Tremendous to read this local vicar has come out on behalf of soil! It’s the ground we all stand on (and ultimately are buried within) Six Inches of Soil : theguardian.com/environment/20…

Lovely piece on Farming Today this morning with two Cumbrian famers and Tree Amble's Pete talking about putting trees back into grazing systems - organic dairy and beef. Helen Chesshire Chris Jones Farming Today
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A refusal to tolerate wolves, lynx and even beavers in our landscapes is sort of understandable, if blindly wrong. But *moles*? Tiny harmless moles in their velvet suits whose tunnelling is essential in aerating the ground? Truth is, there are a lot of ‘custodians’ who’d really…

On this day in 1915 the Germans released a deadly cloud of chlorine against unsuspecting French troops who were supported on their right flank by Canadian soldiers. The effects were devastatingly horrific. A new demon was released on the battlefields. Remembering.

The sooner we bury these climate creeps and deniers in political history the better. The country is stuck. Debating their fatuous arguments, trapped by a media which thinks political journalism is more about crafting a wry inside joke than knowing what they are talking about.

Good to see this from Taras on my 'debate' with George Monbiot - it's been an unequal media battle

George said the problem with intensive agriculture is the noun, not the adjective. The ecomodernist & neoliberal knives are out & it's vital to defend renewable local agrarianism

I’ve seen a fair few Beaver dams, but this complex was up there with the more extraordinary ones. Goshawks were calling and month-old roofing signs of Wild Boar were apparent, but it wasn’t in Germany or Poland but Wiltshire. A sign of what’s to come?

Fossil fuels for 5 months
Coal & alternatives for natural gas for 8 months
Cereal for 6 months
Medicines for 12 months

Been learning how Finland, amongst other countries, has contingency plans, by law. Unlike, say, super-vulnerable UK (you can't eat a warhead, guys).…

I genuinely dislike being negative or critical but all of humanity faces greater danger now than ever. The global loss of biodiversity, leading to desertification fueling climate change and feeding on each other couldn't be more serious. If it continues all businesses,…

Rick The-V George Monbiot Chris Jones Howemill ….. to stop all livestock farming in the next 10 years isn’t going to happen in the UK. It would need primary legislation and would not get a majority. So why argue for it? Why not compromise and get behind peeps like Chris Jones who’s trying to make a difference?

I was asked on a post about the difference between biogenic and fossil methane and it's a question that deserves a post of it's own because we meet this question again and again.

So, firstly, all biogenic methane (from cattle, rice paddies, compost heaps, wetlands etc) is part…

Seriously why on earth would you not have a farmer on the panel? Bit like needing to win the game but not picking your best player who has experienced the pressure of having to win it all before. #Crazy for many reasons.

Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’

But, cheap chicken!

‘Cheap’ meat is anything but cheap. And it’s about to get a whole lot less cheap.

Slow clap for proponents of factory farming. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

chicken flu, chicken flu, it's coming for you

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Blimey! On a rare sunny November day!

Our tiny Twites under the heroic care of Oliver Crowther are nesting now. Nearing extinction in the lifeless landscapes of northern England this tiny finch can only be saved by captive breeding and reintroduction. Trying against the odds is better by far than not trying at all.

That works both ways George.

How much more evidence is required before govts. wake up to the extreme destruction of the natural ecosystems that all of humanity depends upon for its wellbeing & survival? Every day now there are more reports like this, but it's still 'business as usual'
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Pile of harvested nuts alongside a small burrow. Nuts have tooth marks consistent with dormouse, but would they have a burrow in the middle of a field?