ReGenAg Chat

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. For this month, we talk to Henry Russell, who is a regenerative adviser ( htt...

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. For this month, we talk to Liz, and her husband Rob, Hargreaves, who farm in...

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. For this month, we talk to Simon Hare, who is Alan's grazing mentor. We...

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. For this month, we talk to Alan Robinson, who is one of the BTC farmers from...

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. For this month, we talk to Will Heygate, who is a sheep and arable farmer fro...

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community.  We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. The first one is with Sarah Bell, one of the farmers. She is based in Rutlan...

Carbon Calling is stepping off the stage and back into the fields, launching a new campaign to support three forward-thinking farmers with a year of hands-on coaching from our team and trusted partners. Be The Change is a year long coaching programme using the Carbon Calling network of professional partners to give you support and direction for a clearer future for your farm. We’re looking to recr...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Nicola MacPhail, who is one of the facilitators on the Tuesday at this year's conference. She is wrangling up to 12 tables of chatty people. We talk to Nic about the session she is planning and the inspiration around it This is the last one of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the co...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Ian Robertson, who is one of the speakers on the Thursday at this year's conference. And he loves soil more than anyone we know! We talk to Ian about the background to his love of soil and helping farmers. Plus what he will cover at the upcoming conference, which will be an interpretation of Nic and Reno's soil r...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Daniel Iddon, who is one of the speakers on the Thursday at this year's conference. And he loves fungi more than anyone we know! We talk to Daniel about the background to his company and his love of wood. Plus what he will cover at the upcoming conference.  This is the second of a series of four podcasts where we talk...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Jules Matthews, who is the headliner at this year's conference. And we love her.  We talk to Jules about her background and her approach with clients. Plus what she will cover at the upcoming conference.  This is the first of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to ht...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison talk through the programme for the upcoming conference on the 24-26 June.  More details can be found at carboncalling.farm, including the full programme and the link for ticket sales 

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Peter Craven who has recently been appointed Head of Agriculture at Natural England.  We talk about Peter move from his family farm to working with NIAB and now Natural England. We spent a while discussing his Nuffield studies and the importance of setting up a family charter. See https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/sites/defa...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Marian Boswell, who is a landscape architect (https://www.marianboswall.com/) and author. Her newest book - The Kindest Garden - has been recently published.  She was on the CREATE UK course with Liz and came to Carbon Calling in 2024, and we love her. We talk about beavers and energy work!!! This is the second of a series...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Alex Crawley, who is an ex-army officer and civil servant, who now runs a grazing management service on the English and Welsh border with his wife. He talks about how he runs a profitable and nature-based business, plus his plans for his Nuffield travels.  This is the first of a series of three podcasts where we talk to pe...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Antony Yousefian, who is the founder of The First Thirty (TFT). Through TFT they are investing in companies that are using nature within the solution.   This is the third of a series of three podcasts were we talk to "disrupters" - people who want to do things differently and challenge the status quo.  This episo...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with James (JJ) Edwards who is first generation sheep and cattle farmer. They talk about all sorts - mental health, the challenge of having sheep hours apart, conservation grazing, Carbon Calling conference and acknowledging our privilege.  This is the second of a series of three podcasts were we talk to "disrupters"...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Holly Silvester who is a commercial organic vegetable and seed grower, and Future Resilience Seed Coordinator for The Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Programme. She is incredibly passionate about empowering farmers and growers to come together to improve crops specifically adapted to local areas, soils and local markets. ...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Dominie Fearn is the founder of The Wild Hare Group and has a passion about nutritious food and its link to soil health. Determined to find a way to produce fresh convenience foods using nutritious, natural and fully-traceable ingredients, she set on her way to producing fresh, nutritious, sustainable ready meals – and the...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Dr David Unwin, who is a GP who specialises in using diet to reduce risk of type 2 diabetes.  He has reversed his Type 2 diabetes (driven by his love of biscuits as a way of dealing with stress) through diet. He talks through how his patients have reversed their diabetes and use the app Freshwell to plan...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Dr Sally Bell, who is a doctor who specialises in women's health. She is a massive advocate for good food alongside spending time in nature, breathwork and managing stress levels. We talked about the similarities between conventional ag thinking and how doctors are managing chronic health issues. Thi...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Rose Ferraby, who is an archaeologist and artist. We talked about what considering the past can help us plan the future of land use, plus how to engage people with wider conversations about land.  Expect a collage session at the next Carbon Calling. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https:...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Francis Dunne, who is an independent grass and forage seed specialist. We talked about herbal leys and the importance of understanding what the objective of the ley in when making decisions. Francis shared his experience of getting seeds to grow. We also briefly debated cultivations vs glyphosate. This ep...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat to Vic Ballantyne - speaker at this year's conference. She spoke about her farming system and diversified business, plus why she loved last year's Carbon Calling. Liz meant Michael Aspel btw and Vic meant Agri-Environment Climate Scheme .  In the chat we talk about session 3 at last year's Carbon Calling chaired...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat to Allen Williams - headliner at the upcoming conference - about why people need to come and see him in a few weeks. In the chat we talk about the documentary Roots so Deep and Allen's TED Talk - First Heal the Soil , and the Understanding Ag's 6-3-4 approach.  See here for more info on Allen. Carbon Calling conferenc...