Tales of a Nuffield Scholar with Alex Brewster
About this episode
The episode features a conversation with Alex Brewster about his experiences as a Nuffield Scholar and his approach to farming.
Today on the Tales of a Nuffield Scholar series I had the pleasure of chatting with Alex Brewster 🎙️ Alex is an upland beef and sheep farmer in central Scotland, running a large scale hill farm that has gone through huge system change over the past decade, with a real focus on soils, grazing and whole farm resilience 🌾 We spoke about Alex’s early life, heading off to New Zealand as a young lad and quickly realising there was a lot more to learn about farming than he first thought. That experience planted a seed that would later come back through his Nuffield journey, where curiosity and a willingness to question everything became a big part of how he now farms 🚜 His Nuffield Scholarship started off looking at genetics and genomics, but quickly shifted into something much broader. It became about diversity, soil biology and ultimately the role of red meat in the 21st century. Alex spoke about how uncomfortable he felt with some of the early conversations around heavy intervention in genetics, and how that pushed him towards a more natural systems based approach 🌍 One of the standout parts was hearing how everything finally clicked just hours before his presentation. Bringing…
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