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  • 4: Go Wild: Planting Wildflowers to Encourage Biodiversity with Ash Pearson

    4: Go Wild: Planting Wildflowers to Encourage Biodiversity with Ash Pearson
    2024/08/07
    We meet the National Trust's Ash Pearson on a field overlooking the cove of Cape Cornwall. We have come here to see how the collaboration with Nick Hall and his Wildflower Project are being used. We move from the residential application as we learned in the episode with Nick and see it applied on a grand scale, in this case along the South West Coast Path. Ash takes us through a tired and overgrown paddock along the trail to show us how the "plugs" Nick supplies along with other applications the National Trust are using are revitalising the area and attracting and feeding an increasing amount and variety of insects and butterflies.

    Ash reflects on the unique relationship and networks that can be formed between grassroots businesses and larger organisations to solve very local needs and challenges - The Wildflower Project being a case in point. Like Nick, they both share in caretaking of the land in such a manner that providing the best quality nutrition in the native plants they choose provide the number and variety in order support the local biodiversity.
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    30 分
  • 3: Go Wild: Planting Wildflowers to Encourage Biodiversity with Nick Hall

    3: Go Wild: Planting Wildflowers to Encourage Biodiversity with Nick Hall
    2024/08/07
    We're hanging out at Bosavern Community Farm with Nick Hall where we are learning about his Wildflower Project.

    We tour the polytunnel and growing area where he and his team grow a variety of quality plants which have the purpose of not only looking wonderful but maximise attracting a variety insects, invertebrates and wildlife into one's garden patch. We learn to be on the lookout for seeds and/or plants which provide quality nectar to offer the best nutrition to your garden visitors.

    Nick's Wildflower Project and The National Trust work together to provide specialist plants which the National Trust uses to help in restoring meadows around West Cornwall. Nick speaks about the collaboration and how building and making a wildflower garden no matter the size of one's patch is vital to our future survival.
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  • The Scythe: Cutting Beautifully into Biodiversity

    The Scythe: Cutting Beautifully into Biodiversity
    2024/06/05
    Tom Waters of Scythe Kernow picked up the scythe professionally in 2020. From there he started a journey into traditional skills. Scything seems counter productive at first, many think it must be archaic and outdated, but this is not the case. Tom believes that it is more efficient than a strimmer (weed wacker) or lawnmower for dealing with long grass and if you want to allow for more diversity then longer grass, sedge and wildflower is what you will be dealing with.

    Tom also is out to disprove a common misconception - that to scythe requires a great deal of strength. Through his training he has seen individuals prove his point - anyone can scythe effectively, it’s all about technique.

    Join us for this episode as we go out into a Cornish field with Tom and watch and record him practice this skill coming back into fashion. Besides the immediate efficiency of the tool, we observe and discuss the more straight-forward, practical reasons to switch to the scythe such as

    • no fossil fuels

    • no unpleasant noise

    • it’s a pleasing, ergonomic motion that’s easy on the body, when you get it right

    • it’s great exercise

    • one is much more in tune and rhythm with the world around

    • one inherently learns more about the immediate environment and feels in alignment to the surroundings
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    28 分
  • 2: How We Built a Community Farm

    2: How We Built a Community Farm
    2024/05/29
    Building a community farm can take one acre or fifty. It is about first understanding what and who you have to work with which can set in motion a series of events, bureaucratic structure and networks which can take an idea and make it a reality with purpose. In Episode 2 we sit down with three people instrumental in the beginning of Bosavern Community Farm - a local councillor, a founder and the head gardener. Join us as they gather to reflect on almost 15 years dedicated to turning a once somewhat abandoned land into a community farm buzzing today with a market garden, grocery shop, workshops, allotments, veg box deliveries and a work experience hub for anyone wanting to learn how to make a community farm a reality or just chip in to see things grow. We talk about coincidences, perseverance and how a challenge like a global pandemic can highlight locally the reasons for nurturing a community farm throughout all seasons and challenges.

    As a side note: In 2022, the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Leadership Board acknowledged that ‘providing land and support for community growing schemes’ was a TOP priority action which everyone in Cornwall (individuals, community groups, local authorities, businesses) could and should all get behind. A full report from the University of Exeter Environmental Sustainability Institute details how these groups are tackling some of the biggest challenges of our times. The findings are available from the Sustainable Food Cornwall website together with a map showing the established community growing schemes and the smaller, new schemes sprouting up right across Cornwall!
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    47 分
  • 1: Connecting Wellbeing Through Community Farming

    1: Connecting Wellbeing Through Community Farming
    2024/04/11
    As a leadership transformation and workplace culture expert for over 20 years Yvonne Thompson, founder of www.changeinnovators.com, uses positive psychology, science and emotional intelligence to turn companies and organisations stuck in old and tired methods of management into successful and positive working cultures. But what do these global industries share with a community market farm? "Many!" says Yvonne. Listen as we explore connections which in the end not only are adaptable but transformational for families, communities, groups, and organisations such as a market farm. Yvonne has an infectious energy which drives listeners to listen and act with intent and in doing so change their path to wellbeing if open to the journey.



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    48 分
  • Welcome to Twist & Sprout !

    Welcome to Twist & Sprout !
    2024/03/28
    Hello!
    I'm Karl and I'm the host of the Bosavern Community Farm Podcast Twist & Sprout.
    This podcast is a short introduction to us here at the community market farm in West Cornwall. Here you'll find a community bursting with energy intent on transforming the huge global food and wellness issues we face by creating networks linking local solutions. It is through this podcast we aim to reach a local and global community of solution based attitudes and share our findings as we work to better our way of life on the planet and for the planet. Subscribe so we may join arms in creating positive change.
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    1 分