An article about the future of sustainable farming that I've borrowed from Clive Bright of RareRuminare and also the Organic Trust.
Biofarm 19 – farming for a sustainable future…
Environment
Pesticides Silencing Nature
A synopsis of recent evidence pointing to the terrible damage being wrought by neonicotinoids.
The Mushroom Trail
Where not all is at it seems....
Old Man of the Woods
The Old Man of the Woods: a carving of Lord Kilbracken in the woods at Killegar House, Co Leitrim.
Strange Wild Things
Nature keeps giving and we keep taking...
Balsam Bashing…
Invasive species spreading in Rossmore Park, Monaghan Town, Co Monaghan
Shared: Glennie Kindred, Walking with Trees
Nature Blossoming, Ireland
At Rossmore Forest Park, Monaghan, Ireland.. Spring brings carpets of old woodland bluebells followed on by wild garlic. On the few raised reedy islands, swans build nests and in the water signets learn the business of survival.
When planting trees goes wrong…
Planting trees often conjures up romantic notions of bluebell filled wonderlands under the canopy of old graceful oaks and beeches. But this insightful article in the National Geographic explains how poorly planned forestry planting programmes can do more harm than good. With specific reference to the fires in North America...
A Little Piece of Coppice at Coulmore, Formerly on the Redcastle Estate — NOSAS Archaeology Blog
By Jonathan Wordsworth Cycling regularly along the north shore of the Beauly Firth from North Kessock to Tarradale, I have noted just past Coulmore Point a small patch of woodland with a collection of twisted multi-stemmed trees. Consisting predominantly of oak but with a mixture of species including ash and beech, the trees are widely […] … Continue reading A Little Piece of Coppice at Coulmore, Formerly on the Redcastle Estate — NOSAS Archaeology Blog
McNally's Miscellany 