Tales from Five Acre Community Farm
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -Various chats about growing, community farms, people who are involved in the Community Supported Agriculture movement and more
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Episodes
Episode 16 - 2019 Weather
January 01, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBWe are British so of course, we need to talk about the weather particularly when it has been so extreme and been effecting farming so much. Sorry for any weird noises we are still getting used to the new recorder and how much background it picks up.
episode 15 - Farm Hack
September 05, 2019 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBThis episode we discuss what has been going on over the summer, explain why this episode took so long to come out and tell you all about the Farm Hack Becca went to as well as details of an upcoming event CAWR are running some of you might like to come to.
episode 14 - what's on around Coventry and Rugby
July 17, 2019 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBWe talk about ER, transition towns and some of the various events and activities going on in the area as well as our plans to set up a new farm which we need support to achieve.
Episode 13 - Visiting Canalside Local Food
July 08, 2019 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBCanalside Local Food is another CSA near us who helped us get set up when we first started, so we went to visit them and had a chat with a variety of people there.
Episode 12 Francis Rayns and CAWR research on the field
June 23, 2019 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBWe talk with Francis about the various practical research projects which we are running on the farm with CAWR. What they are, what they are trying to achieve and how they are done and well as limitations on the research and where they sit in a wider range of research being done around Europe.
Episode 11 - Becca, Esther and Rachel.
June 05, 2019 08:00 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBThis episode is about who we are as individuals, what makes us tick and a discussion about women in farming. As well as the normal update about what is happening on the farm.
Episode 10 - Social Impact ToolKit Project with CAWR
May 28, 2019 16:00 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBDiscussing the Social Impact ToolKit Project with Luke Owen from CAWR ( Coventry University's Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience) This is a research project we have been working with them on for a couple of years along with other community growing project to find ways to quantify the benefits of projects like ours in ways that can be presented to policy makers and others.
Episode 9 - listeners Questions and Zero Waste
May 21, 2019 01:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBAnswering questions that we have been asked and discussing what zero waste is and specifically how we deal with plastic use
Episode 8 - Meet Jo
April 29, 2019 15:00 - 18 minutes - 8.68 MBThis episode we update on what is going on at the farm and interview Jo who is a founding member of the the farm and has been active in helping to run it from the start.
episode 7 - Soil Health
April 21, 2019 22:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBAll about soil health, green manures and other methods to improve your soil
Episode 6 - Growing at home
April 14, 2019 10:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBToday we are discussing how you can grow at home, how that differs from the farm and a few tips from us on what to do.
Episode 5 - The Ethos of Five acre Farm
April 08, 2019 23:00 - 15 minutes - 7.02 MBWhy do we do what we do.
Episode 4 - Water and Irrigation
March 29, 2019 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.18 MBIn which we talk about water, how we use it , what we irrigate and so on.
Episode 1 - Introducing the Farm
March 21, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 2.94 MBOur very first podcast so forgive any mistakes.. We introduce Five Acre Community Farm and give you some background on who we are and how we started out
episode 3 - Seeds
March 21, 2019 04:00 - 15 minutes - 7.05 MBtalking seeds, which ones we grow and why
Episode 2 - Seasonal Growing and the Hungry gap
March 21, 2019 04:00 - 7 minutes - 3.53 MBIn our second episode we discuss seasonal growing, the ups and downs and what and when is the Hungry gap?