Birds, wildflowers, butterflies, moths and wildflowers, followed by croissants and coffee!

Join Neil Singleton, Alli Singleton and Kim Koester to discover the diverse selection of wildlife that call Le Tacheron Farm their home.

We will explore fields and hedgerows, before investigating the overnight moth traps and introducing you to the mysterious and beautiful world of night-flying insects.

We'll finish with freshly baked croissants, coffee, tea and orange juice from Veranda.

A wonderful, early morning wildlife adventure with breakfast included. Perfect for all the family!

Pre-booking required.

With:

Ali & Neil Singleton, Birding Tours-Jersey

Kim Koester

The official opening of the 2nd day of the 2026 Regen Gathering,

With:

Baroness Rosie Boycott

“In 2015 I grew an acre of April Bearded wheat in Devon. I scythed it, threshed it, and milled it by hand. What that year taught me was not a technique but a relationship: that a field of wheat is not a factory floor, it is a community of soil organisms, fungi, insects, weather and human attention, all metabolising sunlight together. When Stephan Harding taught me at Schumacher College that Gaia is not a metaphor but a description — that the Earth behaves as a single self-regulating living system — the acre made sense. Every loaf is a conversation with that system. The only question is whether the conversation is honest.”

Andrew now makes artisan pasta and biscuits using freshly milled heritage and population wheats, sourced from regional organic farms. Find out more about Andrew’s journey, what motivates him and why we need a cultural shift that moves away from the commodity.

With:

Andrew Gilhespy, The Fresh Flour Company

Charles Le Maistre, Le Tacheron Farm

Running a mixed smallholding: livestock, bees and veg. Join Ryan as he shares his ever-evolving journey with his diverse small holding.

With:

Ryan Cornick, smallholder

Accompany Matt as he lays one of the Le Tacheron hedges, and discover how this traditional practice provides vital agricultural, ecological, and environmental benefits.

With:

Matt Bartlett, Jersey Fine Tea

Three ambitious projects from the UK and Jersey share their vision for creating training opportunities and pathways into agro-ecological futures.

GroundSchool is a non-profit learning centre for the food and farming community, to share knowledge about regenerative approaches towards food production and teach the skills needed to make them happen.

GROW (UK) is a community focused farm that prioritises children, young people, and families facing barriers to learning, well-being, and the outdoors, with accredited courses and traineeships in mycology, floristry and horticulture.

Cultivate Skills reconnects Jersey’s deep agricultural and horticultural heritage with the emerging enterprise of tomorrow, providing professional development and education that turns aspiring entrepreneurs and hobbyists into professional producers and skilled horticulturists.

With:

Joanna Bowen, The Groundschool

Jess McGovern, Cultivate

GROW (UK)

What happens when you choose to invest in your own supply of food? Over 9000 citizens have done just that and become decision makers in the supply chain.

Herenboeren (People's Farming) is a revolutionary citizen owned farming model that is spreading across the Netherlands and reshaping European agriculture. Each farm is owned by approximately 250 households. Herenboeren highlights how community-backed agriculture can secure stable incomes for farmers, while returning food autonomy directly to citizens. Join Douwe Korting to find out more! A presentation will be followed by a 20 minute workshop.

With:

Douwe Korting, Herenboeren

Meet Elise Stubbs from Jersey Flower Farm as she works with her partner to weave a beautiful willow coffin. Elise specialises in providing local flowers and coffins for funerals and wakes, using blooms and willow that are grown on the family smallholding.

Hear from market gardener Jack about regenerative farming in Guernsey and why they decided to start farming.

With:

Jack Etheridge, Rowan Tree Farm

How to build a hot compost heap. The importance of composting for optimal soil health.

With:

Glyn Mitchell

An introduction to the Rural Support Scheme and an opportunity to have your questions answered. How can the RSS support new entrants into farming? How does the credit system work?

With:

Matt Le Maistre, Farm Jersey

A programme pause to take lunch and socialise

Join the Jersey Biodiversity Centre to conduct flower-insect timed (FIT) counts - a simple survey used to monitor our often overlooked wild pollinators.

With:

Emily Wagdin, Jersey Biodiversity Centre

Helena Norberg-Hodge reveals the impacts of globalisation on our food system, economy and society. How have multinationals created a concentration of wealth, assets and influence and what has been the impact of this on local communities?

Rather than economies serving communities, communities increasingly find themselves serving the needs of the global economy, where decisions are made by distant multinationals, institutions and political structures over which we have no democratic control.

An illuminating insight into the forces that shape our lives and those of future generations.

With:

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Young islanders share their experiences of taking part in educational projects, from growing, to cooking, to field to fork, before being joined by local facilitators. What inspires young people to be more engaged with the food they eat and where it comes from? What are they most curious about? What are the impacts of incorporating food and farming in education?

With:

Grace Crake, Sprouts Farm Club

Kaspar Wimberley, The Sustainable Cooperative

Islanders consistently tell us they want to eat healthier food, buy more local produce, and support Jersey's farmers and food producers. They also want good food to be easier to find, more accessible, and more affordable.

With supermarkets and local food businesses playing a significant role in shaping what we eat, what does a health and sustainable food retail environment look like in Jersey and what role could Government play in helping shape it?

This interactive huddle session will explore insights from recent workshops with Islanders and expert stakeholders, opening up discussion around creating food retail environments that support both people and planet.

