Resources

Our farm notice boards are a great way to com­mu­ni­cate pos­i­tive mes­sages about food, farm­ing and the countryside.

The Green Box is a sim­ple, step by step approach to mon­i­tor­ing the envi­ron­ment on your farm. It is sim­ple and prac­ti­cal to use and pro­vides guid­ance and advice on what you might see and when. Divid­ed into four sec­tions — bio­di­ver­si­ty, soil, water and air, the Green Box will help you record and mon­i­tor activ­i­ty on your farm.

The Green Box will pro­vide the vital infor­ma­tion the indus­try needs in terms of ​‘real on farm’ facts. With these facts we can col­lec­tive­ly pro­mote farm­ing and the results can also serve as a per­son­al reflec­tion of your farm’s per­for­mance. The Green Box will also help farm­ers mea­sure the pos­i­tive impact of their man­age­ment tech­niques and help tar­get future prac­tices to gain the biggest improve­ments. Mon­i­tor­ing is also a great way to involve the local com­mu­ni­ty and local experts. 

The Green Box is FREE to LEAF mem­bers and £50 for non members. 

Inte­grat­ed Farm Man­age­ment: A guide pro­vides an overview and intro­duc­tion to LEAF’s Inte­grat­ed Farm Man­age­ment to LEAF Members.

We have com­piled a use­ful col­lec­tion of LEAF Mar­que doc­u­ments and down­loads for your information.

LEAF Mar­que is an envi­ron­men­tal assur­ance sys­tem recog­nis­ing sus­tain­able farmed prod­ucts. Learn more about the LEAF Mar­que Standard.

The LEAF Sus­tain­able Farm­ing Review is a self-assess­ment on-line man­age­ment tool to help farm­ers farm more sus­tain­ably. It enables them to mon­i­tor their per­for­mance, iden­ti­fy strengths and weak­ness­es and set tar­gets for improve­ment across the whole farm.

LEAF can organ­ise train­ing which is inter­ac­tive and fun and pro­vides the sup­port you need to put on a real­ly good farm vis­it. The train­ing can be bespoke and flex­i­ble but will cov­er the core ele­ments of activ­i­ties, health and safe­ty, plan­ning a route and oth­er spe­cial­ist areas such as web­sites and pod­casts if required.

Help­ing your vis­i­tors to under­stand where their food comes from and how it is pro­duced is so impor­tant. Our team at LEAF work with our spon­sors to ensure our host farm­ers have access to a range of free teach­ing resources about food and farm­ing. We’ve pulled togeth­er our top ideas for activ­i­ties to engage your vis­i­tors at your event on Open Farm Sunday.

We have a wide range of videos in our video library, cov­er­ing top­ics such as tech­ni­cal sub­jects, what LEAF Mar­que is, and even allow­ing you to catch up on the high­lights from our events.

If you join LEAF you will have access to many more use­ful resources such as our IFM Bul­letin, LEAF Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre and LSFR Guidance.