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
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.
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
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
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
@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
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
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
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
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
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.