In this episode, we share a recording of a panel discussion on Farming and Water held at the Groundswell Outreach regenerative farming meet up at the Falkland estate in Fife, last July. The session explores how landscape-level, regenerative management can help us adapt to the climate-induced extremes of floods and droughts. It also touches on the barriers to implementing such an approach.

The panel was led by Ian Davis and included Alister Leggatt, Lyn White, and Cees Kamp and Anthony Ellis.

This is the second in a short series focusing on flooding and adaptation stories this month.

Credit

Recording and edit: Kaska Hempel

Music extracts from “Song Shall Be Our Measure”, by Jessica Kerr, performed by herself, Kirsty Orton and Aaron McGregor

Poem written and performed by Sophie Cooke “The overpromised land”

Both works were commissioned as one of the creative inputs into the Scottish Ecological Design Association’s (SEDA) session on integrated land use at GO Falkland.

Resources

Groundswell https://groundswellag.com/

GO Falkland https://falklandestate.co.uk/go-falkland/

Videos from GO Falkland 2023 and 2024 https://www.youtube.com/@GOFalkland/videos

Video of SEDA’s session on Solving the Land Use Jigsaw Puzzle at GO Falkland 2024 https://youtu.be/8TxnHG9JwU8?si=RcNYuRmVXMDlU_JP

Integrated Trees Network - Scottish Forestry https://www.forestry.gov.scot/support-regulations/farm-woodlands/integrating-trees-network

Affinity Water https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/

“Water is Love” film https://www.waterislovefilm.org/

5 Principles of Regenerative Agriculture https://groundswellag.com/principles-of-regenerative-agriculture/