We report here on the Falkland Islands’ history of formal agricultural research which, since inception in the 1970s, had to involve On-Farm Experimentation (OFE) to answer the challenges of a particularly remote and disperse population scattered over vast and mostly uninhabited environments, in conditions that were challenging for human settlement let alone a research programme. Previous pasture improvement for wool production from extensive sheep farming had been largely led by individual efforts, based on external advice. Then, logistic challen- ges around communications and transport, and the need to embrace the range of soil diversity, led to using the small settlement schools associated with each farm to im- plement a series of reseeding trials across the islands. Participation involved teachers, children and their farming parents, providing both community engagement and an ope- ning to discuss basic principles of reseeding and soil fertility. Lessons for today’s efforts in renewing OFE on the islands are discussed, notably possibilities for digital tools in this very remote environment.