A film produced by Cornwall Climate
Care
Date: Wednesday 19th March
Time: 7pm (doors open 6.30)
Venue: Crediton Methodist Church EX17 3AW
Entry by donation (suggested £4)
Refreshments available
Food for Thought looks at the undeniable impacts of modern
animal agriculture as well as some of the incredible Cornish
initiatives underway to mitigate them - and the role that
regenerative farming could play in combating climate change
while producing nutritious food. Following the film there will
be Q&A discussion led by local farmers David Govier, Sam
Bullingham and James Dyke.
Bios:
David Govier - farmer
Langridge Farm is situated just outside Crediton.
Langridge has been farmed by the Govier family since
1969 and is now run by David. The farm consists of traditional
mixed organic land split between vegetable production, livestock,
mainly sheep and mixed managed woodland; 160 acres of land in
total rotation produces 25 acres of veg annually. The farm
started converting to Organic in 1983 and was all fully organic by
the growing season of 1988.
Sam Bullingham - farmer
Taw River Dairy stocks over fifty Jersey Cows which are 100%
pasture fed: no concentrated feed or antibiotics are used and
calves stay with their mothers until they finish suckling. The farm
produces, pasteurizes and processes milk and ice-cream on site
using milk from their small herd of pasture-fed Jersey and Jersey
cross cows. Low intensity farming methods mean their 400-acre farm
traps more carbon in the soil than it releases.
James Dyke - Associate Professor in Earth System Science at
University of Exeter
James led the cross-department programme MSc Global
Sustainability Solutions. In 2019 he was appointed
Assistant Director of the Global
Systems Institute. In 2022 and 2023 James served as the
lead academic for the 2023 British Science Festival. James is
the environmental columnist for The i Paper and has written for The
Ecologist, The Guardian, The Independent and The Conversation. His
book Fire
Storm and Flood: the violence of climate change was published
in 2021.