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Sunday 10 July 2016

Wild Farming in South Devon @ BBC Radio 4

A nice little programme earlier on Radio 4:

Wild Farming in South Devon

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Sarah Swadling meets sheep farmers Rebecca Hosking and Tim Green and discovers how they are using mob grazing to regenerate exhausted arable land. They are tenants on a coastal farm exposed to the elements with challenging topography. When they inherited it the soils were thin and stony - now they're using agro-ecological practices to boost its fertility and bring more wildlife back onto the farm.
They've adopted a bold way of managing the land and the livestock; the method of Holistic Planned Grazing, also nicknamed mob grazing, which mimics how wild herds feed and move. Their flock of 600 sheep graze a paddock for a day before being moved on to fresh pasture. The sheep then won't come back to that patch of land for another 4 months, giving the pasture time to recover, simultaneously creating new topsoil and organic matter. It's a method first developed by Allan Savory inspired by herds on the African savannah, and Rebecca has adapted it to work specifically for Village Farm. Sarah joins Rebecca for the daily move of sheep and hears why she gave up filming BBC wildlife documentaries with David Attenborough to return to her farming roots.

BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, Wild Farming in South Devon

This is the farm:
Village Farm - farming with nature in South Devon



Living With The Land | Part 3 | Farming with Nature - YouTube

And here's a bit more info:
Holistic management (agriculture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Holistic Planned Grazing - YouTube
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