Tag: British Farming

A GIRL, A GODDESS, AND A THUNDERSTORM

.Reading time 21 minutes.
Close up of a golden calf curled up in the straw.

Today, I’ve got a story I’d like to tell you. It involves a girl, who longed to go outside and see the cows, a heifer, who wasn’t supposed to still be here, and the calf she was never meant to have…

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Another Blow for British Agriculture

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Today, I’m disappointed.
I’m disappointed the majority of our government, including our Prime Minister, voted NOT to make crucial amendments to the Agriculture Bill in parliament, yesterday. Amendments to protect our shelves from imports of food produced in ways which are illegal here.
Food safety standards affect everyone, and here’s why…

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Meet The Moo Monday

.Reading time 5 minutes.

On the first Monday of 2020, I started doing ‘Meet The Moo Monday’ on my blog’s social media accounts. (It actually popped into my head around last November. Every week, I told myself I’d start it, but kept getting cold feet.) What is it? Meet The Moo Monday began as an excuse to introduce our […]

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Seeing Double

.Reading time 11 minutes.
Lincoln Red cow laid with her twin Limousin cross calves in a bed of straw in a stable.

The ‘T’ word… Marmite to Mother Nature. Either prompting catastrophe or elation, depending on the day. Twins…

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The End of an Era

.Reading time 8 minutes.
Black & white photo. Two shire horses, a black one and a grey one, standing around a well in a field, on a farm, with four people. The black one has one of the people sitting on it and the grey is drinking from the well.

A glance at the past, with photos from an almost forgotten time, as one of the final ties to my ancestors comes to an end, and a look into the reasons why…

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Don’t Boycott Local Produce

.Reading time 9 minutes.

If you ate today, whatever it was, then you supported a farmer somewhere in the world; but my question is, if you can, why not support one closer to home?

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Why Britain Needs Livestock

.Reading time 6 minutes.
A herd of beef cows grazing in a grass field, in the British countryside.

Livestock farming appears to be the favoured scapegoat for all problems at the moment. But is losing a part of the fabric of our countryside really the answer it’s being heralded as?

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