Underground Thinking: Farming, the intelligent way: Recent Episodes
Underground Thinking
The farming podcast that discusses the practicalities of the regenerative movement and how intelligent farming is what paves the road for the future.Tim Parton, multiple award winner and farm manager at Brewood Park Farm, and Nick Woodyatt, ex grower turned Soils Health and Plant Nutrition Advisor, and all round regenerative approach enthusiast, defy the industry norm looking into more intelligent farming techniques that benefit the farmer, soil and ecosystem.
Nick and Tim review Groundswell and talk pre harvest!They discuss how Groundswell, as a show, recognizes the value of what regen farmers do whilst staying a core festival of life focusing on soil, sustainability, food and people. Tim caught COVID again but helped prove a valuable point of Nicks on earwash timings and Nick dives into Tims thoughts on Spring Cropping and what a normal Spring is now..
Nick and Tim sign out of the office and take a walk around Brewood Park Farm looking at Tim's OSR, lupins, wheat, heritage wheat, barley and beans. With no fungicides, no pesticides, no PGRS and low soil applied N (highest application of 50kg in some areas) Nick compliments Tim on the increasing balance of nature and he discusses how this has been possible this year by looking at Tim's foliar feeds; Micronutrients, Aminos and Silica.
Nick returns to Brewood Park Farm, and Tim, after recently being ill to discuss what exactly has been happening building up to the Spring. They discuss in detail the products used and methods of application whilst looking on the optimistic side for a splash of rain...
It's now February at Brewood Park Farm and is Nick starting to delve into Tim's plans for the Spring season. Tim discusses the importance of Calcium, crimping cover crops using Trevor Tappin's specially designed crimper and how his OSR is clean as a whistle from CSFB!
Nick and Tim discuss Silicon and how it has made such a vast difference to both their careers, Nick with Horticulture and Tim with Agriculture. They review the advantages of mixing Potassium Silicate after last years successful seasonal trials at Brewood Park Farm.
Nick and Tim discuss what it takes to learn to be a farmer again, working with nature with the soil at the heart of the business. The passion to find a better way of farming has led Tim to learn to make his own decisions, not just from a profitability point of view, but how we invest to help work with nature and heal the damage we have caused.
Nick delves into Tims farm rotation and establishment techniques and asks why is that Tim farms as an intelligent farmer and not as a low input farmer?