by Sara Gregson | Mar 27, 2017 | Farming & Food
With Pasture Promise milk now selling in 109 Asda stores and Waitrose milk being promoted heavily in their weekly newspaper – it looks like consumers are starting to care how cows spend their days. With Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty shouting their cause, it is no...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 1, 2017 | Farming & Food
A couple of weeks ago I headed off from Cambridge on Monday morning and travelled to the far South West, making it back home on Friday. During the week I visited three fantastic farmers and attended a conference, where the discussions were all about grass! My first...
by Sara Gregson | Jan 12, 2017 | Farming & Food
Welcome to the new updated “talking grass” blog and, now for the first time a shop – a project that has been in my head for many months, even years! I first set up TalkingGrass in 2011 to share all the wonderful grassy stories I come across through my work as a...
by Sara Gregson | Dec 20, 2016 | Farming & Food
I am so pleased that British Grassland Society director Elaine Jewkes has secured money from the Prince’s Countryside Fund to train farmer mentors, so they can go out and help other farmers gain more from grazing. In the latest issue of Grass and Forage Farmer...
by Sara Gregson | Nov 29, 2016 | Gardening & Environment
I have read so much about New York City’s re-invented, re-planted goods railway line – that to be walking along it was like a dream. I could hardly believe I was there last week. The High Line is a long and winding park – a place for walking and a place for reflection...