Grazing School

Grazing School logo: a gold line drawing of a cow and a sheep Grazing School is run by Caroline Grindrod with Helen and James Rebanks

Grazing School

About your hosts

Grazing School is run by Caroline Grindrod with Helen and James Rebanks, on Helen and James’s fell farm in the north-east of the Lake District.

Caroline Grindrod is the founder of Roots of Nature and Wilderculture, and the originator of the ROOTED Framework. She is a consultant in regenerative livestock and food systems, an accredited professional in Holistic Management, with a background in hill farming.

Helen and James Rebanks. James is a Lakeland hill farmer and the author of English Pastoral and The Shepherd’s Life. Helen is the author of The Farmer’s Wife.

Caroline Grindrod, and James Rebanks with his sheep

Content

Learn from and on a farm undergoing a transition from traditional land management to nature-friendly farming and habitat restoration, through practical examples of regenerative approaches to farming and an explanation of the reasons behind them.

James Rebanks with his flock
Herdwick sheep on the fell
Caroline Grindrod with her dogs in the heather

Day 1

Seeing the conditions

Why regeneration
The farm as an ecosystem
The Elemental Conditions (Water, Earth, Air, Fire), read in the field
Whole System Function and complexity
The Red Flag Process

Day 2

Grazing in practice

The principles of regenerative grazing
Reading the sward (growth, plant ID, Brix)
Grazing in action
Planning your grazing
James Rebanks at a drystone wall
One day

Genetics Day

With Rob Havard of Phepson Angus and James Rebanks

A low-input system needs livestock that thrive on forage with little supplementary feed and few routine medicines. That takes the right genetics.

This day builds a genetic selection strategy for your own farm: selecting for fertility, spotting the hard-working cows that pay the bills, visual appraisal, why epigenetics matter in low-input systems, sourcing the right seed stock, and breeding your way to lower costs.

Register interest Next dates: to be announced.
Genetics Day: Herdwick sheep, native cattle, Rob Havard teaching, and James Rebanks with a Herdwick tup

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