REGENERATION
Reprinted with kind permission from the Jersey Evening Post By Alasdair Crosby A rural event, titled ‘ReGen Gathering’, took place in late September. As previously reported, it is set to become a regular feature of the Island’s farming calendar and a forum for innovative ideas. It is focussed on regenerative farming and the community. Like […]
APPLES WORTH SHOUTING ABOUT
By Suzanne Wynn, writing from her home in the apple county of Somerset: Apples are our national fruit, yet I wonder how many people feel excited by them? Community Orchards and events such as Apple Day get people reconnected with this fruit. Apples are our national fruit, yet I wonder how many people feel excited […]
HOWARD DAVIS FARM TRUST CONTRIBUTE TO THE REPLACEMENT OF CATTLE LOST AT WOODLANDS FARM
Moving forward from the tragic loss of part of the dairy herd at Woodlands Farm last year, Jersey Dairy and the farming community have been working together with the Le Boutillier family to grow their herd of Jersey cows back to its former numbers at Woodlands Farm. The Howard David Farm Trust contacted Jersey Dairy […]
CANTABILE SERVICES THIS WINTER
THE JERSEY RE-GEN GATHERING
By Alasdair Crosby. Reprinted by kind permission of the Jersey Evening Post. Picture by Natalie Mayer Photography A NEW rural event, titled ‘ReGen Gathering’, which took place on Friday 29 September, is set to become a regular feature of the Island’s farming calendar and a forum for innovative ideas. It is focused on regenerative farming […]
BLACK BUTTER – LÉ NIÈR BEURRE
Black Butter Making with the National Trust for Jersey, Thursday 5, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 October Peelers, Stirrers and Fillers required…. The National Trust for Jersey will once again be making ‘Black Butter’ at The Elms, La Chève Rue, St. Mary with cider apples from its orchards this week sponsored by Rathbones. Volunteers are […]
THE AUTUMN CATTLE SHOW
Words and pictures by Suzanne Le Feuvre The Autumn Cattle Show of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society took place in warm sunshine on 30 September and 1 October. Shown above is the Grand or Supreme Champion was John Le Feuvre’s Heifer-in-Milk, ‘Elite Colton Sunflower’ (sire Chilli Action Colton ET). Here she is led […]
FARMING MATTERS – JERSEY FARMING CONFERENCE 2023
PLEASE NOTE, as a result of Storm Ciaran, this event has now been postponed until Friday 10 November Registration is now open for this year’s annual Jersey Farming Conference 2023 – Farming Matters, which will take place at La Mare Wine Estate (and on-line) on Thursday 2 November (postponed until 10 November) Each year the […]
PIANO RECITAL BY PENELOPE BLACKIE IN AID OF THE JOHN LOBB MEMORIAL TRUST
Beethoven: Sonata in F# major no. 24 Op. 78 24 October, Jersey Arts Centre 8pm Concert pianist Penelope Blackie will be playing her 16th annual piano recital in Jersey this year. Once again, the recital will be in aid of the John Lobb Memorial Trust. Programme: Chopin – 2 Nocturnes: G minor Op […]
BREXIT AS A CATEGORY ERROR
By our guest contributor, Alexander Boot Was Brexit a success? My friend Tony, a learned and intelligent man but, alas, an empiricist, thinks it was an abject failure. That’s his privilege – we are all entitled to our unsound opinions. Yet the way he argues the case proves the inherent shortcomings of empiricism when it’s […]