ESTABLISHING & DELIVERING

 RESILIENT & SUSTAINABILE SUPPLY CHAINS

A collaborative landscape-based programme in partnership with utilities companies and supply chain operators.

Offering an incentive for UK Farmers to become net emissions sinks, promoting environmental regeneration through climate smart practices.

Empowering farmers with climate-smart practices to boost resilience, improve soil, protect water, and capture carbon – helping businesses thrive in a changing world.

Future Food Solutions takes a whole-system approach to driving cultural change in agriculture, recognising that lasting transformation requires working across multiple interconnected and complex systems.

By integrating ecological, economic, agronomic, policy, scientific and academic perspectives, the programmes ran by Future Food Solutions ensures that climate-smart agricultural principles are not just implemented in isolation but understood within the broader agricultural landscape.

This holistic approach enables farmers to make informed, sustainable decisions that balance productivity, environmental stewardship, and economic viability while navigating the evolving challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing sector.

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Supply Chain Resilience

By connecting growers directly with brands, we strengthen supply chains and help businesses secure stable, climate-resilient supply while supporting farm profitability.

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Drive Long Lasting Change

Empowering farmers with regenerative practices, strengthens supply chain partnerships, and uses data to create lasting, scalable sustainability.

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Environmental Impact

Boost soil health, reduce nutrient runoff, support biodiversity, and promotes regenerative farming practices to create measurable, positive environmental outcomes.

Good Soil Guide

A guide to sustainable soil management, written by farmers, for farmers.

Developed in partnership with Yorkshire, the Good Soil Guide is a free online resource that helps farmers improve soil health using practical and sustainable farming methods. It provides clear guidance on soil management, crop practices, and techniques that support productive and environmentally friendly farming.

The Farmer Library

A growing collection of video interviews featuring farmers sharing their on-farm experiences, lessons learned, and success stories, with the goal of farmers learning from other farmers.

Guy Leonard coats his seeds with a home-brewed compost extract, creating a “microbe brew” to give seedlings a strong start. The process involves stabilising and sieving the microbes, then mixing them with molasses and fish before combining with the seed. This method is effective and less labor-intensive than moving large volumes of liquid around the farm. As soon as the first root emerges, the beneficial microbes are already in place.

Guy has observed interesting results with nutrient availability. Fields that regularly receive slurry show high phosphate indices, while fields without slurry are lower. Testing leaf tissue shows an inverse pattern: where soil P is high, P in the leaves can actually be low, and vice versa. This suggests that when no inorganic P is applied near the seed, soil and microbes work together to make phosphate available naturally. In contrast, if inorganic P is applied, the plant relies on that source and doesn’t engage its natural microbial partnerships.

This highlights how integrating microbial activity with soil management can improve nutrient efficiency and plant health.

#sustainablefarming #sustainablelandscapes #soilhealth #regenerativefarming #organicmatter #RegenerativeAgriculture #farminglife #covercrops #climate #profitability #climatesmartagriculture #soilcarbon #nutrients

Microbe Brews, Natural Phosphate & Better Nutrient Efficiency | Guy Leonard (Episode 4)

Last week we were delighted to host three conferences across our Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire groups, bringing farmers together for a morning of learning, discussion and shared experience.

This year’s conferences focused on driving open discussion around soil health, water quality, building land resilience and strengthening farm profitability — recognising that these priorities are intrinsically linked for the future of sustainable farming.

The day began over breakfast before hearing from our valued partners, Yorkshire Water and Anglian Water, who set the scene and highlighted the importance of collaboration in protecting water resources while supporting productive farming businesses.

We were pleased to welcome Jonathan Holmes of Lordington Park Agronomy, who shared insightful and practical guidance on grassweed control within a minimum tillage system — an approach closely aligned with improving soil structure and long-term resilience.

A real highlight of the morning was hearing directly from our programme farmers. Guy Leonard of RH Leonard in Holderness, James Brown of SH Brown, Winteringham Farms in North Lincolnshire, and Jonathan Hodgson of Great Newsome Farm near Hull spoke openly about their farming journeys, offering honest reflections and practical advice on balancing environmental delivery with commercial performance.

The event concluded with interactive roundtable discussions featuring a panel of experts — Tim Furbank, Anna Reynolds (Oakbank) and Linda Bratley (Rural Business Services) — alongside our speakers. The open forum created valuable opportunities for questions, shared challenges and practical takeaways.

To round off the morning, we celebrated success at our annual awards ceremony, presenting honours including the Cover Crop of the Year trophy and other programme awards — followed, of course, by a well-earned pie lunch!

Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to such constructive conversations.

We now look forward to welcoming farmers to our summer programme of farm walks and BBQs.

#SoilHealth #WaterQuality #FarmResilience #FarmProfitability #SustainableFarming #Yorkshire #NorthLincolnshire

Sustainable Landscapes Programme: Growing Resilient Farms Through Soil, Water and Profitability

Mike Powley has introduced multi-species cover crops on the farm, including mustards, radishes, phacelia, sunflowers, rye, buckwheat, and other diverse mixes - inspired by the principles of Gabe Brown.

The cover crop, drilled as a catch crop on 7th September, is designed to produce a large biomass to feed the soil and support soil biology over the winter. Following his winter barley, Mike usually plants in late July or early August, aiming to keep living roots in the ground as much as possible.

Once established, the crop produces 40–50 tonnes per hectare of fresh matter, which is rolled down with a Uni drill before beans are sown into it. This approach follows Gabe Brown’s core principles: maintaining soil armour, minimising tillage, and keeping roots growing year-round - all key for building carbon, enhancing soil biology, and improving long-term soil health.

#sustainablefarming #sustainablelandscapes #soilhealth #regenerativefarming #organicmatter #RegenerativeAgriculture #farminglife #covercrops #climate #profitability #climatesmartagriculture #soilcarbon #gabebrown

Soil Armour, Living Roots & Carbon Building | Regenerative Farming in Practice with Mike Powley

Our clients

We work with farmers, growers, environmental stakeholders, suppliers and food & drink brands throughout the UK and internationally.

“Future Foods Solutions, through the Sustainable Landscapes Programme have been pivotal in delivering cultural change in farming practices. Their approach of demonstrating real world benefit to farm businesses through meaningful engagement and support, is enabling the improvement we are looking for in some of our most sensitive catchments.”

Paul Speight

Hydrogeologist, Yorkshire Water

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