One hand I really do care about our environment, want it to improve, and better condition for our animals. All will produce better quality food. Personally I buy seasonal organic local food. (only an option to me as there is a shop that offer this, and doesn’t charge a fortune for it. It’s actually less than a supermarket). Better farming practices can and will help the environment greatly, there one farm in the USA (white oak pastures) that actually operates as a carbon sink. Mono cropping is devastating to our soil, and for our bees. And so one, as I could make this into a rather long post.
On the other hand, I recognise that with our current land available for farming and population size we simply can not have every farm in the UK being free range and organic. We simply could not produce engough food to feed everyone. Thus factory farming is required, for as abhorrent as it is.
What are the solution to this, I don’t know. Possible a campaign to encourage people to have working gardens again, could lesser some of the pressure from farmers. Possible ‘vertical’ farms for crops could be a possibility. Thus opening up more land for animals.
Ultimately this particular strategy of paying farming for wild flower meadow to me seem like a good one. (Open to an counter arguments.on why it’s not). It encourage crop rotation, allowing the soil to ‘heal’ ready for the next harvest. It should also improve our insect population.
Excellent news, especially about restoring peatland.
I’d love to see wild fenced off borders on land used for grazing. The sheep kill everything and it’ll be nice to see trees, shrubs and wildflowers on the hills.
We need to balance food self sufficiency with the environment. I’m a massive ecological proponent, food miles come into that and we should not sacrifice our food production for ecological management.
Animal agriculture needs to be curtailed massively for one thing, yet that won’t be encouraged by such proposals any way. It is a huge polluter in terms of greenhouse gases and water pollution, yet we refuse to acknowledge this because people refuse to change their diets. This would free up land for crops, especially as we could repurpose the land used to grow animal feed too, which would do a lot more to help the environment than just encouraging hedgerows and setting aside land for wildlife alone.
Farms need to do more for the environment, however urban areas have a much bigger part to play. We need big proposals for urban areas to match those on farms at the same time, otherwise we are placing the burden solely on rural areas.
Another money grab operation that will be abused by landowners.
Can I get the subsidy for growing wildflowers in my garden?
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I’m always torn on this one.
One hand I really do care about our environment, want it to improve, and better condition for our animals. All will produce better quality food. Personally I buy seasonal organic local food. (only an option to me as there is a shop that offer this, and doesn’t charge a fortune for it. It’s actually less than a supermarket). Better farming practices can and will help the environment greatly, there one farm in the USA (white oak pastures) that actually operates as a carbon sink. Mono cropping is devastating to our soil, and for our bees. And so one, as I could make this into a rather long post.
On the other hand, I recognise that with our current land available for farming and population size we simply can not have every farm in the UK being free range and organic. We simply could not produce engough food to feed everyone. Thus factory farming is required, for as abhorrent as it is.
What are the solution to this, I don’t know. Possible a campaign to encourage people to have working gardens again, could lesser some of the pressure from farmers. Possible ‘vertical’ farms for crops could be a possibility. Thus opening up more land for animals.
Ultimately this particular strategy of paying farming for wild flower meadow to me seem like a good one. (Open to an counter arguments.on why it’s not). It encourage crop rotation, allowing the soil to ‘heal’ ready for the next harvest. It should also improve our insect population.
Excellent news, especially about restoring peatland.
I’d love to see wild fenced off borders on land used for grazing. The sheep kill everything and it’ll be nice to see trees, shrubs and wildflowers on the hills.
We need to balance food self sufficiency with the environment. I’m a massive ecological proponent, food miles come into that and we should not sacrifice our food production for ecological management.
Animal agriculture needs to be curtailed massively for one thing, yet that won’t be encouraged by such proposals any way. It is a huge polluter in terms of greenhouse gases and water pollution, yet we refuse to acknowledge this because people refuse to change their diets. This would free up land for crops, especially as we could repurpose the land used to grow animal feed too, which would do a lot more to help the environment than just encouraging hedgerows and setting aside land for wildlife alone.
Farms need to do more for the environment, however urban areas have a much bigger part to play. We need big proposals for urban areas to match those on farms at the same time, otherwise we are placing the burden solely on rural areas.
Another money grab operation that will be abused by landowners.
Can I get the subsidy for growing wildflowers in my garden?