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Article in the this weeks addition: Farmers Weekly – Sunday 10th August The tyranny of supermarkets continues and their demand for flawless vegetables is bordering on the obsessive. Top plant breeders speak out about how the pursuit of an ideal ‘skin…
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If anyone knows a journalist in the Guardian Newspaper, or any journalist, who want to increase knowledge about compost toilets – please ask them to write to us. There have been several articles recently about this subject since Glastonbury and…
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In the IPC2015 – That’s the International Permaculture Convergence 2015 that will be held in London, a joint presentation will be made by Albert Bates, author of the Biochar Solution and Richard Higgins, author of the Lost Science of Organic…
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Richard Higgins has developed and run the worlds fastest compost toilet system in the world now for over 18 years. The system know as HH-2 is scheduled for Africa and India in the autumn and offers the most benefit to…
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This innovative rocket stove was designed on the Well End Micro-farm by Matt Coston and Richard Higgins. It has now been finally tweaked to boil a LITRE of water in 3 minutes. Come and build rocket stoves in the green…
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April 2014 The Bergerac region of south west France saw the first installation of HH-2 The Plum Village Buddhist community are located here with 3 farms. The system had been discovered on the internet by the funders of the Plum…
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140703-1028a.mp3 This discussion starts at 3.12 on transmission of TB in cattle. No one has considered soil fertility as a factor. The discussion involves the Farming Minister George Eustice and scientists from Warwick and Cambridge Universities. He says we have…
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A visitor to Well End told me recently that in the UK all children are given a vitamin K injection at the time of birth, unless you specifically refuse this offer. What supplies vitamin K. If we simply google this…
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When fresh organic material undergoes decomposition in soil, both the rate of decomposition and the amount of humus formed are related to the C:N ratio of the residue. When other conditions are equal, the rate of decomposition increases as the…
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7th June 2014 pod cast on Newcastle University trying to solve aphids that infest many crops. Rothamsted have also been trying to solve this problem for 50 years. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140606-0951a.mp3 (starts at 3.0 minutes in) They are…
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