Farm Life

FG's farm life hub brings you everything from heart of the rural community. With everything from farm profiles, recipes and young farmers, to history, charity and health and wellness. We have rural life covered.

Farm Profiles
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How organic premiums make a low-input system stack up on Devon farm
Farm Life

How organic premiums make a low-input system stack up on Devon farm

Wendy Short
clock 28 May 2026 • 7 min read
Award-winning Guernsey milk drives retail growth on Buckinghamshire farm
Farm Life

Award-winning Guernsey milk drives retail growth on Buckinghamshire farm

Wendy Short
clock 21 May 2026 • 7 min read
Future-proofing the family farm with robots and retail
Farm Life

Future-proofing the family farm with robots and retail

Wendy Short
clock 07 May 2026 • 7 min read
Inside a Scottish farm running 2,000 ewes, suckler cows and a growing tourism business
Farm Life

Inside a Scottish farm running 2,000 ewes, suckler cows and a growing tourism business

Wendy Short
clock 30 April 2026 • 7 min read
Regenerative Farming
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Ban on glyphosate: For or against? Two farmers go head to head in The Big Farm Debate
Arable

Ban on glyphosate: For or against? Two farmers go head to head in The Big Farm Debate

The use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant has become an increasingly contentious subject both inside and outside farming. We asked two industry figures to put the case for and against a potential ban

clock 05 June 2026 • 4 min read
Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?
Blogs

Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

With renewed interest in the health risks asocciated with glyphosate, Ash Ellwood ponders what is fact and what are merely 'claims'

clock 04 June 2026 • 2 min read
Silas Hedley-Lawrence: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now"
Sustainable Farming

Silas Hedley-Lawrence: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now"

Prominent regenerative farmer and agroecological coach Silas Hedley-Lawrence on the benefits of shade for crops, livestock and overall soil health

clock 29 May 2026 • 6 min read
Want to farm regeneratively? These top tips are a starting point
Farm Business

Want to farm regeneratively? These top tips are a starting point

With more farmers looking at using fewer inputs, regenerative farming methods could provide the answer. But where do farmers start?

clock 28 May 2026 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Harold Amiss: "Farming by the coast has brought challenges"
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Harold Amiss: "Farming by the coast has brought challenges"

Harold Amiss, 21, lives in The Lizard, Cornwall, is currently studying agriculture at the Royal Agricultural University

clock 20 May 2026 • 3 min read
Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence - "You are what you eat, and so are your livestock"
Soil

Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence - "You are what you eat, and so are your livestock"

Silas Hedley–Lawrence is a farmer, coach and consultant with a decade of hands-on experience in regenerative agriculture. With a background rooted in both commercial and direct selling models, he champions lean, profitable farming systems that increase biodiversity and soil health. Silas is an Integrity Soils trained agroecological coach from the Yellowstone 2024 cohort

clock 01 May 2026 • 4 min read
Backbone of Britain
Farm Health Series
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