Ben Eagle is an environmental and agricultural writer and has written for The Guardian, Countrysquire Magazine and Rewilding Britain, among other publications. He blogs regularly on his website www.thinkingcountry.com. He is also the Conservation Editor of Farmland Magazine and produces and presents the Meet the Farmers podcast. When not writing he co-manages his family’s coastal mixed farm in Essex with his father. He also sits on the committee of A Focus on Nature, the UK’s largest youth conservation network. You can follow him on twitter or instagram @benjy_eagle
A Future for Farming: Growing Engagement with Sustainability in Agricultural Education
Sustainable agriculture needs to be integrated throughout the entire learning system if all our future farmers are to embrace the sustainability agenda. Young people are a sponge for information and what they are told now will impact on how they farm in the future.
June 23, 2017
Young farmers, Brexit and Future Prospects
While there remains a good deal of uncertainty, it is clear to me that Brexit provides an opportunity to advocate for a more sustainable approach to agriculture, to boost its profile on what will be a new national policy agenda for food and farming.
September 21, 2016