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Neonicotinoids And Bees - Again 12 Apr 2013 | 07:12 pm
The European Food Safety Authority has labelled three neonicotinoid insecticides as ‘an unacceptable danger to bees’. Our own all-party Environmental Audit Committee has called for a moratorium on the...
On Our Knees In The VendÉE 5 Apr 2013 | 04:15 pm
On our French farm in the Vendée we are busy removing the covers and cloches from the lettuce, spinach and turnips as fast as we dare. They are growing lush in the sun, out of the cold easterly wind, ...
Risks &Amp; Spring Swimming 27 Mar 2013 | 06:09 pm
Donald Rumsfeld called them ‘unknown unknowns’; the risks that you didn’t even consider. I contemplate this as I walk round my farm in the French Vendée and ponder three years of mistakes and learning...
Cider &Amp; Nuts 22 Mar 2013 | 04:33 pm
We have cabbage plants ready and waiting for a break in the weather, with lettuce due next week. The ground is too wet and with the outlook unsettled we must be patient and be sure to take our chances...
Planting, Fishing &Amp; Awards 15 Mar 2013 | 06:06 pm
Over half of you grow some of your own veg. Unfortunately, given our climatic limitations, you tend to grow the same crops as us. A few of you have even credited us with inspiring you to get the spade...
Bovine Delight 8 Mar 2013 | 02:43 pm
The cows were turned out yesterday. It was a gloriously warm, bright spring morning and after four months inside eating silage they were certainly happy to taste fresh grass again and feel the turf un...
More Than You Need To Know About Muck 1 Mar 2013 | 02:59 am
The winters of my childhood were dominated by muck. 200 cows produce a lot of it and the dung pit always seemed to be spilling out into the yard, making shifting it a constant challenge. It might not ...
Conditioned To Forget 21 Feb 2013 | 05:02 pm
As I write, our root harvesters are edging across some of our better drained ground, lifting parsnips and Jerusalem artichokes. High pressure has brought a week of sunshine and drying easterlies. By t...
Every Meat Bolognese 15 Feb 2013 | 08:49 pm
Personally, I don’t have a problem with eating horse. It might make perfect sense to eat a fallen racehorse or a Dartmoor pony at the end of its life. Even a Romanian cart horse might be OK in a stew,...
Fifteen Years On: Gm Revisited &Amp; Golden Rice 8 Feb 2013 | 06:08 pm
15 years ago I took the government to the High Court in London to challenge the legality of some GM maize trials bordering our farm in Devon. Encouraged by my father and a group of Totnes radicals, I ...
