We’re so proud to announce that our General Manager, Megan Hudson, has just been named as the winner of the ‘Environmental Champion’ award at the Ely Hero Awards 2024! Thanks to her amazing work here at Fenland SOIL, we all feel she is an incredibly deserving winner.
Megan has done an extraordinary amount to deepen our awareness of the challenges and opportunities associated with agriculture in the Fens. She has done this by building fantastic relationships with both local and national stakeholders, but most significantly with the farmers who are so pivotal to our work.
Her ability to engage such a range of people has allowed her to coordinate projects such as our widescale opportunity mapping pilot and hugely successful paludiculture trial.
This trial, run in collaboration with G’s Norfolk Farms, is the only commercial scale paludiculture project in the Fens. It has been central to furthering our understanding of how paludiculture might work in a Fenland context. These learnings have been shared locally via our busy paludiculture open days and nationally in a recent article featured in The Times (which you can read here).
These relationships have additionally been crucial in facilitating the creation of our soil, productivity, and water infrastructure maps of the Fens – work which has only been possible thanks to generous input from local farmers. This map will be essential to farmers in the near future as they navigate the shifting contexts of the Fens.
Evidently, Megan’s work over the last few years has proved invaluable to the agricultural community, so I’m sure you’d agree with us that she more than deserves this fantastic award.