Listening to your Weeds: Soil Lessons from the Field
March '26
Chris Maughan is an Assistant Professor of Agroecological Knowledge and Innovation Systems at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University. He led our Webinar on weeds as bioindicators. To read notes from the webinar and to access Chris's Field Guide for Farmers, click below.
Grounded in February '26: Good Soil, Good Company
This was a relaxed and friendly gathering of people who care about soil health. Meeting at Castlebank Horticultural Centre in Lanark we met others, shared ideas, and helped shape a collective agenda for the months ahead—what we want to learn, explore, and work on together.
We began with a video of James Rebanks talking to Allen Williams to spark conversation, then we workshopped ideas for the future of the network. We were delighted to be joined by growers, farmers and soil biologists.
The event produced an excellent list of ideas to help us structure our ideas and to plan sessions to meet the greatest areas of need. We fuelled our event with plentiful organic homebaking!
Cleghorn Farm Walk Nov. '25
At the first meeting of the new Clydesdale Soil Health Group, a group of farmers and growers met at Cleghorn Farm near Lanark.
We compared soils across 6 different locations, and considered current management, context, aims and how to use tools at our disposal to increase resilience and improve productivity.
