Ben Rodgers is a Farm Advisor for Catchment Sensitive Farming and helps farmers deliver environmentally sustainable businesses through the provision of specialist advice and funding mechanisms such as Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farming Incentive( SFI). Over the last 5 years Ben has coordinated the White Peak Herbal Ley trials which aims to identify the best ways of integrating herbal leys into intensive grassland systems within the Derbyshire White Peak.
In this post, Catchment Sensitive Farming Adviser Ben Rodgers shares an example of nature and farming-friendly solutions driving agricultural transformation in the Peak District.