For Farmers & Landowners · Kent & East Sussex

One day.
Verified for 30 years.

The WeCology Field Day gives you everything you need to enter the Biodiversity Net Gain market — a verified ecological baseline, a BNG Metric 4.0 habitat assessment, and a live GeoDataTrack account loaded with your first real field data.

Accredited Savory Institute EOV Practitioner
BNG Metric 4.0
Powered by GeoDataTrack
Max 10 participants
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£995
per person · all-inclusive
Second person, same farm£1,750 total
Cluster group (4+)£850 / person
Pilot events£750 — limited
Max participants10 per event
GeoDataTrack includedworth £150
Make Contact Ask a question first
Upcoming events: Host Farm, Kent · Host Farm, East Sussex
Pilot places at £750 — first come, first served
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The hidden cost of no baseline

The farms doing the right things are leaving £25,000 per unit on the table

Rotational grazing. Wildflower margins. Reduced inputs. All the right things — but without a verified ecological baseline, none of it counts in the BNG market. The only thing missing is the data.

External problem

No path to verification

BNG standards require rigorous ecological data — UK Habitat Classification, condition assessments, distinctiveness scores. The statutory metric is complex and the expertise is hard to find.

Internal problem

Uncertain about your land's value

You know your land is healthier than it was. But without independent verification you're questioning whether your regenerative efforts will be taken seriously by buyers, agents, and brokers.

Philosophical problem

Ecological work deserves recognition

Farmers who work with nature's intelligence — not against it — should be rewarded for it. Regenerative stewardship shouldn't go unrecognised and unrewarded.

£274m
Annual UK BNG market — with fewer than 20
registered gain sites by late 2024

The supply gap is your opportunity

  • Mandatory for all major developments since Feb 2024
  • Biodiversity units sell for £15,000–£25,000 each
  • Statutory developer credits cost ~£84,000/unit equivalent
  • 30 years of legally secured income per registered gain site
  • NSIPs become mandatory May 2026 — expanding demand
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Darren Smith Founder, WeCology & GeoDataTrack
Savory Institute Accredited EOV Practitioner
Ecosystem Restoration Design Graduate
BNG Metric 4.0 Practitioner
Founder, GeoDataTrack
Your guide

Led by one of the UK's few accredited EOV practitioners

"I know the frustration of watching land degrade when you know it could thrive. I've felt the gap between ecological intention and measurable impact — which is exactly why I created WeCology."

I'm Darren Smith, founder of WeCology and GeoDataTrack. I've spent years working across British farmland, African savannas, and everything in between — translating the deep wisdom of ecosystems into practical, verifiable outcomes that landowners, funders, and regulators trust.

The WeCology Field Day is the fastest route from good ecological intentions to verified, income-generating land. I lead every session personally, alongside the GeoDataTrack platform I built to make 30-year monitoring practical for working farms.

10+
Years field experience
3
Continents
EOV
Savory Accredited
The programme

A single day on a working farm.
8:30 – 16:00.

Small group. Real land. Real data. You leave with everything you need to enter the BNG market — not a certificate, but a live account and a verified baseline.

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08:30

Arrival & Welcome

Meet the group and host farmer. Overview of the day, the land context, and your objectives. Tea, coffee, and an introduction to the site.

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09:00

Ecological Intelligence

Introduction to the four ecosystem processes — Water Cycle, Mineral Cycle, Energy Flow, Community Dynamics — and how to read land health through the Holistic Management and STM lens.

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10:00

Live EOV Field Survey

Walk the land with the Savory Institute's 15-indicator Ecological Outcome Verification protocol. Record real observations. See your Ecological Health Index (EHI) score emerge in real time.

📱 Live in GeoDataTrack
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12:30

Lunch & Debrief

Hosted lunch on the farm. Interpret morning field data, discuss the EHI score, and open Q&A on your land's potential.

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13:30

BNG Habitat Baseline

Map and assess your habitats using Biodiversity Metric 4.0. UK Habitat Classification, condition scoring, distinctiveness, and unit potential — calculated for each land parcel.

📱 Captured in GeoDataTrack
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15:00

From Data to Income

How to register as a BNG gain site. What your units are worth. Legal agreements, unit stacking with carbon credits, and what to do next with your verified baseline.

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15:30

GeoDataTrack Activation

Your account is live and loaded with today's field data. You leave with the offline-first platform that will underpin your 30-year monitoring. Your first year's subscription is included.

