What I wasn't prepared for was the positivity, everyone was happy, chatty and jovial. And this was what others where commenting on too! Even while standing in a food que the guy behind you would introduce themselves and chat farming or soil or similar!
In the evening the music tent fills quickly, the tunes are pumping out around the site and then Andy Cato comes on the decks and the whole thing erupted. It was incredible.
What started in 2016 with 450 attendees has grown astronomically to 7500 attendees this year! What has kept this event special is that it is a farmer to farmer learning event all with soil health as the core focus. Initially attracting arable farmers wanting to move away form ploughing, to now attracting farmers from all sectors, market gardeners, corporations interested in how farming can offset their carbon consumption, seed companies, NGO's etc. This makes it an interesting diverse event with lots of topics to discuss and advances in soil health to learn.
The great beer, cider, food and music with lots of space to socialise all helps make this a truly unique event in the agriculture calendar.
Oh and I won 3rd place in Soil Farmer of the Year with Farm Carbon toolkit - which obviously had me buzzing the rest of the event!!!
Oh and I won 3rd place in Soil Farmer of the Year with Farm Carbon toolkit - which obviously had me buzzing for the rest of the event!!!
Check out their YouTube channel as all the talks are currently being uploaded, probably take another week or two for them all to be online, so many great ones to catch.
