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Farm Scale Permaculture
Session of the Oxford Real Farming Conference5th January 2017#ORFC17
l Session chair: Andy Goldringl @andygoldring l CEO, Permaculture Association
l www.permaculture.org.uk/farming
l www.permaculture.org.uk/farming
Running orderIntroductions (permaculture, wider context, carbon farming, farmers and growers group, speakers) - Andy Goldring
Permaculture solutions for farmers - Niels Corfield
Successful commercial polycultures – Tomas Remiarz
Permaculture your project – Hannah Thorogood
Discussion, question, wrapping up and thanks – Andy
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
Gregory Bateson
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Permaculture = learning to think and act like an ecosystem
Design thinking = strategic systems thinking
Ethics - Principles – Design(then ACTION)
Ethics
Earth CarePeople CareFair Shares
= one planet living
Ecological principles
Design
The Permaculture Association supports people to learn about and use permaculture in the UK
and internationally.
Farmers & Growers Network (logo coming soon...)
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Tomas Remiarz
Hannah Thorogood
Niels Corfield
You!
Today's speakers
Bottom up action
Inkpot, Lincolnshire Ragmans Lane Farm, Gloucestershire
Tap O'Noth, Scotland
Many hundreds of projects (farm, school, park, business, etc)in the UK and 10,000+ across 130+ countries globally.
= eco-jobs, sustainable produce,biodiversity and carbon sequestration
Meet Eric Toensmeir- he's done the maths...
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Carbon Farming
Sequestration rates and lifetime SOC rates for many techniques and practices
The polycultures can have much higher Land Equivalent Ratios than monocultures(and greater resilience to pests, disease and climate variability) = more crop per unit area
Tree based polycultures have the greatest sequestration rates
Heterogeneous landscapes (diverse & 'patchy') are best for wildlife
The French (and others) are investing heavily in agroforestry
Prince Charles, Baroness Scotland (Secretary general of the Commonwealth), and many others at Cop21 & 22 are putting Carbon Farming at the centre of their adaptation plans.
Lal estimates that agriculture, forestry, and ecosystem restoration can reduce atmospheric CO2 by 50ppm
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there is a growing network of existing farmers and growers
keen to move this forward
and a network of new entrants keen to engage
We have many farmers ready for retirement
and soon we will need to develop a new (out of the EU) agricultural / land use strategy
We need to support a rapid transition to carbon farming
and ecological land use
Supporting the development of eco-design training, research
and practice.
Thanks for listening and engaging
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l Andy Goldringl @andygoldring l CEO, Permaculture Association
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