Veganic Summit Day 3 Videos
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Creating a small-scale veganic farm in India
Length: 56 min.
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Join Madhavi Kolte from the non-profit Jeeva Bhavana, who is giving an on-site video tour of her veganic farm in India. She’ll share how she’s growing lentils, turmeric, millet, and more using veganic techniques, and how this serves as a model farm to help local farmers transition to plant-based methods. She’ll also show us her re-wilding project with indigenous trees in a sacred grove, show us her amazing urban fruit orchard where she’s growing lemons, guava, and papaya, plus she’ll share how she’s growing a veganic garden right on her rooftop terrace!
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Madhavi Kolte
Madhavi Kolte, an avid veganic gardener and farmer, is the Co-Founder and Director of Jeeva Bhavana Foundation, a vegan environmental non-profit based in Pune, India. She leads the foundation’s flagship project, Urvarasa, which supports Indian farmers in transitioning to sustainable veganic farming. A course on sustainable living at the Ecological Society inspired her to connect veganism with ecological preservation, motivating her to explore and promote veganic methods. Through Jeeva Bhavana, Madhavi fosters partnerships with research-based institutions in Pune to study and raise awareness about the environmental impacts of animal agriculture in India.
Learn how Madhavi is bringing plant-based farming to India through her organizations Jeeva Bhavana and Urvarasa
How 3 farmers transitioned to plant-based agriculture
Length: 2 videos: 6 min. + 16 min.
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Helping farmers transition from animal agriculture to veganic farming is key to creating a plant-based food system. And Rebecca Knowles and her team at Stockfree Farming are leading the way! They are currently assisting 20 farms in the UK and Ireland that are transitioning from animal agriculture to stockfree organic techniques, providing them with free support ranging from agricultural advice to business planning to finding end markets for their new crops. In the first short video, you’ll hear about Stockfree Farming’s vision from Rebecca. And in the second video, you’ll be taken on-site to see stockfree farms in action, and hear from 3 farmers who made the transition, including their motivations for leaving animal agriculture behind to adopt plant-based farming.
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Rebecca Knowles
Rebecca Knowles is the founder of Stockfree Farming. From a farming background, Rebecca got her degree in Agriculture from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and worked on both livestock and arable farms: “I became a farmer because I love animals. Over a decade later, I became a vegan for the same reason – I love animals!” Rebecca founded Stockfree Farming in 2020 to assist farmers and crofters throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland who are looking to transition away from livestock farming into fairer, greener livelihoods.
Learn how Rebecca and the team at Stockfree Farming are helping farmers transition to plant-based agriculture
Preserving the harvest: let’s make sauerkraut!
Length: 17 min.
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Fermentation is a wonderful way to preserve our harvests, while creating vibrant flavours. In this talk, Tamara Schiopu, author of My Vegan Farm Food, will be giving you a step-by-step demo for how to make your own sauerkraut so that you can preserve your cabbage for the winter with a delicious fermented kraut that’s a natural probiotic. From choosing your cabbage to adding the right amount of salt, this talk will get you on track for successful sauerkraut endeavors!
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Tamara Schiopu
Tamara is the author of the new cookbook My Vegan Farm Food: Stories and Recipes from Tolhurst Organic, where she shares creative field-to-fork recipes that use local crops, with ingredients that reflect the seasons. These recipes are inspired by the harvests from Tolhurst Organic, a pioneering Stockfree Organic farm in Oxfordshire, England that Tamara runs with her husband Iain Tolhurst. Tamara has a Biology degree and Master’s degree in Business Administration. In addition to co-running the farm, Tamara also supervises the Stockfree Organic Standards held by the Vegan Organic Network, through which plant-based organic farms can become Certified Stockfree Organic in the UK via the Soil Association.
Coppicing and woodchips to build soil fertility
Length: 55 min.
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Iain Tolhurst
Iain Tolhurst has been at the forefront of the UK organic farming movement for 50 years and he is an internationally renowned speaker on sustainable farming. His 8-hectare farm is Certified Stockfree Organic and produces a wide range of produce. Tolhurst Organic farm is a model of sustainability, incorporating green manures, diverse crop rotations, woodchip composts, and agroforestry practices in the vegetable system. He also pioneered woodchip substrates for propagation to move away from peat-based materials. Iain Tolhurst is the author of several books, including Growing Green.
Discover Tolhurst Organic to learn about Iain’s pioneering plant-based farm, plus check out the book Growing Green which Iain co-authored with Jenny Hall
