Jackie Pearce-Dickens is a founder member and Chief Executive of Whole Health Agriculture (WHAg), a British not-for-profit organization dedicated to investigating, supporting and promoting salutogenic approaches in farming. She is co-developer of the WHAg online Learning Centre designed to help farmers find and adopt alternative and traditional health practices which can end reliance on antimicrobials and synthetic chemicals. Jackie is passionate about promoting unity between concerned citizens and those who protect our collective health through wholistic farming and growing practices. Together, Jackie Pearce-Dickens and Chris Aukland, head up the teaching team at Whole Health Agriculture’s online Learning Centre which helps farmers worldwide learn and adopt farmer-tested, natural medicine and whole health systems. Whole Health Agriculture is committed to supporting farmers to become ‘citizen scientists’ to record data and measure outcomes that demonstrate that homeopathy and other complementary and alternative medicines have a credible role to play in the future of farm health.

JAHC 2024 Sessions:
ON DEMAND
Real Health on Our Plates: How A Homeopathic Approach is Helping Farmers

In livestock farming, natural and traditional medicines and methodologies have been long overlooked as salutogenic solutions to the challenges of infectious disease and parasite control, while we are now witnessing global, catastrophic effects imposed on environmental and human health by overuse of antibiotics and synthetic anthelmintics. This session explores the results of a survey of over 220 livestock farmers, which showed homeopathy and other alternative modalities achieving significant reductions in antibiotic and anthelmintic use, resulting greater herd health and less disease as reported by farmers. Furthermore, when farmers apply homeopathic remedies prophylactically according to protocols based on prevention and early intervention, we start to see consistent, sustainable improvements on measurable data such as national milk records, live birth rates, cull rates, stock replacement rates, and disease rates.