In Summer 2025 the GREAT Market Garden was awarded funding from Cotswold District Council to support Community Volunteering at the market garden. There are two sets of weekly volunteering sessions planned, the first lot took place in Autumn 2025, and the second lot will start in Spring 2026. Volunteers from the local community, as well as students from the RAU join together with our trained volunteer coodinator, Archie, to help harvest tomatoes, make biochar, and build bug ho

In the Summer of 2025 the GREAT Market Garden was awarded funding from Greener Gloucestershire's Community Climate Change Fund to create a composting project at our GREAT Market Garden. Work has begun working with Eddie from Rhizophillia to design a new composting system on the site and a community composting workshop is planned for Spring 2026. Our volunteer team got stuck in straight away helping to create a wind row strip along with help from Gloucestershire's Master Comp

The GREAT Market Garden adjacent to the RAU in Cirencester, Gloucestershire is seeking an experienced Head Grower to join our supportive project team, leading on the commercial element of the project. See FWAG SW's website for further details and how to apply! Deadline Monday 9th February 2026. small polytunnel and propagation

FWAG SouthWest worked with CCRI to produce these four case studies of farms on the floodplains of Gloucesteshire. Debbie manages Norton...

GREAT Zerodig Project is looking for a Head Grower for its new site located at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester and...

This document is one of three written for The GREAT Project to build a narrative for a regenerative farming future and to signpost...

This is the second report from Jonty Brunyee and Danielle Semple of FarmED, put together for the GREAT Project. It helps to map key...

Event Date: 6th September 2023 Venue: Wye Organic, Goodrich Village Hall, Goodrich, Ross on Wye, HR9 6HX Speakers Kitty Stainsby,...

Beginning early on a cool and fresh summer’s morning, a group of over 40 agroecological changemakers working across the food and farming...

National Trust tenants Jonty and Mel Brunyee farm at Conygree, where they are building up the data and experience that shows that a...

FWAG SouthWest's ELM Trial has been exploring what is needed to best help achieve the goals of the 25 Year Environment Plan. We describe...

Matt and Laura Elliott moved from Bristol to become National Trust tenants at Sandy Hill Farm. Their 'Sandy Hill Mob' (mob-grazed...

Simon and Kat Ball recently took on the tenancy of a Gloucestershire County Council-owned farm. Previously a dairy farm, they have ...

James and Katie Allen started out as landless graziers, beginning with Katie's flock of sheep for fleece and moving into conservation...

Jo Bennett farms at College Farm. His management of pedigree Holsteins take the best from high-tech innovations in dairy farming and...

Sarah and Richard Kingdom bought their small-holding recently and are starting out as new entrants to agriculture. Driven by a wish to...

Lydia and Clive Handy have transformed Lower Hampen Farm into a thriving and varied source of good food. The farm has been in the Handy...

Pasture for Life has published their report into Mob Grazing in the Cairngorms. The project was a partnership with the Park Authority,...

As part of the GREAT New Farmers Network , we've been providing FREE one-to-one support to farmers, growers and advisors taking their 1st...