This Is The House That You Built
Why should a self-build project have to come to a halt, just because of current difficult times? If you have a project and are in the process of designing or completing a change to designs, come and join head architect and the UK chief executive officer of ‘Baufritz’, Oliver Rehm, for an online planning workshop. […]
WIN a luxury sofa topper and travel roll for your lounging hound!
Together with The Lounging Hound we are offering one lucky readerthe chance to win two amazing prizes, worth up to £310. Full details about this competition can be found in the current issue ofRURAL magazine and on our website here.
Spring Time In Jersey – With The Royal Jersey Agricultural And Horticultural Society
IN common with so many other events planned for this spring and early summer, the ‘Summer Country Fair’ of the RJA&HS – due to take place on 13 and 14 June – has also been cancelled, in light of the current and ongoing restrictions issued by the Island government. This follows the cancellation of the society’s Spring […]
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 […]
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 […]