Yesterday, I spent the day on the mainland. 8 Hours of purchasing feed, food and supplies to keep us for the next two or three weeks until I get in again. It is a high pressure game of get as much done in the time you get on the mainland from the red-eye ferry till [...]

I’ve just got my copy of the new Wiggly Wigglers Catalogue–well, my paper copy is still lost in the post somewhere between here and there,1 so I got hold of a digital copy. . .it helps to have contributed to it!–From cover to cover, this is huge! Not only is the catalogue their biggest [...]

The other day, my nephew was giving out about how stupid I must be to let my cattle ruin the field. Didn’t I know any better than to leave them in an acre section and let them churn it all up–wasn’t I supposed to be a smarty pants grazier? Why wasn’t I moving my [...]

Just in case my comments to this propaganda piece don’t get published–I’m posting them here:
“Milk is Milk” is the campaign cry of the just anti-organic, anti-small farmer, anti-raw milk, pro-chemical, pro-gmo, pro-Industry Hudson Institute. There is a plethora of information about Dennis Avery, the Center For Global Food Issues, and the Hudson Institute on the [...]

This is Charlotte. She is the newest member of the Kitchen Garden menagerie. Charlotte, is a Leicester Longwool–a dual-purpose breed dating from the mid-1700’s. Dual-purpose breeds used to be standard, before specificity and market forces took over. Now there are far fewer breeds, but one specifically for each purpose–lots of lean meat, tons of [...]

There really is no value in cheap tools. They are a false economy. In fact, quite often, the cheaper they are, the more they cost. In terms of function, and durability that inexpensive, foreign spade can cost you hours if not days of grief in your work. Twice recently this has been driven home [...]

Chickens are one of the best garden tools money can buy and one of the few garden purchases you can make which pays dividends in the form of fertilizer, eggs and meat too. Hens left to their own in a garden will scratch up and loosen the soil, eat down weeds and consume plant [...]

In my view there is really only one thing each one of us should be doing to fight “Global Warming” and that is building soil. Beyond each one of us creating a “Carbon Footprint” we all take an enormous toll on the global supply of top soil. To rectify this, [...]

If you’re a farmer, eat meat, live in the UK or are concerned about what the USDA is doing in the US with regard to manufactured disease threats, then you need to keep up to date and read Warmwell.
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Dear Richard,
 I am listening to NE 496 and I just have to stop you–if only I could–to beg to differ. In fact if this was a football pitch I would be issuing you a yellow, if not red card. . . .
Waitrose MAY be more expensive, but Waitrose has a dedicated campaign to put more [...]