Farming matters: Andy Cato - "A resilient food system must work with nature"

Aboveall, what we need in 2024 is a kind spring. At our farm, we decided to use the good weather post-harvest to deal with widespread compaction issues

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Musician, regenerative farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed
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Musician, regenerative farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed

Completing this loosening work would dovetail nicely with later autumn sowing to help get on top of what is quite a considerable weed burden. We imagined going into winter with the roots of cereal-legume...

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