Rootstock conference: Financial and environmental resilience

The recent Rootstock conference, held in Devon, looked at how farmers could build sustainable, profitable businesses in tune with natural processes

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Silas Hedley-Lawrence
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Silas Hedley-Lawrence

As farm manager at FAI Farms, a research farm in Oxford, Silas Hedley-Lawrence has been managing farms regeneratively for eight years, aiming for both financial and environmental resilience. He said...

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