Rootstock conference: Finding alternative routes to market

Farmers need to balance environmental and financial sustainability; speakers at the Rootstock conference in Devon discusses whether alternative routes to market help

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Abby Allen speaking at the Rootstock conference in Devon
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Abby Allen speaking at the Rootstock conference in Devon

Pipers Farm founders Peter and Henri Greig are at odds with farming intensification, the loss of small-scale family farms and homogenisation of supply chains. So to take back control they built a market...

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