Nature Friendly Farming Podcast

Nature Friendly Farming Podcast

Ben Eagle, Will Evans, Cormac Dolan

Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Highly Active
Since Sep 2020
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
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feeds.simplecast.com

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About This Podcast

Join us as we explore nature-friendly farming with our NFFN staff and farmer members, discussing how they are tackling climate change, biodiversity recovery and sustainable food production. This includes new podcasts as well as previous episodes hosted by Ben Eagle and Will Evans. #RethinkFarming

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Recent Episodes

S4E1 Farmers already innovate - So what’s missing? (NFFN Northern Ireland)

May 28, 2026 44m

The new season of the Nature Friendly Farming Podcast is dedicated to exploring the big issues around agriculture in Northern Ireland, in association with Danske Bank and recorded at its headquarters…

S3 Farmers and Facilitators: How you can tackle the climate crisis on a local level

Oct 06, 2023 33m Bonus

In this bonus episode we focus on the question of how best to tackle the big climate issues of our time on a practical local level?Hosts Will Evans and Ben Eagle are joined by three guests – Jenny…

S3E8 Profitability of Sustainable Agriculture with Sue Pritchard - Fewer Inputs Leaves More Room For Profit and Nature

Oct 03, 2022 29m

Ben and Will are joined by Sue Pritchard, Chief Executive of The Food Farming & Countryside Commission (FFCC). The FFCC is an independent UK charity whose mission is to find radical and practical…

S3E7 Landscape Approaches with Jenny Phelps - Farming Together For Bigger, Better Outcomes

May 31, 2022 37m

Ben and Will are joined by Jenny Phelps MBE who is a senior farm conservation advisor for the Gloucestershire Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) and guest lecturer at the Royal Agricultural…

S3E6 Working with the Landscape with Nikki Yoxall - Agroecology, Agroforestry & The Wee Mob

Feb 25, 2022 32m

Ben and Will head to Aberdeenshire to speak to first-generation farmer, grazier and NFFN Scotland Steering Group member Nikki Yoxall. From agroecology to agroforestry, Nikki shares how an…

S3E5 Keeping It Local with Helen Keys - Growing Flax for Linen & Farmer-Led Innovation

Feb 18, 2022 32m

Ben and Will head to County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to talk about all aspects of food quality with farmer, Helen Keys, and to hear about her exciting business, SourceGrow, a platform that helps…

S3E4 Keeping Nature in the Family with Aylwin Pillai - Agroecology, Changing Subsidies & The Future of Land Use

Feb 11, 2022 29m

In this episode, Ben & Will speak with Aylwin Pillai, an environmental lawyer and partner in family-run Kinclune Estate and Organic Farm in Angus, Scotland. Aylwin shares her family's farming…

S3E3 A Wake Up Call with Sam Kenyon - Flash Floods & Natural Management Solutions

Jan 18, 2022 22m

In this episode, we focus on the water section of NFFN’s ‘Rethink Farming’ report by speaking to Sam Kenyon in North Wales. Sam farms next to the River Elway in Denbighshire and we hear all about how…

S3E2 It's a Can of Worms with Will Scale - Good Soil Function & The Impact on Farm Business

Dec 05, 2021 32m

For World Soil Day, Ben and Will are digging into all things SOIL with William Scale, a farmer with 20 years experience of no-tillage farming in Pembrokeshire. They dive into the ground beneath our…

S3E1 If You Build It, They Will Come with Patrick Barker - COP26 & Bringing Biodiversity Back

Nov 23, 2021 33m

The NFFN podcast is back! And for the first episode of series three, Ben and Will talk to arable farmer and NFFN steering group member, Patrick Barker, all about the incredible range of environmental…

S2E8 The Isle of Diversification

Apr 21, 2021 26m

In this final episode of the second series of the podcast Ben Eagle and Will Evans meet Anthony Curwen who is Managing Director of Quex Park in Kent. They learn about how Anthony's business changed…

S2E7 Nothing is off limits

Apr 07, 2021 35m

In this episode Ben and Will are once again visiting Scotland to speak to farmer and conservationist Michael Clarke in Dumfriesshire. They hear all about his long journey into farming in his own…

S2E6 In Clover We Trust

Mar 17, 2021 20m

In our latest podcast episode Ben and Will head to north Wales to speak to Gethin Owen who farms 150 acres near to the coast there. Among other things they discuss the benefits of leaving winter…

S2E5 Hope for the Future

Mar 03, 2021 29m

Hosts Ben and Will once again head over to beautiful Northern Ireland to talk to arable farmer David Sandford about his lifetime of effort to improve nature and biodiversity on his farm on the shores…

S2E4 Above us only Skye

Feb 17, 2021 26m

Hosts Ben Eagle and Will Evans meet NFFN's Scotland Vice-Chair Phil Knott and learn about crofting and Phil's plan for the future as well as focusing on climate change resilience.

S2E3 You’ve goat to be kidding me!

Feb 03, 2021 22m

In this series we are focussing on the road to COP26 and speaking to farmers who are undertaking work to tackle the climate crisis in their own ways. In this episode Ben and Will head to Northern…

S2E2 Becoming a Climate Resilient Farm

Jan 20, 2021 27m

In this series we are focusing on the road to COP26 and speaking to farmers who are undertaking work to tackle the climate crisis in their own ways. In this episode Ben and Will speak to Welsh farmer…

S2E1 Connecting People, Nature, and Food

Jan 06, 2021 33m

Where better to start the second series of the NFFN Podcast than with the man behind it all - Martin Lines? We discuss the changes he’s made on his farm in Cambridgeshire and how they've had a…

S1E8 Nature - An enterprise in it’s own right

Dec 16, 2020 31m

Hosts Ben Eagle and Will Evans travel to County Armagh in Northern Ireland to meet arable farmer Simon Best, where they talk about how he sells his crops to local businesses, how green waste and…

S1E7 Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape

Dec 02, 2020 36m

Hosts Ben Eagle and Will Evans meet farmer, acclaimed author, and member of the NFFN Scotland steering group, Patrick Laurie, to talk all about his farm in Galloway, his deep connections to the area,…

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