Lukie Tolhurst

Suspending my account until Twitter sorts itself out. Resource efficiency, soil health, regenerative land use and ecological restoration.

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Suspending my twitter account for the time being. Can't support this platform currently.

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

@McG_Edel @BattleFarms @WildOxfordshire @bensonbirdman @12beesbuzzing Fantastic day, so lucky to have this on our doorstep. Thanks to @BattleFarms for hosting and @FavColour_Green for the fabulous tweet overviewing hedgelaying with photos from the day. Excited for the hedge training next weekend with Nigel Adams thanks to @WildOxfordshire

[Megan @FavColour_Green]

Today is the day! The #NationalHedgelayingChampionships !

If you are at all curious about hedgelaying, I will do my best to describe it from start to finish, with all it's weird and wonderful quirks

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Nice graphic in the new Composting Handbook Ed:Robert Rynk:"ideally [compost] should fall in a moderate moisture range (50%–65%) and possess C:N in the vicinity of 25:1 to 40:1" i.e. around the light yellow in centre.

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

I looked at the increase in fungal toxins in foods 15yrs ago. They were already predicting climate change increased fungi impact on food quality & crop health. Time to harness this fungi boom by encouraging beneficial fungi to rebalance and protect
https://t.co/cYT6e4OV9Y

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Gardeners World episode 25, 30mins in Natural England's Soil Scientist, Matthew Shepherd, introduces soil organisms @GWandShows https://t.co/WkDZvfrHpg

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Over the past eight years farmer has shifted to regen ag and cut diesel use from 130 litres/ha to 70 litres/ha – a saving worth £60,000 to the business, while improving wheat yields by 1t/ha to 9.6t/ha https://t.co/uuDct6eYw4

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Soil Health Scorecard guidelines published by AHDB with benchmarking datasets to check how your soil is doing https://t.co/TvVpn8Kk7Y

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Raised solar enables integrated energy and food land use, and can be used for crop protection from elements
https://t.co/mnEF1b7Jdv

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Great feature on the UK Grown flax to linen project, Homegrown Homespun, on @BBCCountryfile Let's get UK grown hemp clothing a boost, join the Hemp Special Interest Group textiles event Nov 15th @BioVale_Cluster @Harrison_Spinks https://t.co/3NSCwItknr

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

@SoilAssociation agroecology review: "the lower variable costs, along with the greater capacity to access agri-environment payments and marginally higher value retained at the farm gate enable the above agroecological farm types to improve profitability" https://t.co/nfHNuTjLCw

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Good Food Good Farming March to stand up for local, high welfare, nature & climate friendly, nutritious food for all. This Saturday 15th 12.30pm Parliament Square https://t.co/iFxx5hOxfr @Eventbrite

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

University of Virginia 3D-prints living soil walls that sprout greenery https://t.co/g8cnOrW3sh via @dezeen

[Biorenewables Development Centre @BDC_org]

Building capacity and connectivity for the UK hemp textiles supply chain

This Hemp SIG round table event will focus on developing UK supply chains for hemp textiles and associated products.

https://t.co/WKY5EUEW7O

#Hempfibre #hemptextiles #industrialhemp #sustainabletextiles

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Prof Jim Harris at Cranfield University calls for systems approach to track #SoilHealth: assess signs of life, complexity, function and emergence https://t.co/L0x74j6gAD

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Baking and heritage grains @wakelyns

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

A timely reminder by Jonty of the Agroecology principles to get us going yesterday @ORFC @RealFarmED #ORFCinTheField

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Amazing day yesterday with @ORFC @RealFarmEd with Keynote Dan Saladino on how our food system is killing life, and the resources we now have to reverse that #ORFCinTheField

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Come and found out about the amazing potential for UK grown Industrial Hemp in construction, textiles, food and other uses at the British Hemp Alliance stand @UseBritishHemp at @Groundswellaguk tomorrow and Thursday #RegenerativeAgriculture #Groundswell22

[Lukie Tolhurst @Lucid_Insight]

Wonderful day @RealFarmED with an experienced and dedicated group looking at regenerative horse grazing options - still lots to figure out but this is a brilliant start on an exciting and important journey to rethink the role of equines in restoring, not degrading, our landscape.