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I also use it for tea regularly in Spring/Summer. Once they're seeding I use the seeds for tea. If I have enough time to collect them I'll store the seeds for a garnish over winter…

The firewood can be harvested as part of a coppice rotation too, e.g a woodland broken up into 8 coupes with one harvested selectively each year, then starting again at the beginni…

It sounds like there have been some changes to the Guardian and Observer lately, such as the sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media. [0] Journalists were concerned enough to strike…

It's not as simple as just installing more wind turbines. The grid needs improvement and we need things like regional pricing. See https://wastedwind.energy for example.

There's a 3 part podcast series on good bread from the great UK-based regen farming podcast Farmerama https://farmerama.co/arable/good-bread-part-1-what-is-good-b... Dips into this…

Another interview with Jon Moses: https://novaramedia.com/2023/07/13/novara-fm-revenge-of-the-... Putting the 'right to roam' movement in a greater context. Coming about after de-p…

There's also a recent interview with the same title on the Debunking Economics podcast https://debunkingeconomics.com/episode/yanos-varoufakis-on-t...

I love growing (and eating) Frank Morton’s lettuces. If I recall correctly, a lettuce variety he bred was grown in space. Here’s a good podcast interviewing him, also touching on O…

I wonder if they knew they were coppicing the tree, rather than killing it. Thankfully the tree will continue to grow, I think the land managers have chosen to leave the tree there…

I've been building a private app on the side for market gardens (veghub.co) to manage their knowledge, plan their growing season and manage their weekly tasks. It's a really intere…

We have a similar invasive worm in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe: New Zealand Flatworm and Australian Flatworm. I've lost count of the number of NZ flatworms that I've killed in…

I think the exterior insulation is kind of taking the place of the cladding or rain screen here. I suspect it also as an air gap. But I suppose you could affix a rain screen to it,…

As others have said, circumstances have changed (Brexit). The handling of Covid was a reminder too. Consistently rules would (or would not) be made in the south, yet here in Scotla…

For anyone interested in the kind of timber framing used in these buildings, here are a couple of videos that I've been enjoying: Carl Rogers & family are restoring an old French f…

The midges are definitely still here. Not sure how it compares to the past, but I haven't heard anyone say they're getting better.

North coast of Scotland, as far north as you can go on the mainland. Dark winters and long summer daylight. Didn't move here to start a farm (moved for the surf), but started a sma…

There's a woodland on Hoy, Orkney's wildest looking island, which is a great snapshot of what a real native Orkney woodland would look like. There are no deer on Orkney, so the woo…

I recommend whathappenedlastweek.com for a thoughtful, curated weekly email summarising under-reported news. Helpful for resisting the urge to hunt news out.

Another good resource is https://www.neighbourhoodconstruction.org e.g their page on Thermal Envelope > Bio aggregate https://www.neighbourhoodconstruction.org/bio-aggregate/

This also occurs in Australia, resulting in mammalian meat allergy. Some more information here https://allergy.org.au/patients/insect-allergy-bites-and-sti...

I've started a small market garden here on the far north coast of Scotland ( https://www.instagram.com/burnlea.farm ). Growing veggies for the local community, trees from local see…

Lovely project. Something that jumped out to me as I browsed around Edinburgh is the app highlighting Japanese Knotweed as a "very rare" tree. It's actually a very invasive species…

These days many new builds are using air source or ground source heat pumps. And existing dwellings are beginning to be retrofitted for them. I don't have numbers, but I expect tha…

Farms have continued to grow, echoing Earl Butz' (Nixon's Secretary of Ag) "get big or get out" philosophy. However, there are several studies out there showing that a greater port…

Also his latest book Regenerative Agriculture. Mostly composed of varied farm enterprises with financial details amd so on. Pick and choose the enterprises that appeal to you and w…