Posts Tagged ‘ soil ’
Good living on the land
I’d be terrible at farming. Getting up close and a little too personal – hello, lambing season anyone? – with nature. But I love to hear stories of farmers bucking the system and reaping the rewards. Take George and Kate Heathcote. The publicity shots from the British reality TV show, A Farm Life, for which they agreed to be guinea pigs might make them look like an old-fashioned cliche, More →
Farm lobby urges carbon credit
An emissions trading scheme (ETS) that leaves agriculture out of the equation is a mistake, according to the Biological Farmers of Australia. In its response to the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper, the country’s largest organic business and farmer representative group has urged More →
Green cows
It can be a challenging game running cattle on the rangelands of Australia. There is the extreme isolation, the heat and dust, the seasons are unreliable and even when the rain comes, there isn’t much of it. But Scott Fraser, along with a couple of his fellow cattle producers in the channel country of far west Queensland and New South Wales More →
Soil Association Organic Fortnight
September 6 – September 21, 2008
From eco-fashion shows to healthy workshops with schools, in-store food tastings and seminars, Britain will be abuzz with organic happenings for the Soil Association Organic Fortnight. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the environmental, health and social benefits of organic production through events the length and breadth of the More →
Paul Newman led the way
When a screen legend dies, the fawning tributes quickly follow. In death they somehow become not only brilliant thespians, but stellar human beings. And so it was with the passing of Paul Newman at the weekend, with many describing him as having lived an “exemplary life”. The difference, however, is it’s hard to argue with that or any of the accolades that have been bestowed upon the owner of those sparkling blue eyes since the world learnt of his death from cancer at 83. More →
Dig the dirt
For many people reading this, there is nothing alluring about soil, not even the sweet, consistency-of-crumbled-chocolate-cake organic variety. Like a jolly good pair of wellington boots, you can’t sex it up either. The idea of plunging a hand into tilled soil, deeply inhaling its richness and marvelling at the worms More →
Milking it
Two glasses of cold, fresh, full-cream cow’s milk. Around the base of each one, fat drops of condensation bulge and fall. To the naked eye, the contents of both glasses appear to be exactly the same; they are both the colour of translucent, fine-bone china. Appearances aside, these glasses are in fact worlds apart. The milk in one derives from a wide range of dairy More →
