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ReGenAg Chat
Hosted by Liz Genever and Nic Renison · EN
We are delving into the world of regenerative agriculture with regular interviews with farmers who are changing how they farm to benefit their land, their community and themselves. Hosted by Nic Renison and Liz Genever, founders of the Carbon Calling conference and lovers of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
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Be The Change series: Episode 3 talking with Alan Robinson
Mar 1000:54:31Tap to summarizeBe The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved.For this month, we talk to Alan Robinson, who is one of the BTC farmers from Cumbria. We talk through his "journey" and how he is developing his system. The importance of mindset and building a network are very strong themes. LINKS: https://www.kingsdalehead.com/https://pastureforlife.org/https://www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk/https://ahdb.org.uk/take-control-of-your-farm-s-future-with-roots-to-resilienceAMP =adaptive multi-paddock grazingSee https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more details of the farmers and the project.Thanks to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for their contribution to the BTC project.
Transcribe →Be The Change series: Episode 2 talking with Will Heygate
Feb 2201:23:02Tap to summarizeBe The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved.For this month, we talk to Will Heygate, who is a sheep and arable farmer from Northamptonshire. He runs a similar system to Sarah and will share their experiences through the recently funded Anglian Water cluster group focusing on biological approaches. LINKS: BHAG = big hairy audacious goalsWe spoke about Jade's recent webinar - https://youtu.be/Y-v_VfYYOms?si=vVAnPSuiDlBOOyKBhttps://www.regenben.com/https://indigro.co.uk/agronomists-the-team/See https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more details of the farmers and the project.Thanks to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for their contribution to the BTC project.
Transcribe →Be The Change series: Episode 1 talking with Sarah Bell
Jan 701:04:29Tap to summarizeBe The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. The first one is with Sarah Bell, one of the farmers. She is based in Rutland and runs a mixed farm with her family.See https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more details of the farmers and the project.Thanks to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for their contribution to the BTC project.
Transcribe →Launch of Be The Change programme
Aug 2200:21:01Tap to summarizeCarbon Calling is stepping off the stage and back into the fields, launching a new campaign to support three forward-thinking farmers with a year of hands-on coaching from our team and trusted partners.Be The Change is a year long coaching programme using the Carbon Calling network of professional partners to give you support and direction for a clearer future for your farm.We’re looking to recruit three farms across the North and Midlands who are willing to work with us for 12 months, taking a deep dive into their farm, and ultimately host an on-farm event in June 2026.We are looking for farms who make most of their income from farming, who are interested in making changes to their system (e.g. reducing inputs, changing breeds, detailed soil tests, encouraging more nature through schemes, getting different people onto their farms) or are confused with where they have got to and need some additional support.Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/bethechange for more info
Transcribe →Carbon Calling conference 2025 special - Nicola MacPhail
Jun 2000:18:42Tap to summarizeLiz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Nicola MacPhail, who is one of the facilitators on the Tuesday at this year's conference. She is wrangling up to 12 tables of chatty people.We talk to Nic about the session she is planning and the inspiration around itThis is the last one of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.
Transcribe →Carbon Calling conference 2025 special - Ian Robertson
Jun 1500:24:23Tap to summarizeLiz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Ian Robertson, who is one of the speakers on the Thursday at this year's conference. And he loves soil more than anyone we know!We talk to Ian about the background to his love of soil and helping farmers. Plus what he will cover at the upcoming conference, which will be an interpretation of Nic and Reno's soil results.This is the third of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.
Transcribe →Carbon Calling conference 2025 special - Daniel Iddon
Jun 1000:44:22Tap to summarizeLiz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Daniel Iddon, who is one of the speakers on the Thursday at this year's conference. And he loves fungi more than anyone we know!We talk to Daniel about the background to his company and his love of wood. Plus what he will cover at the upcoming conference. This is the second of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.
Transcribe →Carbon Calling conference 2025 special - Jules Matthews
Jun 500:44:16Tap to summarizeLiz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Jules Matthews, who is the headliner at this year's conference. And we love her. We talk to Jules about her background and her approach with clients. Plus what she will cover at the upcoming conference. This is the first of a series of four podcasts where we talk to people who are talking at the conference. Go to https://www.carboncalling.farm/ for more details. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.
Transcribe →ReGen Ag chat - Liz and Nic chat through the conference
May 14, 202500:25:06Tap to summarizeLiz Genever and Nic Renison talk through the programme for the upcoming conference on the 24-26 June. More details can be found at carboncalling.farm, including the full programme and the link for ticket sales
Transcribe →ReGen Ag Fancy Chat 14 - Peter Craven
Apr 16, 202501:14:24Tap to summarizeLiz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Peter Craven who has recently been appointed Head of Agriculture at Natural England. We talk about Peter move from his family farm to working with NIAB and now Natural England. We spent a while discussing his Nuffield studies and the importance of setting up a family charter. See https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/Peter%20Craven%20Nuffield.pdf and https://familycharter.co.uk/. Liz and Peter were on Oxford Farming Conference Emerging Leaders Programme together in 2020, and we bumped into one another again at ORFC in January.This is the third of a series of three podcasts where we talk to people who have changed their "identity" and are now leaders within regenerative and agroecological approaches. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.
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