Land | Food | Nature | People
Last week, I had a really satisfying few days of work on two courses delivered by the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project through the Our Upland Commons Project. I started with an introduction to stone-faced earth bank repair near Chagford. A stone-faced earth bank resembles a dry stone wall from the front, inclined at an angle …
I just skimmed the surface of what was happening at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference. Around 4,000 people attended ORFC 2023 altogether, between online attendees and those in Oxford – the largest agroecological gathering in the world. I joined in person this year for the first time (the event returned to Oxford this year …
The pub that is The Twitter Arms has been extended a lot over the past sixteen years from a niche bar populated by a few curious souls. When we first went there, it was friendly and new. It’s always exciting to find a cool new little bar. Newer people through the door have no idea …
Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ If some of the biggest players in food and agriculture are serious about what they’re saying here, this is potentially game-changing. Nevertheless, scepticism is understandable when The Sustainable Markets Initiative Agribusiness Task Force includes the CEOs of Bayer, Yara, McDonalds and Pepsico. They are amongst those …
An interesting article on soil health and tech just popped up on BBC News. A great introduction to issues around soil health, it covers quite a bit around the emergence of new technology and how it can help keep soils healthy. The article maligns the plough, but it’s still an important part of the toolkit …
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