Soil Association Producer Meeting - Kent

Who should attend?
Everyone is welcome—whether you are Soil Association certified, certified with another body, or not certified at all. Feel free to bring family, friends, and neighbours.
Schedule

Directions: Bore Place, Bore Place Road, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 7AR

https://w3w.co/gallons.forest.clues

Schedule

11:00am – Arrival

11:15am – Farm overview, discussion & Q&A

12:30pm – Light lunch

1:00pm – Farm walk

2:30pm – Close

About the farm
The event will be hosted at Commonwork Farm on the Bore Place Estate, a 500 acre organic farm in Kent. They combine organic land management with programmes that support learning, wellbeing, and connection with nature. The farm currently hosts grazing livestock, part of a diverse business model designed to support nature recovery and build community resilience. Through their charitable work, they provide education for children and young people, opportunities for families and people with additional needs, and programmes that improve access to nature and green spaces.

The farm walk will be hosted by Anna Bullen, Chief Executive, Bore Place.

Anna is using her extensive knowledge and skills from academia and work with government bodies, local authorities, businesses, land managers, NGOs and community groups across the world, to lead the estate into its next phase.

Your Southeast representatives are Sophia Lysaczenko and Barnes Edwards.

Sophia is the vice chair of the OPB and co‑founder and operations co‑director of The Organic Growers Gathering.

Barnes is a director and co-owner of The Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight and volunteers for the local Biosphere Steering Committee.

Anna, Sophie and Barnes will also be joined by:

Helen Browning, Soil Association Chief Executive

Katrin Hochberg, Farming Director, Soil Association Charity