We’re counting down the days until #NatureFriendlyFarmingWeek! We’ll be kicking off on Monday with a special giveaway you won’t want to miss. Make sure to join us! ✨
The theme this year is ‘Solutions for climate change and communities’. We’re celebrating the vital role farms play in addressing climate pressures and supporting local communities.
Swipe for some of the many ways farms can offer climate solutions. 👉
These approaches help to reduce emissions, make farms more resilient, and manage the impacts of extreme weather.🌍
You can support farming and reduce your climate impact this Nature Friendly Farming Week by visiting your local farm shop. Find a farm shop near you 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cfwyhuvmqp
#NFFWeek #NatureFriendlyFarming
This Nature Friendly Farming Week, we’re encouraging everyone to support local farmers and help tackle climate change by buying food directly from independent farm businesses.
Visit a farm shop or farmers’ market, buy direct online, sign up to a veg box scheme - or simply show your support for your local farmer on social media. 🥕
Farmers trying to do things differently often rely on direct sales. Take NFFN farmer Matt Elphick, who wanted to farm in a more nature-friendly way: small-scale, mostly grass-fed cows, once-a-day milking, and calves reared on the farm. 🐄
But farming this way meant @nutfielddairy needed to sell directly to survive. After trying different approaches, Matt and his wife Betsie transformed an old electric milk float into a mobile farm shop, selling their milk, homemade cheese and yoghurt - and soon, ice cream too. 🥛
The farm shop on wheels has helped Nutfield Dairy grow, bringing in regular customers, while allowing Matt and Betsie to continue farming in a way that works for nature.
This Nature Friendly Farming Week, support farmers like Matt and Betsie by choosing to buy direct. 💚
👉 Read about Matt’s journey in his own words - see link in bio
#NFFWeek #NFFN #naturefriendlyfarming
Visit our organic farm! Next week is Nature Friendly Farming Week, organised by @nffnuk
Join us next Thursday 21st May from 1.30 pm for free tea and cake and a mini guided farm walk at Treberfedd Farm 🚜 SA48 7NW, drop in anytime from 1.30pm to 4.30pm DM for questions or email [email protected]
In collaboration with Nature Friendly Farming Network
We’re kicking off show season at the Balmoral show! 🙌
Come along to the Regenerative Farming Zone at H26 in the Horticulture Area, where NFFN NI Manager Cormac Dolan will have the kettle on and be brewing tea for anyone fancying a cuppa and a chat. Drop by to share ideas, talk about nature-friendly farming and connect with others. 🍵
You can also join our CEO, Martin Lines, in a panel on ‘Nature-based solutions for water quality’ on Thursday at 1.00pm.
#NFFNNI #NatureFriendlyFarming #BalmoralShow
How can nature-friendly farming provide food and flowers in the midst of a climate crisis? And how can it do this while restoring wildlife and protecting our rural communities? 🐄 💐
For #NatureFriendlyFarmingWeek, meet two inspirational farmers and find out how they achieve this and more on their farms. Louise Skelly and her family run a sheep farm in Northern Ireland ( @shanaghanhillfarm ), while Roisin Taylor ( @verdeflowerco ) is a flower farmer in North East England. Hosted by the one and only Ifan Davies ( @davies_ifan ).
If you love good food, have a passion for nature, or simply want to rediscover a deeper connection to what you eat, come join our webinar!
Book your space by clicking the link in our bio. 🔗
#NFFN #NFFWeek #NatureFriendlyFarming #HealthyFood #ClimateCrisis
Celebrate #NatureFriendlyFarmingWeek with an evening of great food, film, and conversation in County Down!
Have you seen #SixInchesOfSoil yet? This inspiring documentary follows farmers across the UK who are challenging the industrial food system. They are transforming how they produce food, healing the soil, improving our health, and supporting local communities. 🪱
Enjoy a hearty organic stew prepared by Mourne Larder Chef Paul Cunningham, before settling in for the screening.
