SAVING HORSE RACING IN JERSEY
HORSE racing enthusiasts have donated £15,000 in just one week in response to a fundraising campaign launched by the Jersey Race Club to save the future of local racing. The Island’s lockdown restrictions, imposed in March to prevent the spread of COVID-19, forced the 188-year-old club to delay the start of the 2020 season. It […]
PLAN TO REMOVE SEA LETTUCE FROM ST AUBIN’S BAY
INFRASTRUCTURE staff have come up with a new plan for removing the large amounts of sea lettuce that have accumulated in St Aubin’s Bay since temperatures rose to consistently high levels. Until now, the landing craft used to transport sea lettuce out to an approved dumping ground at sea needed spring tides to approach the […]
NEW STATES VET TAKES UP POSITION
A NEW permanent Chief Veterinary Officer has been appointed. Alistair Breed, who has more than 30 years’ experience of State Veterinary medicine, has taken up his role at the Department for Growth, Housing and Environment. He replaces Interim Chief Vet Brian Smith, who was appointed to temporarily fill the position last May, while a […]
NEWS FROM ‘CAP EDEN’
In 2016 Philip Gray retired from his teaching post at Victoria College and with his wife, the artist Anna (Le Moine Gray), bought a dilapidated old farmhouse in a remote part of western Brittany. He has sent us an update on their life in what they call ‘Cap Eden’ ‘DEMAT‘ FROM RURAL BRITTANY! FOUR years […]
RURAL CLASSICS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS – by J R R Tolkien Critique of ENTS ELVES AND ERIADOR: The environmental vision of J R R Tolkien – by Mathew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans Obtainable through Amazon This is one of an occasional series by Alasdair Crosby , on books that might be considered to be ‘RURAL […]
WILD FLOWERS IN FIELDS AND ORCHARDS
USING marginal land around fields and in gardens beneficially is the aim of Alan Le Maistre at Vintage Farm. Working with his twin brother and cousin, Charles and John Le Maistre at their Le Tacheron Farm, Trinity, they plant 10 percent of their cornfields in traditional annual flowers to improve biodiversity. He said: ‘Our wildflower […]
NEW DATA SHOW PREVIOUS ESTIMATES OF THE CLIMATE IMPACT OF CATTLE GRAZING ARE OFF
Report by Rothamsted Research SCIENTISTS have shown that direct emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas from certain pasture types are lower than previously thought – meaning the climate impact of grass-fed cattle herds may be overestimated. The team from Rothamsted Research found urine from animals reared on pasture where white clover grows – a plant […]
THE RURAL JERSEY LANDSCAPE AWARDS
The awards evening was held on Thursday evening 16 July, as part of the Jersey Summer Exhibition at CCA Galleries, Hill Street. The winning picture in the 2020 –RURAL Jersey Landscape Awards was Celina Borfiga’s Rocco Tower. Runner up was Anna Le Moine Gray’s Soir d’Hiver – St Aubin. The winner of the third place […]
From the Archives: THE VERSATILE JERSEY COW IN SOUTH AMERICA
By DERRICK FRIGOT This article appeared in the very first issue of RURAL in the spring of 2013. Derrick at the time (he has since retired) was the president of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau. Following his return from a Bureau visit to South America in 2012, he reported on the advantages of keeping the […]
JERSEY HONEY INTENSIVE HAND CREAM IS AWARDS WINNER
A LOCAL product, Jersey Honey Intensive Hand Cream has been made a Global Awards winner by ‘Pure Beauty’ magazine, which has named it Best New Hand & Nail Product in its Global Awards 2020. In its award announcement, it stated: Jersey Honey Intensive Hand Cream places nature’s great golden gift – quite literally – in […]