Sustainability Researcher at Riverford Organic Farmers 👩🌾 PhD in Integrated Pest Management from Warwick Crop Centre 🫘🌱🪰
Exeter, England
Joined February 2019
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Join us at #ORFC25 to hear about the progress that is being made to remove peat from plant propagation at multiple scales in the food system 🌱
⭐️Mary Dimambro
⭐️Emma Restorick
⭐️Audrey Litterick
⭐️Francis Raynes
⭐️Sebastian Kipp
📍Court Room
🕘9am
@Riverford @IFarmers
Thrilled to be chairing IPM: Challenges, Opportunities & Synergies tomorrow at #ORFC25! 🐞🪰
Join me and a brilliant panel of experts:
🌟 Rosemary Collier
🌟 Tom Pope
🌟 Andy Dibben
📍 Council Chamber
⌚️ 4 PM, 9th Jan
@Warwickpestnews @ipm_tom @FarmShopOrganic @Riverford @ORFC
Dr Rebecca Bragg retweeted
CAWR researchers working to phase-out peat in horticulture met with representatives of the Peat-free Partnership, to share details of our work. The partnership's a coalition of horticultural businesses & environmental NGOs with the goal of ending the commercial trade in peat.
Our latest update on our collaborative project with @CoventryCAWR, @organicplantsuk & @cambridgeeco 🌱🌍🥬
@PFpartnership #endpeatsales #peatlands #peatfree
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/…
Dr Rebecca Bragg retweeted
We are thrilled to share the in-person and online programmes for 2025's Oxford Real Farming Conference!
Spread over 9 venues in the heart of Oxford and with over 400 speakers from the UK and around the world, 2025's conference is not one to miss: orfc.org.uk/orfc-2025-in-per…
#OrganicSeptember open day at Shillingford Organics today 🥕tractor trailer rides, fresh veg & and guess the weight of the squash competition! 👨🌾
@SoilAssociation @shillorganics1
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Earthworm ecology to agri-tech - learn from the experts!
Want to find out more about:
🪱Earthworm biology & ecology
🔉Bioacoustics
🚜The use of biopesticides
Join our new LEAF Innovation Centre online launch on the 18th! @Warwickpestnews:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Dr Rebecca Bragg retweeted
🥬Francis Rayns, researcher on the #fieldlab testing the benefits of #striptill in #horticulture, checks in on the @Riverford trial plot.
The strip till crop is a little behind the ploughed, but the team is hopeful it'll catch up soon. Follow for updates: innovativefarmers.org/field-…
Today we started harvesting lettuce from Trial 2 of our collaborative project that aims to discover an effective peat-free blocking medium 🥬 @Riverford @CoventryCAWR @cambridgeeco & Delfland Nurseries
@innovateuk
#peatfree #peat
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This bank holiday we're celebrating some of the first @Riverford #agroforestry hazelnuts coming through @orchardeggs So big thanks to everyone who helped fund some of the original trees through @Riverford's refer a friend scheme!
Excited to be working on this project with @CoventryCAWR, Delfland Nurseries, @cambridgeeco & @innovateuk 🥬
Day one at @Groundswellaguk ✅
We even managed to fit in a project meeting as part of our collaborative project that aims to find an alternative to peat in our growing systems 🧐🌱🥬
Find out more here ➡️ youtu.be/38pocM2PdO0?si=NqPQ…
#peat @Riverford @CoventryCAWR @cambridgeeco
Yesterday I passed my viva with minor corrections ☀️Thank you @ipm_tom & @wormscience for a great discussion on everything Bean Seed Fly 🪰Massive thanks to my supervisor @Warwickpestnews & everyone else at @WarwickCrop for being amazing colleagues along the way 🌟#phdone – at Warwick, England
Dr Rebecca Bragg retweeted
Many congratulations Becca on the successful outcome of your viva today and thank you to examiners @ipm_tom and @wormscience 🍾🎉🎊
How apt that small flies that look like bean seed flies are landing on my thesis whilst I prepare for my viva 🪰 three days to go… 😬
@WarwickCrop @pgroresearch #IPM @WarwickLifeSci @Warwickpestnews
How apt that small flies that look like bean seed flies are landing on my thesis whilst I prepare for my viva 🪰 three days to go… 😬
@WarwickCrop @pgroresearch #IPM @WarwickLifeSci @Warwickpestnews – at Exeter, England
Another day spent soil sampling at @orchardeggs in a new agroforestry plot 🌳🐓 I’d say the hens were more helpful than Teddy 🐶 he kept stealing my bamboo canes! #agroforestry #soils #carbon @Riverford @blewinbell
Soil sampling for @blewinbell/@Riverford’s #agroforestry project 🌳🌳🌳 we’ll be measuring the carbon content in the soil at different depths 📏 we’ll return in years to come to see if these agroforestry plots are helping to sequester carbon 🧐#Climateaction
Dr Rebecca Bragg retweeted
Looking forward to providing an update on our research on bean seed fly @warwickcrop @BeccaaBragg
We can't wait for our agronomy day next Wednesday. Please arrive at 9:30am for refreshments and networking. Reserve your ticket here now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-l… #britishleeks #leeks #agronomy
Dr Rebecca Bragg retweeted
Very rewarding day for @Riverford sustainability team getting 43 walnut trees in the ground. Not quite the meaning of life but close. Look out for them if you're near Yealmpton and if you enjoy @Riverford lamb know that, at some point, it'll be coming from silvopasture.
Tomorrow afternoon I'll be discussing my final findings from my research on Bean Seed Fly 🪰 Inc. methods to prevent damage, monitor abundance and predict activity 🌱 Register for the webinar below ⬇️
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesc…
@WarwickCrop @pgroresearch @WarwickLifeSci #IPM
