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 | Aug 9, 2016 | Farming & Food
Bravo to BBC1s Jules Hudson for taking the time to explore the difference between summer ‘fresh grass-fed’ milk, and winter milk in an episode of CountryFile Summer Diaries this week. He visited an iconic ice cream parlour on the Gower in South Wales, where the ice...
by Sara Gregson | Jul 18, 2016 | Gardening & Environment
It was National Meadows Day on 2 July this year – the second time this celebration of meadows at the peak of their gloriousness has taken place. More than 100 events took place across the country, on nature reserves, country parks and other sites, with guided walks,...
by Sara Gregson | Nov 13, 2015 | Farming & Food
It was great to see Paul Bird the other day, the first New Zealand grassland consultant to set up discussion groups here, and encouraging dairy farmers to stop using feeder wagons and produce more milk from grazed grass. Paul started in 1997. He just happened to be...
by Sara Gregson | Oct 23, 2015 | Gardening & Environment
I saw grass specialist Neil Lucas the other day at the Hertfordshire Group of the Hardy Plant Society talking about the use of grass in gardens in California and Las Vegas. I have never been to the west coast of America, but Neil told us that new houses are still...