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Listening to the ground pays off on Northumberland farm

At a farm walk hosted by Tom Fairfax at Mindrum Farm, Northumberland, held as part of the Agroecology at Scale Programme, he discussed his transition to regenerative farming

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Listening to the ground pays off on Northumberland farm

Tom Fairfax describes his farm as a ‘bossy aunt', implying that it is usually right, when you take the time to listen to it. A decade ago, this is what he decided to do at the family's Mindrum 51AVÊÓÆµat...

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