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Local Pork
I’ve just booked our three not-so-little-at-all now Large Black pigs in for the chop. I’m not looking forward to it.To be honest I still get a bit quivery about it, although it has become part of our...
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Battery Hens
Posh Poultry Another animal welfare posting following the pigs (sorry)… I saw the Battery Hen Welfare Trust on the local news yesterday and wondered if we couldn’t squeeze some “ex bats” in,...
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Landscape Juice Network ran a story over the weekend about the cancellation of the Edible Garden Show which got me thinking. The show was rather different in scale to the Lamyatt village fete; it was...
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Gower Wildflowers
Now that's what I call a green roofI sneaked over the Severn Bridge on St. David’s Day trying to hide my Bath Rugby windscreen sticker, en route to Gower to visit our native wetland plant supplier. It...
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Name That Ram
K Ern and I picked up our lovely Poll Dorset ram from the effervescent Graham Langford in the Blackdown Hills today. Here he is looking rather – well – sheepish (that’s the ram, not Graham). To recap...
View ArticleAAArgh…We're All Gonna Die!!!
Bee numbers plummet as billions of colonies die across the world (Daily Mail) Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe The world may be on the brink of biological...
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A Little Outing
A quick trip to the Marches last week to visit a couple of folk and the Malvern Show. I’m not going to mention any of my normal Show gripes, but concentrate on the positive. The nice thing about the...
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Apple Picking
When we first moved into the village the noise of apples being dropped into buckets was, as much as Robins singing at dusk, one of the defining noises of autumn. Then the cider factory up the road...
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Don’t Stall on Sow Stalls!
Sow stalls are a shocking scandal. To my mind, as they’re an animal welfare issue they’re much more offensive than any meat mislabelling problem, and yet few people even know what sow stalls are. So...
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The Wildflower Meadow And The Chicken
A chicken and a wildflower meadow don’t seem a natural combination, but in fact they’re a match made in heaven. Let me explain. Last year we were approached through the British Beekeepers’ Association...
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