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BBC Radio 4 Farming Today at the Real Farming Conference 7th January 2016 This braodcast includes interview with Keith Goulding of Rothamsted Research I have met and discussed the Howard-Higgins system of agriculture with professor Keith Goulding and the top four soil scientists of Rothamsted. His interview with Radio 4 starts at 1.00 minute. His point […]

Radio 4 Farming Today  6th January 2016 This Broadcast includes interview with Mathew Sheppard of The Government web site Natural England starts at 3.16 minutes.    

There are possible links to fracking and the formation of sink holes. Is cheap energy worth this risk?  (Interesting correlation to biblical references) Opening sinkholes, earthquakes and fracking for cheap energy are finding increasing numbers of links according to researchers. Ohio lawmakers have banned fracking operations as they have found evidence that this is the

From Doctor Mercola The impending superbug crisis needs to be addressed from a number of different angles, but eliminating antibiotics for growth promotion and prophylactic purposes in livestock and fish production is perhaps the most pressing priority. As a consumer, you can add pressure on the industry and hasten this change by demanding antibiotic-free meats

(or the lack of it) Article in the Guardian by George Monbiot. We all know what’s gone wrong, or we think we do: not enough spending on flood defences. It’s true that the government’s cuts have exposed thousands of homes to greater risk, and that the cuts will become more dangerous as climate change kicks

Food writer, author, farmer and poet Wendell Berry talks about Albert Howard Who is considered the Grandfather of organic farming in recent times. It is his work that this web site is based upon. In this footage Howard is mentioned …at  6.50  and  19.00 minutes …”First we have got to change the standards in agriculture

Two week survey in Bermuda completed with many good outcomes. Presentations were made to Pecha Kutcha who reach 300 countries. There were 180 present at this meeting. Presentation to 28 invited people at Spirit House, Hamilton was very well received the talk was intended to be for 45 minutes to one hour. The talk went

Following two visits to the Well End Micro-farm in South Hertfordshire to view the Howard-Higgins growing system employed there the McCarrison Society and Professor Michael Crawford, director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry, invited Richard Higgins (author of Sustainable Agriculture London) to attended a day of seminars on The Global Crisis in the world’s Food System and

Seeing this web site is about the health of the  population and the health of the planet and in light of what has been released on the BBC World News: ‘The processed meat industry is causing cancer.’ (WHO).  We need to look deeper into the continuing trend for more and more meat production in the

This Statement is banded about often enough these days and my view (author of this web site) is that it should be changed to ‘End Corruption Now.’ Corruption is the major cause of poverty.   The author of this web site is RIchard Higgins