Richard Higgins

Jack Reedy of the Badgers Trust: “This campaign is gathering incredible momentum,” he said. “The speed of this growth shows the scale of public interest. The government must listen to what the public are saying and give this matter parliamentary time. It needs to look at this science and reverse this short-sighted decision immediately to […]

I have been asked to speak at the Conference on Badgers on Saturday to Sunday October 13- 4th. I am on at 3pm Saturday. There are 110 delegates so far. Chris Packham (wildlife presenter, on BBC Nature programmes)  will open the conference.   Ticekts for this event are £130.00 each and includes the evening dinner and

World Development Movement London Groups invite you to join them on UN World Food Day for a screening of: Growing Change A journey inside Venezuela’s Food Revolution A documentary by Simon Cunich Followed by a discussion led by Heidi Chow, World Development Movement Campaigner Tuesday 16 October 2012, 6.30pm, Free entry At Firebox, 106-108 Cromer

  New England Biochar Burner goes to Old England! The Biochar produced (from Peter Hirst’s burner) needs to be crushed and added to compost before being applied to the land because char is inert. Biochar burner of Peter Hirst (USA) 1. loading the inner 45 gal. barrel with scrap pallet timber or any dry organic

Question from Steve Bell, New Zealand. Hi, i read your reply to an enquiry on growing mycorrihizal fungi to a reader. unfortunately i cant attend one of your courses as i live in new zealand, however i would be grateful if you could pass on some information that i could use to cultivate the fungi.virtually

We were please to receive Andrew Loxham and Mark Ravenskirk to the Micro-farm to discuss the latest on funding research and web design. They met Kevin Mascarenhas and Kevin Pressland and myself who form part of our new Bio Fertile Farming, Consultancy group.

I cut three square holes like this and when we burnt it was finished in 3.5 hrs but nothing was charred? The char in the picture was from the first burn that was 2o hrs… All done. Reply from Peter Hirst: You need at least four of those holes, probably six, evenly spaced around the

Dear Mike and Gigi (both run NGO’s for on the ground work in Haiti) Our recent trials in Uganda  came up with a negative reading for target pathogens after processing for 14 days in a 1.5m3 Howard-Higgins Hot Box: sanitation waste and kitchen refuse from 35 houses, collected in bioliners 300 MHM pads and 200

Richard Higgins, author and researcher. While others have commercialized various agricultural products to sell to farmers we are teaching how any farmer and for example, the 70% of Africans who are rural poor, can transform their own farm and household waste products into the most valuable fertilser – for FREE. The results of doing this