Custodians of the Land and Sea

Join Richard Negus and Mike Warner in the CLA marquee at the Suffolk Show for an engaging and enlightening conversation about custodianship of our countryside and coast, by countrymen and fishermen alike. 

RICHARD NEGUS
Richard is a former soldier and professional horseman. He now lays hedges for a living and is recognised for leading hedgerow management and rejuvenation.  Richard is a practical conservationist, writer, and now author  of the widely acclaimed ‘WORDS FROM THE HEDGE A Hedgelayers view of the Countryside’. Richard co-hosts a weekly podcast, Countryslide, covering British rural life, and his writing features in The Daily Telegraph, The Critic and Scribehound. He is Suffolk born and lives in the heart of his beloved county.
@troopersnooks

MIKE WARNER 
Mike is a born and bred Suffolk food writer, specialising in telling the ‘Net to Plate’ story of how our seasonal and regional British catch is caught and landed. Mike is passionate about the sustainability of not just our native fish stocks, but the fishing communities themselves; their tradition, culture and heritage. He is also an independent seafood and fisheries consultant, working with mainly hospitality and media clients to help  forge the traceability connection and better understanding of the realities of seafood production. He is a member of the ‘Guild of Food Writers’, a trustee of the fishermen’s charity ‘Fishing into the Future’ and Chairman of the ‘Shellfish Association of Great Britain’.
@apassionforseafood