Cactus Tree Guards

UK distributor for Cactus Tree Guards. Farm plus local firewood business Westmorland Woodfuel. Host farm for @Carboncallfarm 2022/3/4 Regenerating our soils.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

Easy to re-imagine how this sort of set up could change the pastoral landscape for the better!

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

And silvopasture/wood pasture
Using things like @CactusTreeGuard

I’m glad we did that work

But when you transform your fields with grassland restoration and regen grazing…

It’s awesome

Yep, I’m proud of this place
I think it looks and is epic
And it’s only just starting

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@JPBWFarm @agricontract Sensationalist hype. They didn’t say this. Balance of grazing animals is needed as always. I suspect that farmers see removal of the ponies as favourable compared to reducing their cattle and sheep numbers in some areas. The reduction of numbers should be shared.

[Spooky Season @NomaViansa]

@JPBWFarm Context Matters =
Natural England wants to cut grazing numbers to meet habitat recovery targets. Farmers say the cuts are so extreme they’d wipe out most herds over time. The animals wouldn’t be “culled”, they’d be sold off, rehomed, or the herds would slowly shrink.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@DefraGovUK @angelaeagle Be better spending £1.5m on more MPZs . This is just plundering stocks. Does it include funding sea harrows for scallops?

[CarbonCallingFarm @CarbonCallFarm]

Exciting to work with SAS Agri Drones to spread Regenus fungi pellets on two of our Be The Change Farms.

For a small, trial area the drone is perfect:
✅ Quick, precise application
✅ No soil compaction
✅ Target hard-to-reach areas
✅ Adapts to the new products

#agritech

[CarbonCallingFarm @CarbonCallFarm]

🪱 NEW WEBINAR - hear from natural capital specialist, Emily Leech, who will talk through the habitat mapping work we’re doing on each Be The Change Farm.

🔗 Register in advance here: https://t.co/yXCqf6lyU3

#carbon #BNG

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@DefraGovUK How about restoring and expanding the habitats & species we are required to protect by law first?
Beavers can do the work needed cheaply but there’s a lot more that could be done to restore wetlands. National forests aren’t really forests. Try linkage and restoring rivers.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

Taking it to another level to restore farmed landscapes to multi-functional landscapes more in harmony with nature. We should see a lot more of this if Landscape Recovery is well funded. Not a threat, but an opportunity for farmers to give back….and be contented!

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Thank you to the Woodland Trust for these new scrub cages

Were trying to create a kind of British savannah in productive but species rich grassland areas

With Cactus tree guards and these cages for scrub/thickets

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@herdyshepherd1 They’ll be a great addition. Thickets of scrub are so valuable. The Cactus guards are on their way to you. Should be there by Tuesday. If not let me know and l will chase.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@Claramanda06 @KirstieMAllsopp err… incomes are far lower in the north.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@RBoldan Not something we should have in the east of England then!

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@herdyshepherd1 That will be epic. Good mix of Cactus guards and big timber tree cages will produce a diverse landscape in the near future and gives hope for the distant future. We could do this over significant areas of poor grazing land. So much better than plantation spruce.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@JamesBBr0wn @herdyshepherd1 Nice scenes but does need some trees regenerating/planting. Is this happening with just cattle or are deer hampering it?

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@andyrumming He should sire some great calves!

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

It’s a beautiful autumnal sunrise

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@dunce_patrol @SecRollins @USDA @10DowningStreet No mention of beef production being high welfare, ethical, sustainable or ideally regenerative. The industrial beef production system is wrong on many fronts. In the UK we are following the US policy and system.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@SecRollins @10DowningStreet @USDA Food?

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

Been a good summer for sunflowers . This wild bird mixes backed by abundant hawthorn berries should help out some birds this winter.

[Cactus Tree Guards @CactusTreeGuard]

@andyrumming Andy is a legend - sporting a fine shirt from @RobHavard1

[Andy Rumming @andyrumming]

The trip to Northern Ireland was awesome. Very friendly folk, engaging talks, great food and a lot of Guinness was drunk.
Also fields and fields of GREEN grass and folk silage making………

[CarbonCallingFarm @CarbonCallFarm]

💬 “We host Carbon Calling every year here and you want to be able to give people the data to prove what you’re actually feeling is changing.”

Our host Tim Nicholson @CactusTreeGuard on using https://t.co/FqKRIOFYc4 bird listening tech.
#regenag #biodiversity #agritech