Book your ticket by clicking the link in our bio. 🔗
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➡️ So what was I actually challenging on my recent @nffnuk roadshow? 🛣️ Wintering in Wales isn’t easy. Wet land, poaching from livestock; all resulting in poor animal performance. This all amounts to higher wintering costs and rising production costs 📈
But here’s the shift I’m trying to get across 👉🏻 It’s not the rain. It’s your soil health. And that’s the message I took to the road for the NFFN roadshow across Wales 🏴
Wales is wet - that’s not changing. So instead of fighting it or blaming it, we need to work with it 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Across the talks, I focused on how soil can be improved to handle those conditions - better structure, more organic matter, improved infiltration 💦
When that’s right, everything changes:
• Land carries stock better • Wintering outside with ease • Better performance • Lower costs
📣 I was also honoured to be joined on the roadshow by farmers sharing their own knowledge including Ned Feesey, Dafydd Elfyn Owen, Rhidian Glyn, Rhodri Lloyd Williams, Tom Cowcher, Peter Anthony, Hugh Jones, Huw Foulkes, Humphry Wells and Dan Smith. A great asset to the presentations to really drive our message forward👏🏻
It was great to see this message coming through the printed booklets too; giving something practical that farmers and those supporting land management at a landscape and catchment scale can take away and apply. 🤩
The message stays the same ➡️ Assess your soil, understand it, and make changes that work on your farm. Stop fighting the rain start making it work for you 💪🏼
What have you found to be your biggest challenge over winter? Drop a comment below👇🏻 And if you’re working in land management, advisory roles, or supporting landscape-scale change and want to explore this further, follow the link in my bio to book a call 📲
@rspb@rspbcymru@wwfcymru
#FarmAdvisor #RegenerativeFarming #SoilHealth #WeatherProofFarm
At NFFN, we believe farming is the solution to reducing chemical exposure. We are calling for a ban on glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant. But we know it’s not as simple as just stopping. Farmers are often the victims of a system that has become heavily reliant on chemical inputs.
A gradual transition is the only way forward:
✅ Farmers need practical alternatives to dry crops to market standards, especially in wetter regions.
✅ No farmer should be left with an unsellable harvest. We need a clear, timed phase-out.
✅ UK farmers shouldn't be undercut by imports produced to lower standards. If we raise the bar, the market must support it.
Our CEO, Martin Lines, says:
“Bringing us in line with the EU, which takes a more robust approach to protecting people from harmful substances, would be a step in the right direction."
#NatureFriendlyFarming #NFFN #glypohosate
Happy 100th Birthday, Sir David Attenborough! 🎂
He has given decades of dedication to our natural world. David Attenborough has shown us the beauty of nature and why it matters. That's what drives us here at the Nature Friendly Farming Network. 💚
From the Amazon rainforest to the British countryside, he has been an inspiration for everyone interested in, or working to restore, nature. Thank you for a lifetime of wisdom, wonder, and commitment to wildlife.
“In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the Earth.” 🌍
#SirDavidAttenborough #HappyBirthdayDavidAttenborough
@davidattenborough
Could flowers earn their place on your farm? They may be seen as niche, but flower growing is proving its value within nature-friendly farming .🌼
NFFN flower farmer Roisin Taylor is showing how flowers can fit alongside existing systems, boosting biodiversity and farm income. As a high-value crop, they offer strong returns while attracting pollinators in huge numbers. 🐝
With around 90% of flowers sold in the UK still imported, there’s a real opportunity to build a stronger, homegrown sector. Roisin is keen to see more collaboration between farmers and small-scale growers to share land, resources and new income streams.
"We need stronger, more resilient businesses so that growers can scale up and florists can actually get access to British flowers. We need a visible, coherent sector with a voice that consumers can recognise and support.”
📅 Roisin will be speaking during our Nature Friendly Farming Week webinar on 20 May.
More details coming soon - watch this space!
#NFFWeek #NatureFriendlyFarming @verdeflowerco
Check out our events happening in England for Nature Friendly Farming Week and beyond!
23 May - Norton Court Farm Open Day 🐄
Meet Debbie Wilkins on her mixed farm in Gloucestershire, using pioneering nature-friendly approaches. Learn how traditional practices, like haymaking, are being combined with modern ideas to improve soil, reduce chemicals, and manage flooding.
24 May - Gowbarrow Hall Farm Open Day 🥕
Meet Claire and Sam Beaumont at their upland farm in the Lake District, where food production and nature go together. Learn how they are restoring soil health, increasing plant diversity, and supporting wildlife through nature-friendly changes.
28 May - NFFN Dung Beetle Workshop: helping pastures & soil 🪲
Join Dr. Kelly to find out how dung beetles contribute to IPM, learn management practices to maximise beetle abundance, and how to monitor beetles on your farm.
Find out more and book by clicking the links in our bio. 🔗
#NFFWeek #NFFNEngland
