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List of lectures Capel Manor College  at invitation of Lois Amos (RHS) Coventry University 2009, The Howard Memorial Lecture The Soil Association Symposium, Coventry Motor Museum, 2013 The National Badgers Conference, Lymington Hants. Summer 2013 Engineers Without Borders, London The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014  

An excerpt from Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease, Howard, 1945  £9.00 from SuAgLon. My next post was more promising – that of Botanist to the South East of England Agricultural College at  Wye in Kent. Where in addition to teaching I was placed in charge of the experiments on the growing and drying

As a researcher and advocator of truly organic systems one of the main errors in modern farming is that of the breeding of short straw varieties of cereal crops. The main source of fertiliser on a mixed farm is straw. The cheapest form of building houses with the best insulation properties is with straw. The traditional

A Fly in the ointment of agriculture How GM food and GE technology can detriment the world by trying to take agriculture away from humanity and manipulate it into a globally owned business. If you Google GMO foods you get all the bad stuff about GM not any good stuff – what does that tell

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

Welcome to Nutritional Info at the  Well End Micro-farm. We are Micro for two reasons. We are a small farm and we specialize in massively increasing the micro biological activity of the soil. This is the key to understanding natural health in plants, animals and man. Our food in Europe and most of the world

                     Transcription of “The Howard Lecture” 2009                            Given at the Venue of the University of Coventry for International visitors to the Royal Show from Nigeria, hosted by ‘Grow Africa’ in the interest of

This course covers the relevance of biochar making for making immediate results in the art of food production. This new kind of burner runs at a smokeless level when fully running emitting only CO2 and water vapour. You can use the resultant charcoal for B-B-Q fuel water filters artists charcoal fertility preservation Temperatures of 450*C will

This Lecture was given at the Coventry University July 9th 2009 in connection with the International visitors, to the last Royal Show at Stonley, hosted by the Grow Africa Project. This lecture was delivered as a response to previous speakers at this conference namely prof. Phil Harris (Grow Africa) and John Loxham (New Directions Foundation). Good

Richard Higgins – researcher and farmer has been presenting on radio and at conferences summer 2012 about the issue of diseases in cattle such as TB and Foot and Mouth disease etc., I was invited to attend the National Badger conference in Lyminton, Hampshire where there were 110 delegates for a 3 day conference. I