Soil degradation, climate change, economic fragility and fragmentation – these are all challenges that rural areas in South West England are facing – and the cultivation of natural fibre crops, flax in particular, has been re-emerging as a practical and place-based response to these issues, rooted in the heritage and history of the region. Back READ MORE
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The Summer of Seed – Hemp Field Trial report 2023
A grant from the Dorset National Landscape Farming in Protected Landscapes Fund (FiPL) has helped Wessex Community Assets Ltd (WCA) work with a group of West Dorset Farmers to explore the logistics of Hemp as a break crop and undertake field trials in growing, harvesting and processing Hemp. With more farmers involved and another year READ MORE