scholar until I sat and listened to to her topic on gastrointestinal parasite management at last years conference!  Not only was the topic very interesting but also a stand out from a presentation perspective (my fav...

4-H, dancing, Tanzania and…Banana bread? Ever meet someone and just get on straight away? That was myself and today’s guest and I’m quite certain she’ll have that impact on most!  Maddy Bretey-Smith from Iowa in the states was one of the American team in Tanzania that we spent a week with last year!  She has been in 4H her entire life and now as a staff member leads a team that she once...

Getting into farming, calf rearing and millions of views! Our guest today, Josie Eccles studied at SRUC Barony and studied during the online Covid environment! Josie doesn’t come from farming and after studying animal care noticed agriculture was where her heart was! So the door knocking began and phoning people just asking for a chance now here she is choosing the clients she reads calves for all...

Cow calf contact, horse racing and…judging in the UAE!  Today’s guest has been a target in the pod for a while! Anna Bowen is a Nuffield scholar who looked originally at the practise of killing bull calves.  She was a COVID scholar and there for things got delayed, the practise her topic was based on was (finally) outlawed and she made a shift to cow calf contact. You can see Anna t...

 Vet nursing, vet medicine and working 13 hours a day round uni! I speak to a lot of people, some people shine for their ability to overcome challenges, some a job I’ve never heard of or heard much about and some just inspire you for so many reasons! That last one is the story of today’s guest, Leah Griffiths!  Leah, like many other teens wanted to be a vet and didn’t quite get what was...

Almost 2 million followers, travelling the world with hoof trimming and the best beard on this call! First off…200 episodes! Well it’s actually 207 because of bonus but that’s not got the same ring to it! The networking tool, source of much hilarity, education, reality and feeling of being part of something this has all offered me is insane so for every person that never misses an episode, those o...

Quiz today on general knowledge, music, science, the month of May and a fun last round a wee bit different from the norm! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fixing a politically engrained issue in Canada and living -40! Night 2 in Brazil I jumped in the pool again on my own when everyone was bored of it…as it felt like nothing short of warm tea I decided to jump out and heard someone shout “hey Wallace” and I instant recognised the person as the 2024 Nuffield Scholar with hands down the coolest title!   Tatum who works in credit is from an i...

Born in Malta, raised in Sudan and buying fat cattle in St Boswell! That may have started sounding like a Royal Navy apprenticeships advert but it’s not 😂 I’ve always been an avid believer that as good as I can be in a classroom there is only so much experience I can have and to pass on experience and knowledge from a vast vault is so rich in merit.  With this we put on an industry day...

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A stroke in her 20s, revitalising cider and one of the Mumford and sons?  To conclude what has been a remarkably enjoyable series interviewing the full 2024 cohort of UK Nuffield scholars we welcome Polly Hilton onto the podcast. Polly, who’s behind find and foster fine cider noticed orchards had lost the respect and utilisation they once had experienced and wanted to try change that.  D...

Harper Adams, Motivation and…Vices? Today’s guest, Alex Hardie and I spoke years ago (both new to our current roles in education) we started having a chat a few weeks ago again. I expected us to talk about his role as business development manager but we barely did! We had a brief chat about Harper, I invited myself there, I convinced Alex to do a Nuffield Scholarship and that was about that. Where...

Research, regeneration and…cattle cubicles of compost?? Jamie Jack and I had a chat a few weeks ago and instantly I thought he’d be class for the podcast! Originally not from farming he wanted to go into video game design with naturally had me interested! He soon realised that wasn’t his career and gave farming a go before studying at SRUC. This was followed by research, a job that turned out not...

Lions, Elephants and Saving the Planet  Tonight’s guest has dedicated his life to wildlife conservation mainly based in Africa but also to further reaches of the globe. Born in Zimbabwe, staying in South Africa Ivan Carter is somewhat of a Steve Irwin of Africa.  Not only conserving but also researching the topic as well Ivan is a well known TV and now social media personality shari...

For each well of my travels I intend on releasing a wee update of what’s been happening. This one covers travelling from Holland to Switzerland and then my week in Switzerland! Enjoy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For each week of my travels I intend on releasing a wee update of what’s been happening? This covers my amazing week in the Netherlands and also the stuff that went bad in Brazil! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grain, journalism, hunting and…ecology? Today’s guest, who if I released video you’d realise is my Canadian double! Matt McIntosh (yes he mentioned his strong ties to here) from a grain farm in Canada works as an agricultural journalist primarily and his goal is to shift that in the other direction with farming being his main income. He is very aware of issues that could prove damaging to agroecol...

Nuffield, psychology and a retirement plan of…a pilot licence and a PhD! If that doesn’t make you want to listen I don’t know what will!  You’ll notice I’ve had a lot of Nuffield scholars on lately and every single one of them has been impacted by today’s guest. Wyn Owen, an 1998 Nuffield scholar (as he says you could do them when you were 12 back then) from a peaty upland farm in wales left...

Let me know what you think of this! I love quizzes and thought why not make one!? I can’t bring myself to call it the R2Kwuiz! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you farm carbon? A question posed by 2022 Nuffield scholar, Ben Hunt! When I hear it I immediately in the current world consider carbon a commodity in that question.  This was the same for Ben when he started out but as his travels progressed he started to consider carbon the resource with an after thought as a commodity! Ben is an agronomist, he’s worked for British sugar, worked in...