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Not Great Weather for Our Garden

Spring in SomersetLooking at our garden you'd never know it was spring. It's a smidge ironic that global warming seems to have resulted in tempest and deluge in this corner...

The Wildflower Meadow And The Chicken

A chicken and a wildflower meadow don't seem a natural combination, but in fact they're a match made in heaven. Let me explain. Last year we were approached through the...

Solitary Bees and Wasps

I had an engaging day over the weekend at the Kingcombe Centre in Dorset learning about solitary bees and wasps. I knew a bit about them - particularly solitary bees...

Don't Stall on Sow Stalls!

Sow stalls are a shocking scandal. To my mind, as they're an animal welfare issue they're much more offensive than any meat mislabelling problem, and yet few people even know...

Neonicotinoids again

I'm sure the various campaigns to ban neonicotinoids waged by people like Buglife, the Friends of the Earth and the BBCT are going to carry the day in the UK....

Cats Kill Animals

The cats kill animals debate erupted again last week. There was a study published in the journal Nature which suggested that cats were killing a lot more animals in the...