NFU activity across the festival
The Workshop
Find NFU Education in The Workshop on day 1, 10:00 – 10:55, for a workshop entitled ‘Through the Farm Gate: Removing Barriers, Building Belonging’.
NFU Education is teaming up with The Country Trust and Emergent Generation to run a workshop exploring the cultural, structural and informational barriers to engaging with and entering the farming industry.
Using the perspectives of each organisation, the session will examine how people engage with food, farming and land and identify barriers and ways to overcome them, including envisioning what a more inclusive pathway could look like.
On day 2, The Workshop will host the session ‘Solutions for Local Slaughter: Small Abattoirs in Local Meat Supply Chains’.
Hear from experts in the small abattoir sector, including NFU Senior Veterinary Adviser Claire White, as they discuss new smaller, on farm and mobile abattoirs and take questions from the audience.
Claire is joined by Kevin Maher (Food Standards Agency), Andy Gray (The Centre for Dynamic Soils), National Craft Butchers Managing Director Eleanor O’Brien, and Tom Bowling, abattoir owner, farmer and butcher at Edge and Son Ltd.
The Study
Head to The Study on day 1 from 16:00 – 16:55 for the session ‘Changing Climate, Changing Crops: Scaling Novel Crops’ which will explore diversification by way of novel and non-traditional crops.
The session will feature David Lord, NFU East region crops board member and farmer at Earls Hall Farm, alongside Jenna Hegarty, head of policy at Nature Friendly Farming Network, and Josiah Meldrum, co-founder of Hodmedod Ltd.
