GRAHAM BELL – R.I.P
A few years ago, RURAL magazine organised a series of lectures, titled, What’s for Dinner?, on various aspects of farming and food production. The talks were given by speakers from the UK and their visits were sponsored by the Howard Davis Farm Trust and the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society. One of these speakers, […]
GARDENING FOR BATS
An on-line talk: Gardening for bats and other wildlife, is taking place on 22 March, starting at 7.30 pm, hosted by the Jersey Bat Group. The seemingly small changes that can be made to our green spaces and gardens, especially the way we manage them, can actually add real benefits for wildlife. This talk will […]
WHAT DO DAIRY FARMERS DO ALL DAY?
The Jersey Dairy has launched a fun competition for local children to win a farm tour during May half term. It is part of their latest ‘Meet Our Farmers’ campaign, asking local children what they think dairy farmers do all day. All parents need to do is ask their child that question… What do Dairy […]
THE FUNNIER SIDE OF BRITAIN IN BLOOM
This is the title of an event held by the Jersey Gardening Club on Tuesday 21 March: a talk by Rae Beckwith. Rae is a R.H.S. Britain in Bloom judge and chairman of the Northern Group of the Daffodil Society. Rae is coming over to Jersey to judge the daffodil classes at the RJA&HS Spring Show at The […]
UPDATE FROM THE ROYAL JERSEY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
THE QUEEN’S GREEN CANOPY The RJA&HS will be planting a copse at the Showground: ‘The Queen’s Coppice’ to commemorate the legacy of the Society’s late Patron, HM Queen Elizabeth II. Members have been invited to sponsor a tree and come to the Showground to help with the planting. The design and names of sponsors will […]
WAULK THIS WAY AT AUCHINDRAIN, FOR HOMESPUN HARMONIES
Once a month, during most of the summer season, visitors to Auchindrain, Scotland’s last remaining ‘living museum’ township, can listen to the ladies of Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Group) make a tuneful appearance. Together since 2000, this ten-strong women’s band has performed their traditional Gaelic waulking music at Auchindrain for 15 years and have […]
PLANET LOCAL SUMMIT
‘The most important global gathering focused on localization – ever’ : LOCAL FUTURES – host of the Planet Local Summit. ‘Local Futures’, founded by Helena Norberg-Hodge, is an international non-profit organisation and a pioneer of the new economy movement. It has been raising awareness for four decades about the need to shift direction – away from dependence on […]
JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SPRING CONCERT
The Jersey Symphony Orchestra will be holding its Spring Concert on Saturday 15 April 2023 at Les Quennevais School Concert Hall, St Brelade, starting at 7.30pm. The Orchestra’s principal conductor, Hilary Davan Wetton, returns for this concert, entitled Northern Lights, for which he has selected an exciting programme, unified by the great Northern European tradition […]
SPRING – A TIME FOR PRUNING
Pruning is one of the actions which can be done in March and early April. By Catherine Penny Spring is an exciting season in the garden, buds are bursting and the first flowers are giving us colour so we can forget the grey days of Winter. It is also a time when much work needs […]
MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE – WHAT WE CAN ALL DO TO HELP
Rising sea levels, cloudbursts, flooding, drought and nature loss. They are all indicators of the climate emergency. Ahead of a special environment-themed RURAL in the summer, the magazine’s environment writer, Caroline Spencer, asked sustainability expert Fran van Dijk about what we can all be doing to mitigate climate change. Fran, a former student at Jersey […]