FLOURISHING FUTURES | A Collaborative approach
Collaboration with people and with the land is at the heart of what we do. Here are some of the businesses, initiatives and organisations we are currently working with.
FS Watts
Most of our arable land is cultivated by Nick and Roger Watts, with whom we are working to introduce minimum till, cover cropping and other regenerative farming methods across the farms.
Alde Valley Spring Festival
Farm partner Jason Gathorne-Hardy is funder and host of The Alde Valley Spring Festival at White House Farm. The festival celebrates the vital importance of the visual arts, heritage crafts, rural writing, local foods and wildlife to contemporary life. Galloper-Sands is the new online art gallery for Festival.
Studio Fabre Hardy
Studio Fabre Hardy arts practice is enabling us to catalyse and document the transition 10 acre field, West Peace, to nature-based approach rooted in collective land care. They are sharing the project entitled For the Love of a Field through their international alliances with the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University and the Sustainability Institute in South Africa, .
“For the Love of a Field documents and communicate with others the value of truly collaborative approaches to regenerating the soil and our food both for planetary wellbeing and for our own human flourishing.”
Dr Miche Fabre Lewin, Studio Fabre Hardy
Suffolk Environmental Project
In July 2021, we began a collaboration with the Suffolk Environmental Project as part of our on-going For the Love of a Field research initiative with Studio Fabre Hardy. Suffolk Environmental Project have generously sponsored the planting of a deep-rooting organic wildflower and grass mix as well as a forest food hedge along the western boundary of the field.
Hodmedods
In 2021, we were proud to collaborate with our contract partners, FS Watts, to produce the first harvest of wrinkled peas for Hodemedods.
“These wonderfully wrinkly peas have a distinctively sweet and grassy flavour. Their especially high levels of resistant starch provide excellent nourishment for our gut flora.” Hodmedods
RSPB
In 2021, we joined forces with RSPB as part of their Turtle Dove Test and Trials to create a series of trial plots near to the Nature Reserve and surrounding water bodies and scrub areas.
“Great Glemham Farms is one of the best places in Suffolk that I've seen on a landscape scale to help turtle doves and nightingales due to the large amount of suitable nesting habitat on the farm and in the surrounding landscape.”
Kerry Skellorn, RSPB
WildEast
Great Glemham Farms parter Argus Hardy co-founded Wild East in 2020. Since then, Great Glemham Farms have pledged 20% of our land for nature conservation and are actively exploring ways to increase biodiversity within hedgerows, woodland and grazed pastures, as well as within our arable farming system.
AGRenewables
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
"AGR worked closely with Great Glemham Farms to ensure that the 20 MW solar farm we developed at Great Glemham delivers maximum biodiversity benefits alongside renewable energy generation – making this one of the greenest solar farms in the country."
Adrian French, Head of Planning AGRenewables
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
Farm Partner Caroline Cranbrook is Co-founder and President of the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival. We are supporters of the festival and last year proud providers of autumn produce from the Glemham Walled Garden for the Festival Supper cooked by Peter Harrison.
