An organic farm in East Yorkshire will welcome over a hundred people from all over the UK to a prestigious event on the farming calendar.

Carr House Farm, at Foston on the Wolds, will host the National Organic Conference (NOC25) for the first time, on Wednesday, June 11. Attendees will be those already involved in organic agriculture or who are interested in organic farming methods.

Carr House Farm is also home to the well-known Side Oven Bakery – an on-farm organically certified bakery. Established for over 20 years, the bakery has been a very successful farm diversification and continues to thrive using the very same core principles of organic sustainability it set out with.

Hester Webb, who oversees all the farm’s educational visits, is keen to show visitors around and explain their approach. She said: “There aren’t that many organic farmers in Yorkshire, so it’s important that we’re able to showcase what we’re doing.

“In everything that we do, we’re farming with nature and working in a way that’s sustainable for the environment. In recent years, there’s been a growing interest in regenerative farming and I’m hoping that people will take something away from NOC and consider farming in a different way at home.”

During the morning of the event, attendees can expect a warm welcome and a fascinating insight into how the Sellers family run their organic farming enterprise alongside the on-farm bakery, juicery and mill. Situated in a designated Site of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI), the farm’s 192 hectares are located on an upper headwater of the River Hull.

The adoption of organic farming methods and involvement in an environmental stewardship scheme have created an abundance of wildlife in and around the clear running chalk stream. In addition to the extensive arable enterprise, Caroline Sellers opened the Side Oven Bakery in 2003 to utilise the high-quality milling wheat and ancient grains that are grown and processed on-site using a traditional stoneground mill.

Provenance is a family passion, with their commercial range of produce extending to bread, pastries, muesli, granola, heritage apple juices from the farm orchard and soft fruit preserves and cordials. The afternoon of the conference will move to the Stringer family’s High Callis Farm at Bishop Wilton, near Pocklington.

Run by third-generation tenants, Mike and Kate Stringer, the business encompasses 345 hectares farmed organically, with some acreage under conventional management. The site which encompasses 60 suckler cows, 500 breeding ewes and arable, offers a very different set-up to that of Carr House Farm.

The event is open to anyone with an interest in learning more about organic farming methods. For more information and to buy tickets please visit Eventbrite.

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