In this session at Cultivating Wisdom Jake Freestone was in conversation with ORC’s Head of Research Dr Julia Cooper. Jake has been experimenting with living mulches since he joined an Innovative Farmers Field Lab led by the Organic Research Centre. Working collaboratively with researchers and sharing learnings with a network of farmers, Jake has managed to use them successfully within a conventional farming system. They discussed how he integrates living mulches into his crop rotation and reflected on the pros and cons of working directly with researchers and farmer networks to develop innovative methods.
