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Download PDF Finding innovative ways to reduce emissions and capture carbon seem to be a family pursuit for Thomas Gent. CPM visits their Fenland farm to explore the system that inspired Gentle Farming. No one really knows how to sell carbon until you set your mind and just do it. By Tom Allen-Stevens
Caught in the light coming through the half-open workshop doors, the Weaving GD8000T is an impressive piece of kit. But it has two curious additions – a hay rake tine wheel has been attached at each end of its 8m span. “You always find something’s being modified or adapted whenever you come in the workshop,” says Thomas Gent as he inspects the additions. “These move the swath of straw so we can get the cover or catch crop drilled as soon as the harvester leaves the field without having to wait for the baler to arrive – the combine header’s also 8m wide,” he explains. At 24 years old, Thomas calls himself a ‘child of regenerative agriculture’. “The farm here has been following it for 12 years, so it’s all I’ve ever known. Put me on a plough or cultivator and I wouldn’t know what to do…
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Download PDF Finding innovative ways to reduce emissions and capture carbon seem to be a family pursuit for Thomas Gent. CPM visits their Fenland farm to explore the system that inspired Gentle Farming. No one really knows how to sell carbon until you set your mind and just do it. By Tom Allen-Stevens
Caught in the light coming through the half-open workshop doors, the Weaving GD8000T is an impressive piece of kit. But it has two curious additions – a hay rake tine wheel has been attached at each end of its 8m span. “You always find something’s being modified or adapted whenever you come in the workshop,” says Thomas Gent as he inspects the additions. “These move the swath of straw so we can get the cover or catch crop drilled as soon as the harvester leaves the field without having to wait for the baler to arrive – the combine header’s also 8m wide,” he explains. At 24 years old, Thomas calls himself a ‘child of regenerative agriculture’. “The farm here has been following it for 12 years, so it’s all I’ve ever known. Put me on a plough or cultivator and I wouldn’t know what to do…
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