Sustainable Food and Farming Working Group

As some of you will be aware, one of the findings of my Churchill Fellowship Research was 'to establish a working group with partners to investigate how care farms might introduce more sustainable farming approaches'. A number of the care farmers I spoke with were already introducing more sustainable ways of working such as agroforestry, permaculture and carbon capture methods but were also interested in finding out more about other approaches.

In July 2021 and in conjunction with OxCan - the Oxford Climate Alumni Network I created the Sustainable Food and Farming Working Group. The group is aimed at Oxford University Alumni, Staff and Students as well as interested non Oxford individuals. Some within the group work in food or farming or research related topics but the majority of members are simply interested in learning more about food and farming.

Our main aims are: to identify topics of interest and take a deeper dive into these areas, to arrange peer to peer visits to farms and food producers, to collaborate with other organisations and to share our findings and outcomes.

If you would like to learn more about the working group or express an interest in getting involved then please follow this link to our OxCan news page.