CLIMATE and nature friendly farming methods are being demonstrated to students, farmers and the community at a large site next Royal Agricultural University.

A new seven-acre market garden - which has been named The GREAT Zerodig Project - is currently being set up to give students practical experience of small-scale commercial food production. 

More than £100,000 in funding was secured by The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group for the project from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard: The GREAT project team talking with staff and students at the RAUThe GREAT project team talking with staff and students at the RAU (Image: Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Southwest)
The garden will grow vegetables using the Zerodig method, a form of regenerative horticulture that will supply customers with nutritious, local produce. 

Most of the funding will be used to employ a lead grower and project manager for the first two years of the project.

University lecturers hope that the site will eventually become a commercially viable fruit and veg business.

To find out more visit https://www.greatglos.co.uk/greatzerodig