Vegetable crops are threatened due to excessive wet weather. Oil seed rape production is down 38% Olive oil prices increase 108% due to excessive drought in Spain One UK Farmer is diversifying into making Bocashi and making composting products As “Traditional farming is not profitable at the moment “ This is what we […]
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New findings from Michael Mosely. A BBC broadcast on the Today programme It is now found that previous information on cooking with Olive oil is incorrect. Michael Mosely describes how this new information on Olive oil is found to be beneficial with anti inflammatory properties even if you cook with it. Either regular Olive oil
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BBC Farming Today 6.4.24 February was announced as being the wettest February ever. Now apparently, it has been announced, as the fourth wettest February ever., “There has been £900,000 damage to farm livestock from dog walkers’ dogs…..” Footpaths are footpaths just like your garden is your garden…there may not be a public foot path through
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Radio 4 Broadcast on Farming Today was speaking about the work of UNDO who are currently researching how to sequester Carbon from the atmosphere. Global Reach In partnership with organisations worldwide, we can extend the climate-saving benefits of our carbon removal technology. The Good Gardeners have been acting upon our research from 60 years ago
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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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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 is a really good example of persistence in plant breeding. Baked beans grown at a Lincolnshire farm as part of an innovative project led by the University of Warwick, have now progressed to the tinning stage. Capulet beans were grown by farmer Andy Ward, using innovative methods developed at the University of Warwick Innovation
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At Good Gardeners International we see it is a fact that good farming comes from good gardening. This is the easiest way to trial and prove systems and integrate them into farming. With the ongoing effects of chemical farming the need to step away from monocultures and chemicals is ever apparent. In this video it
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How do we replenish depleted soil from intensive farming to a wholesome state so that we can grow healthy food? How to avoid pollution of our rivers? Richard Higgins, chairman of Good Gardeners International Charity, joined Richard Vobes to explain the impressive Howard-Higgins Organic Cultivation system. It will blow your mind…
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