LEAF 'Speak Out' Course

Here we are in Leics at the LEAF 'Speak Out' Course, to which I was kindly invited.

I have to say it was a most enjoyable course and I would recommend it to anyone who has the chance to participate in one.

Two days, with 12 farmers, all from different backgrounds, all with different skills, and from different farms, all with a common cause - to tell the story of farming, to serenade the industry, and to sing the praises of farmers and what they do..... bring food to the Nations plate.

Here we have Hugh (affectionately known to us as 'Vegetable man') telling us all about his parsnips, which Anthony is holding (affectionately known to us as 'the Gentleman Farmer'), In the background we have Roly from LEAF, and Fay, who's farm won the prettiest Farm title.

This was the part in the day which we had all taken in a 'prop' to tell a story of our own farms. Hugh was telling us that the parsnips he had brought would not be up to scratch for the supermarkets and that they had a huge pile on his farm which would go to animal feed and this was one of the reasons why food is getting more and more expensive because there is such a lot of it wasted.

I certainly valued my time in the course and the knowledge of the other students around me. I hope I can now put some of the brilliant notions I have come away with into practice, I would recommend this course to any one who wants to get our food, farming, environment message over to the general public.

see http://www.leafuk.org/ for further details on LEAF's work

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