Callum Bennett manages Innovation and Technical at Norfolk Farms and Feltwell Growers, two G’s growers. The farms have completed 2 years of paludiculture trials at 20cm water table, mostly focused on salad crops with trials on Chinese leaf, mini romaine lettuce and celery. They have also trialed farming at water tables of around 45cm with radishes, lettuce and celery. Both trials have collected extensive yield and carbon data with a goal of evaluating the opportunities and drawbacks of raising water tables. The farms make use of a sub-irrigation system, utilising the drainage under the fields and a network of dams to control water tables under the crop, making them a great trial site for this work.
