by Sara Gregson | May 9, 2013 | Farming & Food
Grazing high yielding dairy cows keeps production costs down on one Kent farm, as I discovered on the first of this year’s BGS/DairyCo/RABDF spring farm walks. William Westacott and his herdsman Richard Evans are dairy farmers operating at the top of their game....
by Sara Gregson | Apr 22, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
A new Welsh Government funded (of almost £600,000) project is looking to isolate and extract sugars and other components from ryegrass, and convert them into products that have a lower carbon footprint than oil. These will include pulp-moulded packaging products for...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 21, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
Grazing guru and biologist Allan Savory recently gave an inspirational TED talk (riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world at www.ted.com). It has already had over 600,000 views – so it’s certainly hitting a chord. His key messages are: ♦ Two thirds of...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 5, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
West Dorset dairy farmer Jason Barber is creating quite a stir with his Black Cow Vodka – launched last May. The world’s first pure milk vodka is made entirely from the milk of grass grazed cows and nothing else. It might sound a bit odd – but nomads in Siberia have...
by Sara Gregson | Feb 14, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
The Prince of Wales is encouraging the planting of at least 60 new wildflower meadows in honour of the diamond anniversary of The Queen’s coronation this year. Species-rich native grassland in this country has been pretty much decimated over the past 70 years, with...
