1st May is a music festival like no other, with headliners including blackbirds, robins, wrens and yellowhammers. For our dawn walkers it was worth getting up at 3am to hear the stunning magical finale. The dawn chorus walk was led by conservationist Nick Patel. We were joined by 33 intrepid locals, including some children, and were lucky to have a mild, still morning. Nick led us on a walk around the permanent pasture and natural flood management scheme, into the orchard, surrounded all the way by tall, thick native hedging which provides habitat for farmland songbirds. Nick’s talk was very informative and we were impressed by his ability to recognise individual birdsong among the chorus. Nick will be back at FarmED in June to lead a Pollinator Farm Walk & Lunch. Booking now!  FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

With funding from The Woodland Trust and the help of a hundred volunteers, we’ve planted over 2500 trees at FarmED to showcase different types of agroforestry - from silvopasture and silvoarable systems to silvohorticulture in the kitchen garden. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

Our next Agroforestry Design Masterclass is booking now for September. Looking to integrate trees into your farming business but don’t know which trees to plant, how many, or where? Unsure about fencing, or how to market your tree products? Whether you are interested in planting trees for food or biomass production, livestock shelter or browse, overall resilience or any other goals, this two-day intensive workshop will save you time by giving you the skills needed to design your own project as well as easy to use planning tools to take home with you for the future planting. You will be guided through an intuitive agroforestry design process by some of the UK’s leading agroforestry practitioners, receive 1:1 advice in clinic sessions, and walk away with a detailed agroforestry design for an area of your farm. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

Edd Colbert talks to farmland bird specialist, James Kempton, from the University of Oxford. James is conducting surveys of birds at FarmED as part of a supplementary bird feeding project across the NE Cotswold Farmer Cluster Group. He talks about the importance of birds as part of an integrated farmland ecosystem and the benefits to farmers of increased numbers of bird species on their land. Edd and James are joined by some of FarmED’s avian residents and visitors - yellowhammers, robins and chaffinches! James Kempton is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology. His research concerns flight of albatrosses and falcons, and in particular how an understanding of their flight control and energetics can inform the development of more sustainable and capable drone technology. As part of his interest in sustainability, James is leading the survey component of a project that investigates the impact of supplementary feeding on farmland bird species. This project takes place in association with the NE Cotswold Farmer Cluster, headed by Tim Field, and is funded by a Farming in Protected Landscapes (FIPL) grant. With sustainability interests abroad, he is also leading a research expedition to the Cyclops Mountains of New Guinea in search of ‘lost’ and new animal species whose (re)discovery will help garner sustainable conservation interventions in this extraordinary and threatened mountain range. My Zoology page: https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/james-kempton? Richard Broughton's 2020 paper on which the current study design is based: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00063657.2021.1922356?journalCode=tbis20 FIPL in Cotswolds National Landscape page: https://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/looking-after/farming-in-protected-landscapes/ FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

In the first of an occasional series of films about how we source produce here at FarmED, to serve at FarmEAT, cook Chloe Horner introduces Ori from Missing Bead who provide our coffee. Based locally, they source shade-grown, organic coffee beans directly from a multi-generational family farm in Columbia. FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

FarmED and our architects Timothy Tasker Architects Ltd has received the Special Award for Sustainability in the The Civic Trust Award. The Civic Trust Award is the longest standing architectural and built environment awards scheme in Europe and the Special Award is presented to a scheme that has demonstrated excellent sustainability credentials. This year 45 projects have been selected to receive recognition within the Civic Trust Awards, AABC Conservation Awards and Selwyn Goldsmith Awards, alongside 6 Special Awards recipients that have demonstrated excellence in a specific field: The Special Award for Sustainability is ‘presented to exemplar project that demonstrates excellent sustainability credentials in terms of overall design parameters, material selection, construction methods and long term energy consumption. Sponsored by Derwent London.’ FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

