WOULD YOU LIKE A VINEYARD IN JERSEY?
A small vineyard of half a vergée on a côtil near St Catherine’s has become available for anyone interested in the idea of paying a small rent and doing the branchage – in exchange for 150 bottles of wine (in a good year). The present occupant, Ewen Hare, said: ‘It’s a hobby but still quite […]
THE JERSEY FARMING CONFERENCE 2020 – NOW ON VIDEO!
As reported already in RURAL POST, the annual Jersey Farming Conference took place on 5 November. All the speakers’ presentations were recorded on video, and these have now been have now been uploaded and are available to be viewed. The link is: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuG8tWKTlYLQ9JEPe9cHjdNYhadMKKc8L The conference was organised by Farm Jersey, and sponsored by Jersey Water […]
TIMBER FRAME PREFABRICATED AND MODERN CONSTRUCTION METHODS
Sponsored article by Baufritz architect Anthony Cooper Brick and block construction are what most people associate with housebuilding, so much so that the term ‘bricks and mortar’ represent stability in the English language. This building method typically has an outer layer of brick, a cavity, and an inner layer of concrete blocks. Although this is […]
CRIME DOES PAY…
… for bestselling crime novelist Peter James, who has swapped Sussex by the sea for Jersey in the ocean. His new book, ‘I’ll follow you’ was published in October and has a Jersey setting. He talked to Alasdair Crosby. IN Peter James’ office, there is a prominent notice: ‘Careful, or you might end up in […]
THE JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – LOOKING FORWARD TO 2021
By JSO administrator, Anne Eastham We are looking forward in the hope that we can pick up where we left off in April and so we are actively planning (subject to Government regulations) an Easter Concert on April 10th 2021 – venue to be announced. Our musical director, Hilary Davan Wetton, working from his long […]
EUNE FROUQU’THÉE D’JÈRRIAIS – (A FORKFUL OF JÈRRIAIS)
The first in a series of article in Jèrriais – Jersey’s own traditional native language. The ‘frouque’ in question is a digging fork, rather than a table fork. An English translation follows. The first in our series is from David Marett (David Mathet) Et bein nouos r’véchîn acouo eune fais dans un monde pas exactément […]
REPORT BY EU ADVISOR: PANDEMIC SIGNALS BREACHING OF PLANETARY ‘TIPPING POINT’ BY GLOBAL ECONOMY
A new study by a top advisor to an EU-backed scientific research programme concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic is a symptom of global industrial civilisation’s breach of key planetary boundaries, which are critical to maintaining a safe operating space for human survival on the planet. The global economy, the study warns, has now entered a […]
TEN MILES MORE AND COUNTING….
Donna Le Marrec of the National Trust for Jersey gives an update on the trust’s hedge planting project in conjunction with The Jersey Royal Company. Ten miles of hedgerow were planted last winter and over the summer a wonderful team of volunteers have natured and tended to over 20,000 native saplings that make up the […]
JERSEY FARMING CONFERENCE: THE FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR UK FARMING
This presentation was delivered by the executive editor of Farmers Weekly, Philip Clarke The subject of this presentation is a slightly risky task given that we still exist on shifting sands, both in terms of our future relationship with other countries and the future of domestic farm policy. Having said that, we did have our […]
JERSEY FARMING CONFERENCE – Contribution from Geraint Richards
GERAINT RICHARDS Mr Richards is the Head Forester for the Duchy of Cornwall. The following is a slightly abridged version of a speech delivered (virtually) to the Jersey Farming Conference, 2020. He studied forestry at Bangor University, then spent four years subsequently working for the Forestry Commission in Kent and Sussex, then secured the position […]