ReGenAg Chat

Be The Change is a new project that Carbon Calling are running. It focuses on three farmers - Sarah Bell, Alan Robinson and Liz Hargreaves. Specific farm plans are being created by working with lots of different organisation and people from within our community. We are doing a series of podcasts with the people involved. For this month, we talk to Liz, and her husband Rob, Hargreaves, who farm in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. We talk about the challenges of their system and what we are...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Marian Boswell, who is a landscape architect (https://www.marianboswall.com/) and author. Her newest book - The Kindest Garden - has been recently published. She was on the CREATE UK course with Liz and came to Carbon Calling in 2024, and we love her. We talk about beavers and energy work!!! This is the second of a series of three podcasts where we talk to people who have changed their "identity" and are now le...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Antony Yousefian, who is the founder of The First Thirty (TFT). Through TFT they are investing in companies that are using nature within the solution. This is the third of a series of three podcasts were we talk to "disrupters" - people who want to do things differently and challenge the status quo. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tre...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat with Holly Silvester who is a commercial organic vegetable and seed grower, and Future Resilience Seed Coordinator for The Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Programme. She is incredibly passionate about empowering farmers and growers to come together to improve crops specifically adapted to local areas, soils and local markets. The Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Programme are having a seed swapping event later in t...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Dr David Unwin, who is a GP who specialises in using diet to reduce risk of type 2 diabetes. He has reversed his Type 2 diabetes (driven by his love of biscuits as a way of dealing with stress) through diet. He talks through how his patients have reversed their diabetes and use the app Freshwell to plan meals. His son is a butcher - https://roastmutton.co.uk/ - and he grows his own meat a...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Rose Ferraby, who is an archaeologist and artist. We talked about what considering the past can help us plan the future of land use, plus how to engage people with wider conversations about land. Expect a collage session at the next Carbon Calling. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection needs.

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - chat to Vic Ballantyne - speaker at this year's conference. She spoke about her farming system and diversified business, plus why she loved last year's Carbon Calling. Liz meant Michael Aspel btw and Vic meant Agri-Environment Climate Scheme. In the chat we talk about session 3 at last year's Carbon Calling chaired by Michael Blanche, with Nikki Yoxall, Sarah Langford, Claire Whittle and Amy Hughes. Click here to see a...

Liz Genever and Nic Renison - co-founders of Carbon Calling CIC - catch-up and then chat with Jack Bobo, who is the Director of the University of Nottingham Food Systems Institute. We talked about all sorts, including regenerative production at scale and how we need to think holistically when it comes to provide food for a growing population. See here for more info on Jack. This episode is sponsored by Cactus Tree Guards - https://cactustreeguards.co.uk/ - for all your tree protection need...