Agriculture - analyst, strategist & writer. Seeking sustainable systems to mimic Nature. Always joining the dots. Past British Honorary Consul in Transylvania.
Sunny South-East of Ireland
Joined August 2014
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A brilliant summary - it is about restoring ecosystems from the soil up using the best tool in the box, the well-managed ruminant. By understanding Nature's complex systems we will discover the genuine solutions.
Restoring the Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity Through Regenerative Grazing: A Holistic Framework for Methane, Hydroxyl Radicals, and the Carbon Cycle
lachefnet.wordpress.com/2026…
New blog that's a compilation of a lot of old blogs.
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What do these COP "summits" achieve?
50,000 people will fly to Brazil.
They're building a 4-lane road through rain-forest to get them there from airports!!!
The bottom line is that change has to come from cosumers for any issue, whether climate or other.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vy…
Support Irish farmers and growers affected by storm Éowyn - Sign the Petition! chng.it/FHy9B9tqHC via @Change
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If over 2/3 of your intended audience lose 100 days of life every year, where’s the ‘healthy’ and ‘balanced’ in that? Type 1’s were bolted on to this hyperglycaemic, hyperinsulinaemic diet designed for people with functioning pancreases. We need a diet specific to our needs.
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Snow! Tree lines and hedgrows provide shelter for livestock. If you have established woodland on your farm, it can make a great living barn, hay and silage can be fed inside it. Photo credit: Brett Chedzoy.
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Domeignoz-Horta, L.A. et al. 2024. Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
cc. @Permaculture123 @samdknowlton @ffinlocostain @IntegratedSoils
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Delighted to have won the Net Zero Nature Award at the @HolyroodEvents Climate Action Awards for ‘Holistic Agroecology in Action’. It means a lot to us, naturally, but recognition that regenerative agriculture can deliver big net zero impacts is especially rewarding & meaningful
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This event has been cancelled for next Wednesday would appreciate if people could retweet.
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Ah the productivity paradox. The more efficient we become, the lower the cost of production and so the lower the market seeks a level. There is a future for large scale super efficient (at low cost, some who feel they are efficient are so at high cost!) and low cost base production but those in the middle need to have a serious plan for the future. Ours is to stop commodity production and focus on added value and supply chain control.
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This is why nutrient density of food is key We need to produce not just food but nutrient dense food So many are overfed but undernourished @samdknowlton @PastureForLife @DrDuaneRD @DoctorChrisVT @SBakerMD @Groundswellaguk
🚨 Alarming new findings in @LancetGH:
Over HALF the world lacks essential nutrients like iron, folate, and calcium. Our global study reveals the global burden of #HiddenHunger across ages and genders. We must act now to end this health crisis.
thelancet.com/journals/langl…
Guy Martin at @RollsRoyce last night re. jet engines. The latter developing engines to use 'sustainable' vegetable oils. FGS where are they getting their advise? Veg oils are about food first & competitive with each other, for land & plant nutrients & rarely good for biodiversity
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Insulin causes renal sodium and fluid retention putting blood pressure up We blame salt for what the sugar did!! Our paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3135…
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I feel regenerative agriculture and lifestyle medicine have some shared goals Can we produce nutrient dense food that does not put blood sugar up in a sustainable way ?? Here I am speaking to an audience of farmers at the amazing @Groundswellaguk
One of my heroes, Dr. David Unwin, speaking at Groundswell 2024.
Building bridges.
Regenerating Public Health.
@lowcarbGP @Groundswellaguk
youtu.be/TpeHSlpMrvk?si=MDvl…
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Great to see growing recognition of the crucial role of regenerative grazing in healing degraded soil, increasing water & food security, restoring wildlife habitat, improving resilience to droughts & floods, rejuvenating rural economies, and sequestering carbon.
@soil4climate
Here’s What’s On The Table For Food Systems At COP29 via @forbes forbes.com/sites/daphneewing…
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Healing degraded soil enables it to infiltrate rain much faster and store vastly more water, reducing the impact of higher temperatures, erratic precipitation, droughts, and floods.
Soil restoration = climate resilience.
nrdc.org/experts/lara-bryant…
@soil4climate
Sadly there is little to disagree with, educational systems are now too narrowly focused and seperated from Society's actual needs.
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181: Farming and Soil Biodiversity with Stuart Meikle youtu.be/c-nRIxi-lRY?si=VFab… via @YouTube Tommy managed to talk me into doing a podcast with him. For me a change from using the written word. Does it work?
181: Farming and Soil Biodiversity with Stuart Meikle youtu.be/c-nRIxi-lRY?si=VFab… via @YouTube Tommy managed to talk me into doing a podcast with him. For me a change from using the written word. Does it work?
