Mixing it up: ORFC 2018 insights

• Politics took centre stage at the 2018 ORFC - the podcast features a few words from Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in conversation with Zac Goldsmith.
• 'The Soil Never Sleeps', a book of poetry from the Pasture Fed Livestock Association (PFLA), written by their poet-in-residence Adam Horowitz was launched at the conference - you can get a copy here.
• You can listen to two PFLA farmers, Fidelity Weston and Chris Jones, share their experiences of working with a poet, and read poems written about their farms.
• Human ecology and holistic food systems in cities are explained by Abi Morden of Propagate, who run Glasgow based food projects.
• Richard Smith, farm manager at Daylesford talks about his favourite crop, sainfoin and just how beneficial it can be.
• Ted Green describes the virtues of pollarding for fodder.

• Farmerama Radio describes itself as a community sourced radio that produces a monthly podcast "sharing the voices of smaller scale farmers in the UK and beyond."

(Header image shows mowing sainfoin at Daylesford)