Blogs
EXTRA VIRGIN, AND OTHER, OLIVE OIL (David's Digest)
Olive trees are ubiquitous in Morocco. You see them in avenues alongside roads, scattered, apparently randomly around the countryside, and, of course, in ordered cultivated plantations. One of the best of these visited by the Farmers Weekly Farm Study Tour recently...
I THINK WE SHOULD BE TOLD (David's Digest)
I always check the sits vac pages in Farmers Weekly. Discrimination for age is illegal now and I like to keep an eye on employment possibilities. One colourful half page ad placed by DEFRA in the current edition of FW caught...
A delicious down to earth taste
Juice from the apples that inspired Sir Isaac Newton to discover gravity are among those included in a new heritage drink available in some Co-operative food stores. Now, 1,000 varieties of rare and endangered British apples, including
BLACKBERRY RAGE (David's Digest)
It gives me great pleasure to see people picking blackberries along our roadside hedges. I feel such people must appreciate the countryside. Most are middle aged or elderly. You don't see many young people doing it. And like them I can think...
BUMPER YIELDS AND WILD MUSHROOMS A REAL TREAT` (David's Digest)
It probably doesn't feel like 2008 has been a fecund year to farmers who still have grain to harvest. But my observations suggest most crops have produced exceptional yields this year. That goes for hay, vegetables, roots, top fruit and soft...
Shropshires head for French orchards
Marion and Aubrey Webb from Usher Farm, Gilmorton, Lutterworth, are the first British farmers to export pedigree Shropshire Down sheep to France, specifically for use in commercial fruit tree cultures. A consignment of 27 animals left the Webb's farm at...
Eau de Manure (Food for Thought)
When I found out I was going to visit a 2000-cow dairy, the last thing I expected I’d compare it to was my local branch of the Body Shop. The final day of the World Ag Expo in California, I...
A fruitful season (Kids Connect campaign blog)
Craig writes: I have seen plenty of combines around so I suppose that marks the start of the spring barley harvest in our area although as I write we haven’t started yet. Some people have only just sheared their...
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