THE COUNTRY COMES TO TOWN
Spring flower displays in town window Shops – 26, 27 and 28 March. By Rachelle Robinson, horticultural secretary to the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society THIS year the Spring flower show of the RJA&HS will have a new element to it: displays in town shop windows on 26, 27 AND 28 March. It is something, […]
WHY EVERYBODY SHOULD ATTEND ORFC (THE OXFORD REAL FARMING CONFERENCE)
A review of last January’s even world-wide, on-line event by India Hamilton, MA (Food and Development), chef and co-founder of SCOOP Sustainable Co-Operative in St Lawrence This year’s Oxford Real Farming conference emerged from the lockdown of COVID by connecting 5,000 farming and food delegates from around the world, all sharing their stories of […]
LETTER FROM SARK – THE SARK COMMUNITY DAIRY
By our Sark correspondent, Richard Axton A lot has happened over the past 12 months: two major lockdowns, restrictions on travel and disruptions of cargoes, mechanical breakdowns, and two of the wettest winter months on record. In the face of all this our team of local craftsmen have made remarkable progressin the construction of a […]
TAKING THINGS SLOWLY
The 2020 lull caused by Covid-19 has been called ‘the great pause’, something which has given everyone an unprecedented opportunity to slow down and really appreciate what’s meaningful. As a trained forest therapy guide, Amanda Bond knows just how important reconnecting to nature is to our health. By Caroline Spencer ‘There has never been a […]