Farm Scale Permaculture - The Oxford Real Farming...

Farm Scale Permaculture

Session of the Oxford Real Farming Conference5th January 2017#ORFC17

l Session chair: Andy Goldringl @andygoldring l CEO, Permaculture Association

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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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