Are you a farmer who wants to understand more about agroforestry?

The ‘Agroforestry Open Weekend’ is back for it’s 4th year from 17 to 20 May.

This farmer-led initiative invites you to see agroforestry in action! Find a farm to visit near you. agroforestryopenweekend.org

Three food crops that account for 42% of calories that people eat -maize, rice and wheat- to see dramatic increases in heat stress by *2050*

Under an optimistic *low* emissions scenario:
-27% of Maize at risk
-36% of Wheat at risk
-87% of Rice at risk
pwc.com/gx/en/issues/e…

Im giving a very wee talk about agroforestry! yey. Bugs n trees what is not too like?

Fifty years of monitoring changes in the abundance of invertebrates in the cereal ecosystem of the Sussex Downs, England - Ewald - Insect Conservation and Diversity - Wiley resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

Its #NoMowMay 🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🌻🪷🪻🏵️🦋🐝🐞🪲🪳

Ooooh.. Just received new book on regenerative ag, following 3 new entrants, farm and food and land policy, agroecology and much more.
Book of the film and more
A packed book, photos, interviews..4 chapters from me😁
From Six Inches of Soil 5m Books lovely foreword by
Sarah Langford

Looking forward to a fun discussion on local food - what are the real issues with our food system and why local means so much more than local with Green Christian - do join us.

What is this??

I said this a year ago and not much has changed on trade ENDS Report 😏
Though could say bit of progress re Canada deal but not on societal concerns?
😕youtu.be/mju9BOPTuks?fe…

thats about the same amount of food we waste - and we waste ALOT of bakery products - so ideally we'd have a major promotion on food waste

Start off your week by catching up on our roundup of last week's #soil headlines, covering:

🌱EFRA Committee Soil Health inquiry update
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland's climate goals
💰 Green Finance Institute Nature-related financial risk report

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/3QjJD17

#TheWeekInSoil

Some garden bugs in the sun this weekend - green shield bug, hoverfly and a sleeping flower bee
And for wildflowerhour some #wildflowerhour cowslips, garlic, bluebells, buttercups WWT London Wetland Centre

You dont have long to win a great book bundle from Social Farms & Gardens & Chelsea Green Publishing
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To enter all you need to do is:
1. Join our free membership; farmgarden.org.uk/join-us3
2. Sign upto Chelsea Green Publishing UK newsletter: chelseagreen.co.uk/newsletter-sig…
Ends April 30th 11:59pm 🤞🤞

The wonderous book 'Rebugging the Planet' by Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 is part of our BOOK GIVEAWAY BUNDLE📚, enter before April 30th!

For details on how to enter, see our original post👆

#Countryfile on very bad flooding but good response by farmer in Gloucester- changing what & how farming & with nature. customers will have to change what eat, not waste food..
Dredging etc is not going to be the answer to this kind of change in rainfall..
#climateadaptation

Oh heart stoppers Arsenal

A real grass playing field can cool the air by up to 2.9°C. Fake grass, on the other hand, heats up, making all those nasty chemicals more volatile.

Alder leaf beetles in full procreation and eating mode today..