SLM Database

Rotation program: Diverse rotation of at least five crops on farm level for more biodiversity and less intensive cultivation practice

• Compiler: Sabine Reinsch
• 10/08/2019 5:18 p.m.

Bokashi is a soil amendment formed by fermenting clippings of vegetation. It helps to increase soil organic matter content in fruit orchards.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/06/2023 4:52 p.m.

Willow and hazelnut trees have been planted in strips on arable land to reduce windspeed, decrease the leaching of nutrients and attract and support natural enemies of crops pests.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/27/2023 2:21 p.m.

Flower strips are established on arable crop access paths to attract and support natural enemies to control and decrease crop pests

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 08/15/2019 6:04 p.m.

The organic matter content of arable land is increased by spreading mushroom compost ("champost"), growing green manure during the winter season, and reducing tillage

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 08/15/2019 3:57 p.m.

Create strips with flowering plants in the margins of arable fields.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/09/2019 5:23 p.m.

A mixture of silvopastoral agroforestry approaches, including extensive and rotational cattle grazing around trees, provide benefits for biodiversity as well as leaf fodder for cattle, edible fruits and nuts, and wood fuel.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/14/2022 12:38 p.m.

Use of diverse herbal leys in dairy production. Provides resilient forage that improves soil health and provides a habitat for biodiversity within a rotational grazing system

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 09/03/2021 12:31 p.m.

The addition of organic matter, such as compost, to soils on farms can enhance soil health with benefits for soil organisms, soil structure, carbon sequestration and plant production.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/01/2021 5:19 p.m.

Silvopastoral Agroforestry in a natural farmed environment – This is an alley cropping system with rows of Perry pears and timber trees inter-planted with coppiced willow and alder. The pasture in between the rows is mob grazed with young dairy stock.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/09/2019 1:39 p.m.