Rossendale, Lancashire
England
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** Still scrolling for answers are we?? WELL - here what we're trying to do here:
2) Next job on the list is switching up our farming practices to lower carbon models. We want to grow food/ materials with the smallest carbon footprint possible. This is trickier than no.1 (which basically requires saving up enough money to buy new technologies that run off/ create renewable power and taking out the old diesel/ petrol/ etc stuff.) No.2 is more challenging as we are a north facing upland hill farm so our options for what we can grow here are limited. We see our responsibility as a farm as growing food/ materials for our local community that are high quality/ nutritious. We're also growing on a small scale as the farm isn't huge so we cannot benefit greatly from economies of scale. We're currently working out how best to tackle this problem by researching other pioneering farmers/ environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, Iain Tolhurst, Rory Aronson, Kimbal Musk, Joel Salatin and Richard Perkins. Know other farmers focusing on growing with the smallest carbon footprint possible not mentioned here? Want to help us research this faster so we can reduce our carbon footprint quicker? Message us! We want to do as much as we can as quick as we can and many hands make light work.
3) Teach about food, farming and the environment. As mechanisation increases in agriculture the number of people involved in growing food decreases this means less and less people have even a basic understanding of where and how their food is grown. We run educational visits with the objective of teaching about how food is grown and how the farmed environment can be managed to make space for wildlife and sequester carbon. We host free visits for schools and charities and individuals/ families can also book to look round.
4) Make buying food from local producers easier for the general public. This is in the ideas stew pot developing. You'll hear more about this as it germinates.
The quicker we can achieve the above, the faster we can do our bit to tackle climate change. This next sentence is cringe inducing for us as we like to earn our own way, but on the advice of numerous people who have encouraged us to 'let people who want to help, help' we have added a donate button below. If you have spare cash to spend, we would much rather you invest it in buying solar panels / batteries/ renewable power tech for your own use before investing in us - so do that first! If you are in a position where you've done all you practically can to reduce your own carbon footprint and are looking to do something more - your investment in us will help us pioneer a new way of farming - focusing on having the lowest carbon footprint we can, the most nutritious, delicious food we can all at a price that is affordable.