What's included
Everything in a single day
£995 per person · all-inclusive
Full-day guided EOV field survey
BNG Metric 4.0 habitat baseline assessment
STM landscape reading & EI training
GeoDataTrack 1-year subscription (worth £150)
Account setup & onboarding during the day
Printed field guides
Personalised EHI score & habitat summary report
Hosted lunch & refreshments
30-minute follow-up consultation

Pricing options

Standard£995 / person
Second person, same farm£1,750 total
Cluster group (4+)£850 / person
Pilot events£750 — limited
Max participants10 per event
Make Contact Ask a question
darren@we-cology.com
we-cology.com/field-day
Ecological Intelligence

The four processes that determine
your land's ecological health

Every ecosystem — from a Kent meadow to a Kenyan savanna — functions through the same four processes. Understanding them is the foundation of the WeCology approach and the lens through which your BNG baseline is read.

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Water Cycle

How effectively your land captures, stores, and cycles water through soil, vegetation, and atmosphere. The foundation of productivity.

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Mineral Cycle

The flow of nutrients through living organisms, soil, and organic matter — the engine of soil fertility and long-term land health.

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Energy Flow

How solar energy is captured and moved through your ecosystem — the foundation of biodiversity, biomass, and productivity.

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Community Dynamics

The succession, diversity, and interrelationships of all living organisms on your land — the measure of ecological complexity.

"We are not separate from the ecosystems we seek to restore. We are participants in them — and our own regeneration is inseparable from the regeneration of the land."

— The WeCology Philosophy
GeoDataTrack
Technology Partner · geodatatrack.com
Built for the field

The offline-first platform for 30-year ecological monitoring

Every field survey completed on the WeCology Field Day is captured in GeoDataTrack — an offline-first mobile platform built specifically for ecological field data collection. It works without signal, syncs when connected, and produces the audit trail that regulators, buyers, and carbon standards require.

Your Field Day includes a 1-year GeoDataTrack property subscription (worth £150), with your account set up and loaded with real data before you leave.

Offline-first

Works without signal. Syncs automatically when connected. Built for remote field conditions.

BNG Metric 4.0

UK Habitat Classification and condition scoring built into the survey workflow.

EOV Protocol

Savory Institute's 15-indicator protocol natively integrated — EHI calculated automatically.

30-year audit trail

Every survey round builds the longitudinal record that keeps your biodiversity units credible.

Trusted globally

In active use across UK, South Africa, and Kenya. Trusted by TruQuest Savory Hub and FWAG East.

£150/property/year

Affordable enough for any farm. Your first year is included in the Field Day price.

Live field session
EOV Survey · Plot A · Today
Water cycleEffective — 72%
Bare ground<5%
Litter coverageGood
Plant diversityHigh — 14 spp.
EHI score68 / 100
BNG Metric 4.0 · Parcel 1
Habitat typeLowland meadow
ConditionModerate
DistinctivenessMedium–High
Area4.3 ha
Unit potential~8.6 units
Offline-first BNG 4.0 EOV integrated 30-yr monitoring
What you leave with

Your land, verified and ready to earn

After a WeCology Field Day, here's exactly what you have — and what's now possible.

Verified ecological baseline

A documented EOV assessment using the Savory Institute's 15-indicator protocol — the same methodology used for carbon and ecosystem service verification globally.

BNG Metric 4.0 habitat assessment

Your habitats mapped, classified by UK Habitat Classification, scored for condition and distinctiveness — the exact data needed to register your land as a BNG gain site.

GeoDataTrack — live, loaded, ready

Your field data already in the platform. Offline-first, works without signal, built for 30-year monitoring. First year's subscription included.

EHI score + habitat report

Your Ecological Health Index score and a written summary to share with advisers, land agents, or BNG brokers when registering your land as a gain site.

A clear path to income

Know how to register as a BNG gain site, what units are worth (£15,000–£25,000 each), and what management shifts will improve your score and your returns.

30 years of credible monitoring

Every future GeoDataTrack survey builds the longitudinal audit trail that keeps your biodiversity units credible and your 30-year legal obligations satisfied.

Without a verified baseline

You cannot sell biodiversity units
No evidence of ecological improvement
Developers buy units elsewhere
30-year monitoring has no starting point
Regenerative work goes unrecognised
Unrewarded stewardship
Make Contact

Your land is ready.
Let's talk.

Tell us about your land and what you're looking to achieve. We'll come back to you within 48 hours with a clear next step.

🌾 Host Farm, Kent [Date TBC] — pilot £750
🌿 Host Farm, East Sussex [Date TBC] — pilot £750
🔒 Your details are kept private and never shared
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