Slow the flow: Farming for flood management

Join this webinar to discuss how nature-friendly land management can slow the flow and explore practical solutions for addressing flooding on farms. Hear about an innovative landscape-wide project working to store, slow and intercept flood water in water catchments, benefiting multiple farms and communities downstream.
Meet the Speakers:
Sam Kenyon, a farmer in North Wales: Sam farms regeneratively in Denbighshire, North Wales, focusing on soil health, natural flood management and nutrient management. She introduced herbals leys as a natural way of fixing nitrogen in the soil, avoiding chemical fertilisers and improving the health of her small flock of 90 Welsh mule ewes through rotational grazing. Her natural flood management is addressing the pressures of increased yearly flooding from the river Elwy. Sam is slowing the flow by repairing and regenerating 2km of river banks and working on creating a flood basin and wet woodland to filter flood water.
Dan Turner, the Rivers Trust - Dan is the Technical Lead for Land Management and Market creation at the Rivers Trust. He led the Wyre NFM Investment Readiness project which is the first of its kind, innovative project attracting green and social investment to fund ecosystem-led, catchment-scale Natural Flood Management project. He is currently working on several market-led initiatives across the UK looking at how to scale these approaches. He has a particular interest in Natural Flood Management, recently completing a part-time PGcert in Flood Risk and Coastal Management at Lancaster University and co-author of the Ciria NFM Manual. Dan grew up on a large mixed farm in Cumbria and has a strong interest in how agriculture and the environment can work together.
Rhys Evans, NFFN Cymru - Rhys is the Sustainable Farming Lead for Wales where he supports the NFFN Cymru steering group in all their activities, including policy and advocacy and farmer knowledge exchange. Along with his parents and brother, Rhys is involved with running the family farm in Rhyd-y-main near Dolgellau, North Wales. They have a flock of Welsh Mountain sheep and pedigree Welsh Black cattle which are used to manage roughly 700 acres of hill and mountain land. The farm is part of a project set up in 2020 which works with 10 farmers in the Afon Wnion catchment, to collaboratively address issues of flood risk and water quality.