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Wallace Currie interviews Kate Speke Adams about her experiences as a Nuffield Scholar and her work with the Herefordshire Rural Hub.

Today on the Tales of a Nuffield Scholar series I had the pleasure of chatting with Kate Speke Adams 🎙️ Kate is Managing Director of the Herefordshire Rural Hub, a farm support organisation helping farmers and rural businesses navigate everything from regulation and resilience to succession and business change. She is also a 2015 Nuffield Scholar whose study looked at how farmers can be re engaged with their soils through fear, finances, regulation or education 🌾 This episode also brings us to the end of series one of Tales of a Nuffield Scholar, eight episodes looking at those eligible for the Bullock Award. What a way to finish with the current holder of that award. The Bullock Award recognises the scholar who has made the most significant impact in the decade following their scholarship through leadership, innovation or contribution to the wider industry 🚜 We spoke about Kate’s upbringing on a dairy farm in Herefordshire and how her career has sat right at the intersection between farming and the environment, from work with organisations like the Environment Agency and Rivers Trust through to leading the Herefordshire Rural Hub today. Her Nuffield study focused on how…

People in this episode

Host: Wallace Currie

Guest: Kate Speke Adams

Topics covered

• Nuffield Scholar
• farming
• soil health
• peer learning
• rural business support

Keywords

• Nuffield Scholar
• farming
• soil health
• Herefordshire
• Bullock Award

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Herefordshire Rural Hub, Environment Agency, Rivers Trust

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