Blogs
7/7/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Shop
After including Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside by Jake Fiennes in our newsletter on Tuesday we have received a large number of orders for the new book.
23/6/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Farming
It is indeed sad that the iconic purring call of the turtle dove in summer is now a rarity, but the efforts of a group of farmers and land managers in southern England is giving real cause for hope.
16/6/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Nature , GWCT Partners , Farming
On Sunday 12th June, the South Avon and Stour Agricultural Society held their Open Farm Sunday event at Bisterne Estate near Ringwood.
16/5/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , Farming
The war in Ukraine has added to the pressures farmers are facing through increasing input costs of the three F’s; fuel, feed and fertiliser. These could be short-term impacts but they come at a time when the industry is facing longer-term upheaval due to reductions in post-Brexit farm support, labour shortages and the impacts of trade and environmental policies.
12/4/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , Farming
Watch GWCT advisor Jess Brooks and her family describe their experiences of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on their Isle of Wight farm.
17/3/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Policy
As food consumers we are bombarded by meal deals and multi-buy deals. The focus on the cost of sustaining ourselves is very real given recent food price inflation - and for many a costly monthly outgoing.
10/3/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , Rotherfield
A new ‘Wildlife Plot’ agri-environment option, which promises to be one of the best yet for biodiversity, has been developed as part of the GWCT’s PARTRIDGE Project on the Rotherfield Estate in Hampshire.
24/2/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Policy , Nature
The announcement of the Landscape Recovery element of the Environmental Land Management Scheme was greeted with enthusiasm by those who advocate rewilding approaches.
20/1/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
At our demonstration farm, the Allerton project, we have undertaken research to understand what constitutes a healthy soil and how to measure constituents such as soil moisture as well as research considering the role of soil in crop production “in the round” i.e. from both a sustainable and profitable perspective.
13/1/2022 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
In the wake of COP26, climate change is something many of us are thinking about – and rightly so. Following COP21 in 2015, 195 nations committed to try to keep the global average temperature no more than 2°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, aiming for less than 1.5°C of warming. You might then be asking, why 1.5°C?