With:

Martin Knight, Public Health

Learn how dung beetles act as vital ecosystem engineers, significantly improving soil health and boosting agricultural productivity.

With:

Sally Ann Spence

Learn how no dig gardening can be good for soil, healthy for plants and easy for gardeners! No dig gardening leads to more biodiversity, earlier harvests, fewer weeds, more productive plots, longer harvesting seasons, better water retention and improved drainage. Join us with Charles Dowding, for tips and tricks from one of the best in the business!

With:

Charles Dowding

This practical workshop gives yard owners an opportunity to explore how their own land could better support horses, biodiversity and the wider landscape. Using examples, case studies and design tools developed through applied research in the Netherlands, participants will examine the functions already present on their yards, identify what may be missing and consider realistic changes.

The workshop will focus on solutions that fit the land and its constraints: from grazing management and recovery areas to shelter, planting, routes, edges and connections with surrounding farmland. Participants can bring their own questions and yard challenges and work with Inga to develop ideas and inspiration for their next steps.

With:

Dr Inga Wolframm

Ralph Maalouf

Our rewilding journey so far.

With:

Chas Quenault, La Sergente

Piers Sangan, Sangan Conservation

Join Anne from the Jersey Biodiversity Centre and Société Jersiaise as she guides you through Jersey's September plants and wild flowers.

With:

Anne Haden, Jersey Biodiversity Centre

Join market gardeners Oliver Griggs from Lomah Farm and Sasha Marsh from The Soil Farm to hear how their farming operations and businesses have evolved over the past two years, with Sasha opening a farm shop in Guernsey and Oliver growing his veg box delivery scheme. What keeps them motivated and what are their visions for the future of food in the Channel Islands? What do they see as opportunities and what are their biggest challenges?

With:

Lomah Farm, Oliver Griggs

Sasha Marsh, The Soil Farm

Meadows come in all sizes, from small pollinator patches, to expansive landscapes and species-rich grasslands. Join meadow experts Sarah Flower and Dr Sally Gouldstone to discover what is possible with wildflowers, from meadow restoration, to garden meadows, farmland boundaries and meadows grown for botanicals, with practical advice on managing a meadow, collecting seed and propagation. Discover why Sarah and Sally fell in love with meadows and how important they are in restoring biodiversity.

With:

Charles Flower Consultancy, Sarah Flower

Seilich, Dr. Sally Gouldstone

Lifestyle medicine offers the opportunity to improve your health by taking a holistic look at the foods we eat, how we move, sleep, manage stress, and take part in our communities.

With:

Jo Darwood, Circle of Health

Lauren Perchard-Rees, Circle of Health

Watch a working sheep dog and shepherd in action as a group of runner ducks are expertly guided around the field. Find out more about Tom’s journey and how to train and work with your collie.

Hear how GROW Jersey and the Salvation Army are using horticulture to provide therapy, rehabilitation, social inclusion, education and social services.

With:

Sheena Brockie, GROW Jersey

Dr Sinead Peacock-Brennan, Growing Group

Landmatch Jersey is an opportunity for landowners and those looking for land to connect with one another.

You might be a landowner looking for somebody to farm your land in a nature-friendly way

You may also be a farmer, looking to share your land with other farmers or enterprises.

You might have a project idea, but need a farmer.

You might be a charity looking for a community growing space.

You might be a large community of people wanting to buy a farm together.

You might be a farmer needing more land to expand your operations

You might want to start a market garden or smallholding

You might not know what you want!

Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start.

The launch of Landmatch Jersey seeks to explore what support landowners and land seekers may need to ensure that land match projects get off to the right start, while sharing some useful insights. It is an opportunity to look at questions and challenges, as well as our visions and ambitions.

Landmatch Jersey will seek to connect people with programmes that support new entrants with training and access to markets, community food-growing initiatives and opportunities for those who feel excluded from farming to take their place in shaping our food future. We will focus on farming systems that work with nature, regenerate soil, protect water, foster biodiversity, build climate resilience, provide rural livelihoods and create local food networks.

Building trust and preparing to enter into a working relationship can take time, so this session is not about making a match, but preparing people to do so, though we don’t discount it either!

Meet leading experts on soil health and composting, to discuss composting techniques and how to use compost on your farm or in your garden. They will help guide you to the system that might be best suited to your needs, or optimise the system you are already using.

With:

Angelika Luebke, United Research for Soil

Kelly Moss, The Groundschool

Jock Pettitt, The Soil Farm

Learn how to plan and sow for year round crops. Tips to avoid gaps in your veg cycles.

With:

Laura Hudson

How we can change the tide and move from globalisation to localisation?

How are communities creating localised food systems, circulating wealth within the community, while rebuilding food sovereignty and a sense of place. How can we divest from structures that are responsible for the disconnection in our society, restore democratic authority, reconnect decision making with responsibility, and find alternative ways of measuring prosperity and economic health.

“If we truly seek healthier environments, stronger local economies, more resilient communities, lower costs of living, meaningful democracy, and greater human well-being, then the path forward begins by restoring local communities' ability to govern their own destiny.

Because the people closest to a place are ultimately those best positioned to protect it.”

With:

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures

Local songwriter Anna Paula Rieksta spent two weeks meeting and working alongside local producers as an artist in residence. Join us as Anna shares her experiences and the fruits of her labour.

Live music from Mary in the Dunes and food from the Le Tacheron Bakehouse