Farmers and landowners are essential to the maintenance of the Levels. The Living Levels team is working on a funding bid that will support nature-friendly and sustainable farming practices – and we want to hear from farmers in the area. Bring your ideas to our free workshop.

What to expect:

• Inspiration for farming with nature

• Exciting updates from the Living Levels team

• Afternoon tea

• Your chance to help create funding priorities for sustainable farming on the Levels for the next five years.

Further details:

Our Guest Speaker will be Emma Douglas of Gower Meadow Beef, who farms Welsh Black and Dexter cattle and undertakes conservation grazing. She is the Wales Facilitator for Pasture for Life and is on the Wales steering panel of the Nature Friendly Farming Network.

We also hope to inspire farmers with a couple of short films, one about farming on the Levels that was created as part of the successful Sustaining the Gwent Levels Sustainable Management Scheme in 2023, and one on sustainable dairy farming.

There will also be an introduction to JustLanz, a UK-wide research project on making net zero fair for farmers.

The main focus of the afternoon will be time to gather and discuss your ideas for what could and should be prioritised in a bid for funding for sustainable and nature-friendly farming during the next five years. We have a couple of ideas, but we would like to know what is important to you.

Booking, attending and contributing:

The afternoon is free, but please book a space below before midday Tuesday 8th April.

Parking is limited, so please arrange a lift if possible.

If you can’t make it to the workshop but have an idea you would like to share with us, please email it to info@livinglevels.org.uk