The Jersey Summer Exhibition
ALTHOUGH the CCA International galleries in Hill Street are temporarily closed, preparations are continuing for the Jersey Summer exhibition. The dates for the Jersey Summer Exhibition are Friday 19 June to Wednesday 29 July. Gallery director Sasha Gibb was adamant that the show would go on – whatever the coronavirus situation. She said: ‘As the […]
Island Ecology And Biodiversity
The Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies is offering a one-week summer school in Island Ecology and Biodiversity as part of its Life Long Learning programme. The short course covers a range of topics, including island ecology, island biodiversity, invasive species on islands and island and climate change. There will be four days of lectures […]
How To Get Rural Delivered To Your Door!
We are especially grateful to our friends and neighbours who are providing a home delivery service and have said that with every home delivery they will also deliver a copy of the latest (Spring) edition of RURAL Fungi Delecti – home deliveries! The company houses over 1,600 product lines and delivers over 150 full pallets […]
Anyone for £22,000?
No one, surely? If this offer may be of some potential interest, however, please note that this applies exclusively to registered charities: the West Show Association is disbanding and is planning to disburse its funds – some £22,000 – to registered Jersey charities with aims similar to its own aims. These include: ‘to provide and encourage […]
RURAL MAGAZINE – NEW WEBSITE
‘THINGS are looking up.’ I cannot believe I wrote this on what we call the magazine’s ‘Welcome page’ just a couple of weeks ago. It is one of the very last things that get written in each edition, so this up-beat reflection was e-penned on 9 March. What a difference a few days makes! […]
WHY ARE JERSEY’S SOILS BEING POISONED?
GLYN MITCHELL, whose contributions to RURAL we look forward in forthcoming issues, asks: If herbicides are so good, why do we still have weeds? Kill it and claim it Recycle and regenerate PEOPLE tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But this is not necessarily the case – and hasn’t […]
GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS…
Managing director of Signtech, SEAN GUEGAN, is joining RURAL as a columnist in the next issue. RURAL is not a business magazine – there are enough of them already in the Island – but we will be concentrating on the sector often overlooked: small, family businesses, grounded in Jersey and in community life. In his […]
CONCERN FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT? – YES, BUT ONLY SELECTIVELY PERHAPS
By MIKE STENTIFORD, former National Trust for Jersey president and regular contributor to RURAL magazine ALL of us are now fully aware of the remarkably explosive environmental ‘wake up call’ following the BBC’s epic milestone television series ‘Blue Planet II’. The disastrous consequences of plastic waste on our oceans and marine life has finally been […]
DOT COM OR DOTCOMBE?
RURAL’s editor ALASDAIR CROSBY kicks off a regular blog from the magazine’s contributors. ——— I LIVE in the land of Dot Com, but how I wish I still lived in Dotcombe. Dot Com is a busy place at the moment. RURAL magazine has jumped into the 21st Century – 18 years late, of course, […]
THE BOAT IN THE MORNING
ON 23 April an artist collective known as the Futurefarmers will sail into Jersey on board the RS10 Christiania, as they travel from Oslo to Istanbul with the Seed Journey. On board are will be five artists, two captains, a navigator and a cook. Afterwards they will move on to Samarès Manor for baking and […]