Richard Higgins

Consultancy

Based from our Well End Micro-farm in South Hertfordshire, we offer a range of consultancy options for farmers, growers and Eco-villages. Write to us with your request for any of the above. We offer on farm training for HH-1 windrow composting and mineral replenishment to protect you animals and crops from disease. Howard previously cured […]

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Making concrete

It comes to the attention of our course takers at our Well End Micro-farm that neighbouring farms are more or less making concrete of their soil. We walk along public footpaths on some of our courses and it can be clearly seen how the continual deep ploughing brings up the layer of thick sticky clay

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Guardian Newspaper

If anyone knows a journalist in the Guardian Newspaper, or any journalist, who want to increase knowledge about compost toilets – please ask them to write to us. There have been several articles recently about this subject since Glastonbury and they all stop short of fast processing of human effluent. Our HH-2 system would save

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Installing HH-2 at Plum Village south west France

The Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh https://plumvillage.org A global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living.   April 2014 The Bergerac region of south west France saw the first installation of HH-2 The Plum Village Buddhist community are located

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Podcast: Warwick University on TB transmission

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140703-1028a.mp3 This discussion starts at 3.12 on transmission of TB in cattle. No one has considered soil fertility as a factor. The discussion involves the Farming Minister George Eustice and scientists from Warwick and Cambridge Universities. He says we have dozens of experts in DEFRA;………… but none of them are even considering soil fertility, or

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