Video Topic: A New Path- Regenerative Agriculture on the Home Farm. In this video, Rikard Korkman speaks about his approach to regenerative agriculture and how this new way of thinking and working his farm has emerged over the last few years. Rikard is a trained agronomist, works as a senior advisor to the Swedish-speaking farmer's union in Finland (SLC, Svenska lantbruksproducenternas centralförbund), and is a 6th generation farmer.

00:00 Introduction
03:40 Personal Background & Start of Journey
06:30 Sustainable Agriculture Is Not Enough
09:30 Personal Reflections on Regenerative Agriculture: restoring a sense of excitement
12:17 Importance of Networking
18:20 Farm History Milestones
22:40 Crop Rotation with 6 Field Blocks & 2-year Cover Crops
26:30 Agroforestry Thoughts
31:28 Q&A 1: What has been the biggest challenge in transitioning to regenerative agriculture?
37:45 Q&A 2: What are your thoughts on improved measures to protect water quality, in particular riparian zones?


Final Seminar

The Lill-Nägels Agroforestry Pilot Project (2023) held its final seminar on December 1st, at Novia's Campus in Raseborg, Finland. At our final seminar we invited Joel Williams of Integrated Soils to speak to us about the principles of regenerative agriculture, engaged Rikard Korkman- the farm owner- to share his journey into this new way of farming, provided time for the project manager (Joshua Finch) to share the progress and future plans of the site, and Michael den Herder to speak about agroforestry in Finland.

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The Lill-Nägels Project in Brief

The Lill-Nägels Agroforestry site is a forward looking pilot project investigating successional silvoarable agroforestry in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The project's primary goals are to restore soil fertility on degraded agricultural land through farmer-supported biodiverse plant communities; to restart viable regenerative cash cropping; and to broaden the farmer's product portfolio marketed directly to consumers through a CSA.

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Funding Acknowledgements

The Lill-Nägels Agroforestry Pilot Project was publicly funded by EU Development Funds & the Finnish State through Uusimaa's ELY-Center, the private foundation Stiftelsen Finlandssvenska Jordfonden sr. (who were instrumental in the first phase of the project in the latter half of 2022), and Novia University of Applied Sciences.

The project continues as the third work package (WP3) of the "Agroforestry in Nyland" development project, currently funded by EU Rural Development Funds & the Finnish State through Uusimaa's ELY-Center and Novia University of Applied Sciences.

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