Regenerative Farming advisor & practitioner Tim Williams will take you through a day of learning.

The morning will be spent understanding the whys and wherefores of regenerative agriculture, looking at soil health and delivering a theoretical session on how soil truly functions, and what we can do as practitioners to make the soil sing.

The morning classroom session will be followed by a session on the practicalities of regenerative farming , how you can implement it within your growing or farming system and the practical elements required to get you there.

Think cover cropping, composting, mob-stocking, and min-till systems.

The day will be broken by a beautiful lunch of regenerative organic produce.

We will also go through baseline soil assessments and ongoing soil health monitoring in order to understand and record the increases in soil health, a key feature of a regenerative system, using both the Soil Mentor App and the Microbiometer.

*We are offering a small number of supported (free) tickets to enable those less fortunate to attend, please email me for more details - tim@thepastoralcollective.com

About the tutor - Tim Williams

With over 20 years experience within farming and associated systems, both growing and processing; conventional and organic; large scale and small, Tim's experience and understanding has led him to develop a strong practical knowledge base around regenerative and low-input farming practices that work closely with natural systems and place soil health at the core.

Educated to postgraduate level in Organic Farming, the progression towards Regenerative Agriculture has been a natural one, and for the past decade he has been working and advising within the realms of Regenerative Agriculture both here in the UK and in New Zealand.

Formerly the Stock & Soil Manager for Mangarara Station, one of the original regeneratively farmed farms in New Zealand, he is now a practicing regenerative contract farmer (amongst other projects) and is heavily involved in the conversation and education around regenerative farming practices in the UK.

He has been fortunate enough to meet and learn from some of the leading global regenerative figures including Agroecologist, Nicole Masters; Soil & Carbon Biologist, Dr Christine Jones; Regenerative farm planning expert, Darren J Doherty and Grazing guru, Ian Mitchell-Innes.

His time is now split between farm management, design, education and advisory work