Suspending my account until Twitter sorts itself out. Resource efficiency, soil health, regenerative land use and ecological restoration.
Joined December 2014
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Lukie Tolhurst retweeted
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
theguardian.com/science/2022…
Gardeners World episode 25, 30mins in Natural England's Soil Scientist, Matthew Shepherd, introduces soil organisms @GWandShows bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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 fwi.co.uk/regenerative-agric…
Soil Health Scorecard guidelines published by AHDB with benchmarking datasets to check how your soil is doing ahdb.org.uk/news/great-news-…
Raised solar enables integrated energy and food land use, and can be used for crop protection from elements
euronews.com/green/2022/10/1…
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 biovale.org/event/building-c…
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 eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-food… @Eventbrite
University of Virginia 3D-prints living soil walls that sprout greenery dezeen.com/2022/09/05/univer… via @dezeen
Lukie Tolhurst retweeted
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.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-…
#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 cranfield.ac.uk/press/news-2…
A timely reminder by Jonty of the Agroecology principles to get us going yesterday @ORFC @RealFarmED #ORFCinTheField
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
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
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.
