Hendre Llwyn y Maen is a hill farm of approximately 400 acres with additional in buy land rising up to 1100ft above sea level . Robin Crossley, the owner, is a keen environmentalist and values the woodlands as an important...

25 October 2022

1 September 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Mycorrhiza can be added to systems physically via inoculation or encouraged from surrounding environments
• Inoculation strategies should be considered carefully given the ecosystem and climate in which they will...

During this programme, we’ll be catching up with some of the farmers who are taking part in EIP projects, to hear how they are trialling innovative ideas that can help with some of the challenges they face.

8 July 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Biodiversity contributes unseen benefits  and is essential for a sustainable future
• Traditional biodiversity evaluation is time consuming, costly and difficult to scale up
• Technologies could help to collate and...

Geraint Davies of Fedw Arian Uchaf Farm near Bala shares what he’s been doing to improve the environmental and economic performance of his farm from planting new hedgerows to incorporating rotational grazing and trialling agroforestry. Also on the podcast is...

Geraint Hughes of Lafan Consulting and Bryan Dickinson of Wild Resourced Limited discuss the progress on the EIP Wales project looking into birch sap processing.

22 June 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Woodland creation is a core consideration for both UK and global greenhouse gas mitigation strategies and is set to increase in the foreseeable future
• Despite the environmental benefits of...

1 June 2022

Biodiversity surveys provide a beneficial baseline of how a farm supports wildlife, and highlight opportunities to further improve habitat corridors across Wales, a new pilot study suggests. 

A pilot project at Pendre Farm, a Farming Connect...

13 May 2022

Welsh farmers have been assured that measures that protect and increase biodiversity on their farms can be easily integrated and have benefits for their livestock.

Farms already have valuable assets in their hedges and trees. By...