We are an independent professional research, design and consultancy practice specialising in advice on non fossil fuel dependent agricultural systems. We work with a wide range of partners including government bodies and academic institutions as well as charitable organisations and private clients.
Our work is primarily concerned with the formulation, extension and implementation of strategies to reduce structural support dependence and high emission inputs in modern agricultural systems.
We are staffed by a team of professionally qualified and experienced individuals and generally work as consulting members of project delivery teams and working partnerships.
The services we will offer to clients and other organisations are:
- Land Based livelihood Systems R&D and data generation
- Planning consultancy and liaison for land based planning applications
- Trialling and testing Crop technologies
- Low input Husbandry methods
- Horticultural Biodiversity research
- On farm renewable energy systems development and trialling
- Multivariate analysis and modelling of whole farm systems
- Low-input land use and planning consultancy
- Appraisals and working group partnerships
Current programmes include:
- Planning applications and management templates for small scale agro-environmental livelihood proposals for the Ecological Land Co-Operative.
- Generation of data for functional need assessments specific to smaller scale and labour intensive systems.
- Planning and assessment of ultra-intensive organic food production.
- Outdoor and indoor Season extension systems.
- Low input small stock systems and reciprocity within species.
- Site grown feeding systems for extensive livestock production.
- Zero energy mobile hatchery development.
- Small cropping plans and building design for Kira farm (Uganda) partnership.
- Fully extensive, semi-wild, small scale game fowl production.
- Biogas production and assimilation into horticultural systems.
- Seed guardianship and traditional varietal research.
- Permanent Agriculture systems for fruit and berry production.
- Small Woodland management training and revenue research.