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Pasture to Plate®: Farming in Harmony with Nature

Henry Edmunds Interviewed by Philip Lymbery

Saturday, 30 March 2019

4:00pm

1 hour 15 minutes

Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

£7 - £12.50

Passionate wildlife advocate and farmer Henry Edmunds explains how he has transformed his 1,000-hectare Cholderton estate in Wiltshire to balance demands of modern agriculture with preservation of the countryside.

Edmunds runs his estate on a guiding principle of sustainable farming. Areas of high value for wildlife have been protected and other areas are managed in a way to harmonise with wildlife. The farm is fully organic. Animals are fed almost entirely on food grown on the estate. The estate is on the verge of becoming completely carbon neutral. The management system has created extra employment opportunities for local people and rare and threatened plant and animal species have thrived. A short film about the estate produced by Pasturepromise.TV, A walk on the Wild Side,  will be shown at this event.

Edmunds took over the Cholderton Estate in 1975 following the death of his father. He is a winner of the RSPB Telegraph Nature of Farming Award, a finalist in the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards, and a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Here he talks to chief executive of Compassion in World farming Philip Lymbery.

This event is part of a series under the banner Pasture to Plate® that look at the environmental and health benefits of raising food on pasture and getting it to the consumer quickly through a short supply chain.

This event will last one hour 15 mins.

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Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Goldmoney Properties Felicity Bryan Associates Voltaire Foundation Confucius Institute Critchleys Accountants to the festival Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Sotheby’s Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Embassy of the Dominican Republic Embassy of the Dominican Republic Iberia British Airways elBullifoundation Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Oxford Mathematics Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK University of Oxford The Telegraph Festival media partner Other donors Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture David Isaac Ian and Carol Sellars Martin and Elise Becket Smith Tim and Marion Stevenson Miles Young Jim Mellon Pusey House Founded 1884 Harris Manchester College Harris Manchester College founded 1893 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Yale University Press London The Oxford Times Windrush Group Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership CAV Oxford Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies The Sheldonian Theatre University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design MACROVegan Human Ecology Project New Dutch Writing Conference Oxford BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner OX magazine Ox in a Box