This needs more views. Excellent film produced by Nick Viney and Harrison Wood on management of water around Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley and the brilliant work of some progressively-minded farmers and landowners.
Blink and you’ll miss me in it.
Nathan Nelson
It’s the birds’ garden, we just share it
Recorded in the morning at the end of February, birdsong in the garden. House sparrows, a song thrush, robin, woodpigeons, dunnock, the cock pheasant that lurks in our garden, blackbirds and corvids off in the background.
Throwing away perfectly good milk
Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed additive that claims to significantly reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows, reports BBC News. Since Arla announced that it was trialling Bovaer on 30 dairy farms, “social media users” …
Week-ish notes 02/12/24
On the 23 September I went along to LandAlive, a regenerative farming and food conference for the South West. The second day was themed around food. Caroline Grindrod opened the plenary with a beautiful talk about our ‘story of separation’ – how our fear, driven by from separation from land and nature, drove us to …
Permaculture and spiders
We have an entente with the cellar spiders in our house. We leave them to their own devices in the crevices and ceiling areas we don’t need, and they return the favour by policing all the other invertebrates. Pholcids eat flies and other spiders. They’ll eat each other if pushed. We’ve tried over time to …
A (very brief) history of agriculture
This was a piece of course work from my Skills Bootcamp in Regenerative Land-Based Studies at the Apricot Centre earlier this year. It’s an attempt to map out a history of agriculture. It will have missed a very great deal, but I focussed on pivotal events and technological developments that drove population change. Comments welcome. …