FarmED is working with 3LM, The Savory Network Hub in the UK and Ireland, to deliver 12 days of comprehensive holistic management training in 2022. This training is ideal for pioneering farmers, land managers and advisers with a passion for regenerative agriculture. We are running the training over four three-day blocks in 2022. We will first introduce the fundamentals of holistic management before we explore the concepts of land planning and ecological monitoring, holistic planned grazing and financial planning.  Course 1: Holistic Management Fundamentals (28th - 30th March 2022)  Course 2: Holistic Financial Planning (25th - 27th April 2022)  Course 3: Holistic Planned Grazing (23rd - 25th May 2022)  Course 4: Holistic Ecological Monitoring and Land Planning (27th - 29th June 2022) In addition to the formal training, we will facilitate peer to peer learning and discussion. We will also hear from a number of guest speakers and farming practitioners, take a tour of the various enterprises at FarmED and visit local regenerative and agroecological farms that are adopting a holistic approach. Participants will be fed from nutritious, seasonal, and locally produced food from the FarmED kitchen. As an added bonus all participants will be given lifetime access to the Regrarians workplace - a private online knowledge community led by internationally renowned educator and regenerative farmer Darren J. Doherty. This training is accredited by the Savory Institute and is the gateway to becoming an accredited professional educator, adviser, monitor and verifier in Holistic Management. Cost The comprehensive 12-day training package is £1950 + VAT. The fee will cover tuition, all course materials (manuals, forms, writing materials, and ecological monitoring kit) guest speakers, great food and visits to local farms. Special offer - 10% discount for members of the Pasture Fed Livestock Association. Book Now - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk/event-details/holistic-management-fundamentals-2

FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

Chloe is busy sourcing like-minded suppliers, farmers and growers and preparing for the launch of lunches later this month! Already on board are The Kitchen Garden People, the Dairyy at Honeydale, Church Lane Produce, Hodmedods, Tree of Life, Zingy Beer and Matthews Flour. More to follow soon. In the meantime, the FarmED Cafe is open as usual for coffee, teas and a mouthwatering range of cakes, from 10am-4pm most Mondays-Fridays. If you come along to one of our courses or events you’ll likely be sampling Chloe’s delicious, nutritious meals before anyone else. Check the events programme for details. #cooking #cook #cheflife #cotswolds #oxfordshire #sustainablefood #farmtofork #farmtoplate #farmtotable #food #foodie #foodiesofinstagram #chippingnorton #burford #kingham #chadlington #charlbury #wychwood FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

This Summer Quick Fix has been in the ground for two months. It will be mown and drilled with rye and vetch Over Winter Mix, providing winter cover and early grazing for the cows next spring. https://www.cotswoldseeds.com/products/2325/summer-quick-fix-mix https://www.cotswoldseeds.com/products/1042/rye-vetch-over-winter-mix FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk

Emma Mills from The Kitchen Garden People, FarmED’s resident community supported agriculture growers, introduces our new Marketing Gardening course. (October 12th- 15th) Whether you want to start a market garden from scratch or are looking for ways to regenerate your existing vegetable business, this course provides the opportunity to learn all there is to market gardening. Join us for three days of inspiring talks, practical workshops, and delicious seasonal meals, all delivered by the FarmED team in collaboration with the Kitchen Garden People. @thekitchengardenpeople https://www.farm-ed.co.uk/event-details/market-gardening-from-soil-to-sales #marketgardening #veggrowers #vegetablegrowers #kitchengarden FarmED is the new Centre for Farming and Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner-led knowledge exchange events and personal development. The farm is a diverse mix of low input arable and temporary grass, and organic permanent pasture. Our trial plots include blocks of sainfoin, herbal ley, barley, heritage wheat, wild bird seed and various cover crops. The grassland is managed by mob grazed sheep. At the heart of FarmED are two impressive eco-buildings – one providing space for conferences, lectures, workshops and special events; and the other a farm to fork kitchen and food space, and a regenerative business incubator. Our audience includes local communities, schools, universities, researchers, farmers, new entrants, foodies, businesses, environmental groups and policy makers. Our Website - https://www.farm-ed.co.uk