Britain currently imports 80% of its fish and exports 80% of their fish Looks like Money is more important than food Wonderful species all round our coasts but we don’t want to eat these varieties. protests in Ireland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Romania and France ”We are sleep walking into food shortages” said Gareth Wyn Jones. […]
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Why do agricultural fields need borders of unattended grass. According to the Government it is a legal requirement to install an undisturbed grass border round all your fields and along new hedgerows. This requirement has come about due to the nature of mainstream agriculture. If we use a system of agriculture that does not
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While Centres like the UKCEH point out the many problems of Nitrogen pollution from spreading manures they do not offer a comprehensive solution. We do. Good Gardeners International have a comprehensive solution to this age old problem. Indeed we have been broadcasting the solution for over 25 years…..and we sell the end product, HH-4, on
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BBC Farming Today January 15th, 2024 Wet summer last year means lost harvests of Swede and Potatoes that have been under water for 2 days. Also 11,000 acres of Brassicas were lost in Lincolnshire and another 1,000 acres in Cornwall affecting cabbages, Cauliflower, Leeks and Sprouts and up to 20% of crops were lost with
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Our SHOP page lists HH-5 SuperFast DRY toilet Activator. We’re the only charity that cares this much! We have spent many years developing how to do this. This is a dehydrated product, or dehydrated to the right stage. There are no bugs and flies etc., cannot get into it. This is successful – give it
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An article in the Guardian depicted that raw sewage was released into UK waterways over the last three years – before there were the heavy rains. This strengthens our case for the alternative treatment of sewage before it gets to the lower reaches of the sewerage system. When the heavy rains come the sewerage system
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BBC OPEN COUNTRY announces Today that half of the trees planted on the North Wales project with Asylum seekers and others have died. This is due to the very fast method they are adopting. We recommend a different method. This method involves growing trees from cuttings rather than transplants, although transplants can also be used.
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The BBC World Service have broadcast, yet again, inaccurate information on pollution from cooking fuels. In this statement they didn’t say which Country they were referring to. ”Wood burning for cooking is more polluting than diesel fumes” they said on December 16, 2023 ”and kills more people than diesel fumes.” This information is coming from
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At 10.08 minutes: Next year could see drones being used for the first time to drop microscopic worms on trees, to protect them from harmful insects. The worms, or nematodes, are natural predators of damaging insects and the forest industry is developing ways of controlling pests as pesticides it currently relies on are phased out.
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The Lentil crop can survive much drier conditions than say Chickpeas but are wiped out periodically by ”Rust.” some 20,000 ha were wiped out in 2005 due to infertility which brings on the disease ”Rust.” There are 20 thousand varieties of lentils and plant breeders have come up with a more drought resistant variety of
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