For those of you with long memories, I promised before Christmas to post about a new initiative we are running here this year. I'm posting it here, because one of the non-negotiable details was that we had to stick to no-till. It's called #ourfield and it's basically a collective of 40 or so investors who've each put £200 in to grow a field of a spring cereal. The collective will all decide what to grow and how to grow it. The idea came from a similar project called 'A field of wheat' run in Lincolnshire last year.
We've had a couple of meetings so far and we're gearing up for the big decision of what to grow and what level of inputs to use. It's a bit time-consuming, but, so far, completely fascinating as all the investors are such interesting and interested people.
http://www.ourfieldproject.org/
I can honestly say I've not thought that much about wheat as a product, beyond the protein or hagberg levels we 'achieve'; talking to the millers and bakers and consumers has been a real eye-opener already. If this works, they are hoping to roll the project out across the country.
We've had a couple of meetings so far and we're gearing up for the big decision of what to grow and what level of inputs to use. It's a bit time-consuming, but, so far, completely fascinating as all the investors are such interesting and interested people.
http://www.ourfieldproject.org/
I can honestly say I've not thought that much about wheat as a product, beyond the protein or hagberg levels we 'achieve'; talking to the millers and bakers and consumers has been a real eye-opener already. If this works, they are hoping to roll the project out across the country.