Richard Higgins

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Interview between Dr. Mercola and USDA Soil Scinetist Ray Archuleta He explains why burying carbon in the the soil doesn’t work. This would be good instruction for the UK’s Agricultural colleges that have so far failed to understand how to turn carbon (straw) into fertiliser. He also explains how they (farmers) have to be illuminated

Food writer, author, farmer and poet Wendell Berry talks about Albert Howard….at  6.50  and  19.00 minutes …First we have got to change the standards in agriculture – first we have to start with studying the nature of the place….and we have to change farming from – Productivity to Fertility. From the Food Programme BBC Radio

This Is What Happens Immediately Switching to Organic from the McCarrison Society

continued from John Humphrys  The Great Food Gamble ..And what about  those real scientists  that gets it wrong? As every researcher knows,it happens all the time. I spoke to one of Britain’s most distinguished biologists in the course of researching this book and he confessed to me that he had been teaching his students something

avian bird flu threat of loss of food security food security Avian Bird Flu and food security The Blind Worshippers of Science Supermarkets and Subsidies “If farmers were real farmers” and Global Eco Village contraversal breeding of new varieties bird flu threat reduces food security industrial agriculture reduces food security

On talking about the effects of Genetically Modified organisms in modern farming in his book The Great Food Gamble, John Humphrys writes: …..no one is denying science. What the critics of industrial agriculture are asking….is “Why should  we continue to have faith in a system  that is based on too many flawed principles?” Blind worshippers

BBC Farming Today, Friday 7th August, 2015 Milk prices are collapsing dramatically due to Supermarkets economic policies. They do not wish to support our own farmers. They will supply cheaper and cheaper milk based on imports and the fossil fuel industry – which  is bound to collapse. Our farming is collapsing around us and they

I did say on this film (tongue in cheek) that if farmers were real farmers they’d be doing this…….. (Richard Higgins) from Haiti Film II  (under Media tab, Home page)       Richard presenting the HH technology to Professor Reid of WEDC (Water Engineering Development Committee., UK) who was flown into the Haiti earthquake

  Fruit and veg are getting SWEETER – but are now ‘less nutritious and have fewer health benefits’, scientists claim A range of vegetables and fruits have become sweeter in recent years But many scientists believe that taking out the bitter compounds – known as phytochemicals – will harm us, and make food less nutritious  By