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Perspectives on conservation, land management and investing in agriculture from farmers across the globe
Just before Christmas I attended the funeral of my old housemaster, Forbes Wastie. A man I adored, he also taught biology and in later life was Chair of the local magistrate’s bench. Boyishly, I could seldom resist asking him how that role, “Chair of the bench”, was going. An anecdote told in...
Originally published February 2021. Messing about in boats, you come across all kinds of creatures – but it’s not the wild ones that chew your ear off. Beavers do extraordinary...
Originally published June 2021. Our farms can be both wildlife-friendly and efficiently productive. Nirmal Purja, on completing his unique winter climb to the summit of K2,...
Originally published September 2021. Why preserving the irreplaceable benefits everyone and especially moths. The names of moths are a delicious smorgasbord of rich imagery. Our...
Originally published June 2021. I was five years old when my father decided to move to the north of Scotland, to farm at the edge of the world and the edge of the farming...
Originally published February 2022. Seemingly unused space can be receptacles of history. In the middle of our farmyard sits an empty barn. The footprint is bigger than that of a...
Originally published October 2022. A comparison of today’s inflation context vs that of 1970s. Most economists work for financial firms and their interests are served if markets...
Frog morphology crops up a lot in our descriptions of nature. Babington’s orache (please read on) has frog’s head seeds, toadflax flowers are said to resemble the gape of a toad....
Comparing farmland and property. This commentary argues that farmland values may double over the next 10 years, while over the same 10 years residential and commercial property...
Originally published July 2021. Among the many quotes attributed to Einstein, the following seems most pertinent as we look to the future: ‘'The significant challenges we face...