# Event Details - **Event Name**: Wildfarmed: Andy Cato (Groove Armada) in conversation with Nihal Arthanayak - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 at 03:45 pm – Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 at 04:30 pm - **Event Description**: Groove Armada’s Andy Cato discusses founding Wildfarmed, a food and farming business that grows regenerative wheat to make flour.About this EventFarming has been Groove Armada’s Andy Cato’s full focus for 15 years, ever since an article he read about the environmental consequences of food production turned his life upside down — it ended with the line, “if you don’t like the system, don’t depend on it.”A quest to become self-sufficient led to a fascination with the soil, plants, and the miracle at work in the few inches of topsoil that sustains us.``He sold the rights to the songs he had written to buy a farm and attempt to join the ranks of those building new kinds of farming systems. It was a brutal lesson: he was farming heavily depleted soils, trying to bring diversity back into his fields against all the odds. This led him to found Wildfarmed, a food and farming business that grows regenerative wheat to make flour, as well as barley and oats, with his co-founders George Lamb and Edd Lees.His belief is that food and farming are our greatest points of agency to deal with the multiple crises we face. If we can give a largely urban population quality food from nature-rich landscapes that allow them to participate in restoring nature and health, it’s an incredibly powerful and hopeful message.Speakers:Andy Cato is perhaps best known as one half of the iconic electronic duo Groove Armada, but today he is also a farmer and one of the founders of Wildfarmed. Knighted with the French Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole, winner of the 2020 Agro-Ecological Innovation Prize, and now a National Trust tenant farmer, Andy’s shift from music to regenerative farming has brought fresh perspectives. From day one, his farming career has involved tireless research and hands-on experimentation. With over 17 years of practical experience, Andy co-founded Wildfarmed in 2019 — a pioneering regenerative food and farming business bringing quality food, grown in nature-rich landscapes, to the high street. https://wildfarmed.com/Nihal ArthanayakeNihal Arthanayake is a British broadcaster, journalist, and author.. He is known for his work at BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 5 Live and for his podcast, Headliners, with unrivalled long form interviews into the worlds of art, books, sport, music, film, and TV; also available on BBC Sounds.  Nihall is also Author of Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations, published in 2022. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/wildfarmed-andy-cato-groove-armada-in-conversation-with-nihal-arthanayak/100001922575016629 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, health-wellness, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwildfarmed-andy-cato-groove-armada-in-conversation-with-nihal-arthanayak-tickets-1922575016629 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The Manchester Museum - **lat**: 53.466508 - **long**: -2.23442399999999 - **full address**: The Manchester Museum, Oxford Rd, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Manchester Museum (https://allevents.in/org/manchester-museum/22581828) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a927aae9a0ac1629797c6924dd089b9f82933eb57762be8d65bb83b616fd5aa7-rimg-w1200-h600-dca6a6a7-gmir.jpg?v=1762452023 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/9de512395a90b34e3712e17f11c1d0e9fa9a0de238e174626f32d37cd6d4a17a-rimg-w400-h400-dca2a4a5-gmir.jpg?v=1762452022 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 at 03:45 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** The Manchester Museum, Oxford Rd, Manchester, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Manchester Museum - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, sports, health-wellness, entertainment - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Wildfarmed: Andy Cato (Groove Armada) in conversation with Nihal Arthanayak ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Wildfarmed: Andy Cato (Groove Armada) in conversation with Nihal Arthanayak", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a927aae9a0ac1629797c6924dd089b9f82933eb57762be8d65bb83b616fd5aa7-rimg-w1200-h600-dca6a6a7-gmir.jpg?v=1762452023", "startDate": "2025-11-22", "endDate": "2025-11-22", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/wildfarmed-andy-cato-groove-armada-in-conversation-with-nihal-arthanayak/100001922575016629", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "The Manchester Museum", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Oxford Rd", "postalCode": "M13 9PL", "addressLocality": "Manchester", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "53.466508", "longitude": "-2.23442399999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Groove Armada’s Andy Cato discusses founding Wildfarmed, a food and farming business that grows regenerative wheat to make flour.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-11-22", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/wildfarmed-andy-cato-groove-armada-in-conversation-with-nihal-arthanayak/100001922575016629" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/wildfarmed-andy-cato-groove-armada-in-conversation-with-nihal-arthanayak/100001922575016629", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Manchester Museum", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/manchester-museum/22581828", "description": "We're the Museum on Oxford Road with the dinosaurs and live animals. 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