by Sara Gregson | Oct 22, 2012 | Gardening & Environment
Gloucestershire cattle farmers Paul and Kirsty Westaway produce the best beef in the world – and that’s official! In a recent blind taste trial carried out by EBLEX, which compared steaks from around the world – including the USA, South America and Australia...
by Sara Gregson | Sep 21, 2012 | Farming & Food
Well done to the UK’s Pasture-Fed Livestock Association for getting everything in place (on the tightest of budgets) to allow producers who feed only grass and conserved forage, to market their meat under the new PASTORAL brand. Set up as a community interest company,...
by Sara Gregson | Sep 7, 2012 | Gardening & Environment
Marram grass – that grey, green prickly grass that catches your legs when climbing up sand dunes, is fantastically adapted to life by the sea. Metres-long roots reach down in search of moisture, while creeping stems called rhizomes extend widthways below the surface,...
by Sara Gregson | Aug 20, 2012 | Farming & Food
Northern Ireland beef producer Sam Chesney is riding high as last year’s Farmers Weekly Beef Farmer of the Year, and making it to the final of the British Grassland Society’s National Grassland Management Competition this year. But, as 160 farmers heard at a recent...
by Sara Gregson | Aug 2, 2012 | Gardening & Environment
A project that set out to restore 200ha (490 acres) of traditional hay meadows in the Yorkshire Dales National Park over five years has successfully increased species richness, species diversity and meadow composition in 141 fields since 2006 by introducing locally...
