Update – Getting More From Grazing event
On February 17th, Forth Rivers Trust co-facilitated with Pasture for Life a Getting More From Grazing farm event hosted at Balbirnie Home Farms in Fife. The event brought together local farmers and land managers through the Leven Catchment Farmer Network and those not in the network but interested in learning more about adaptive grazing management systems.
Learning more about adaptive grazing and how it works at Balbirnie Home Farm
The event explored how observation, adaptability and intentional livestock management can be applied to grazing livestock systems through talks by Jamie Jack from Pasture for Life and Johnnie Balfour from Balbirnie Home Farms in the morning. In the afternoon there was a farm walk led by Johnnie, Laura Burnett & Grace Winkler who manage the cattle on the farm to see how the adaptive livestock management system is working for the farm.
Adaptive grazing in action at Balbirnie Home Farm.
The event was funded through the Leven Catchment Collective and Scottish Agroecological Partnership.
If you are interested in joining the Leven Catchment Farmer Network to connect with local farmers in the area and join free events such as this one, then sign up here – Leven Catchment Farmer Network Sign Up The next on farm event will be on Different Fertilisers and their advantages and disadvantages in early April.
Learn more about the farmer network on our website – https://catchmentcollective.scot/farmer-network/