Be The Change series: Episode 2 talking with Will Heygate

About this episode

In this episode, Will Heygate shares his experiences as a sheep and arable farmer in Northamptonshire, discussing sustainable farming practices and community collaboration.

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 Will Heygate, who is a sheep and arable farmer from Northamptonshire. He runs a similar system to Sarah and will share their experiences through th...

People in this episode

Hosts: Liz Genever, Nic Renison

Guest: Will Heygate

Topics covered

• sustainable farming
• community engagement
• sheep farming
• arable farming
• farm planning

Keywords

• sustainable agriculture
• farming practices
• community farming
• sheep and arable farming
• farm plans

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carbon Calling

Places: Northamptonshire

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