The positive thread
- Thread starter Aspiring Peasants
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kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Have just been asked to ‘like’ a friends farm Facebook page- a new entrant dairy farm at the other end of the county.
Specialising in direct to consumer milk sales. The third new start up dairy (that I am aware of- there may be more) in Hampshire in the last 3 years.
Specialising in direct to consumer milk sales. The third new start up dairy (that I am aware of- there may be more) in Hampshire in the last 3 years.
Two friends wished me happy birthday and it’s not even today 
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
It vexes me that the system is geared very much against what I’m doing right their ! It’s all about the big boys and the super market sweep.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
.holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
Some wildlife groups be horrified about pigs in woodlands. But personally I think it's ok.View attachment 991034This wood was dead in the bottom until pigs tidied it up, they love eating grass among the trees
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Would they why ? What about wild boar ?
- Location
- sw scotland
Farm near is going to rewilding some areas. Getting some pigs in first
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
If I had a reliable out let for a lot more pigs I’d use them to reclaim not re wild
they are soil improvers pigs !!
- Location
- sw scotland
I presume the idea is they clean it up then the right stuff grows. My limited attempts to 'rewild' scrubby corners under an old environmental scheme has thorns, bracken and brambles taking over
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Because it isn't the natural way they prefer...
Old Boar
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- Location
- West Wales
After a spell on life support I swore I would take more enjoyment from life and live each day, hour, minute as if it were my last.
Of course this is impossible, but I do take time to just stand and stare, The dew on a cobweb, unfurling leaves, the texture of a new beech leaf, the smell of rain on dry ground, two robins shouting their lungs out challenging for their space, even the sound I make trying to walk in the slightly underwater fields. Surrounded by wonderful sights, sounds, smells and tastes, I am determined not to hurry though life any more.
Watching a flock of duck fly in to my lake tonight against the fading light and the new moon - just bliss!
Of course this is impossible, but I do take time to just stand and stare, The dew on a cobweb, unfurling leaves, the texture of a new beech leaf, the smell of rain on dry ground, two robins shouting their lungs out challenging for their space, even the sound I make trying to walk in the slightly underwater fields. Surrounded by wonderful sights, sounds, smells and tastes, I am determined not to hurry though life any more.
Watching a flock of duck fly in to my lake tonight against the fading light and the new moon - just bliss!
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I hope they enjoy starvation. The natural way would be hunting gathering , we passed that stage long ago .Because it isn't the natural way they prefer...
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
There is the risk of pigs eating wild flowers
- Location
- Ceredigion
Flue Jab today , being positive that I won't be I'll this time
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
Had mine yesterday and feeling fine today. No excuse for skiving
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
That rather reminds me of the motto of my favourite author, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB':
The wonder of the world
The beauty and the power,
The shapes of things,
Their colours, lights and shades,
These I saw.
Look ye also while life lasts.
And the last lines of Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality':
...Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Well, I'm more green than most, and have no problems with re-wilding where possible; but... a lot of 'environmentalists' have a fixed ideal of what is the 'right' sort of natural environment. I've had some of them ranting at me about my being p!ssed off with badgers ruining pasture etc., and they always give the nauseatingly predictable response 'But the badgers were there first...'
Yet they don't want to hear that the badgers were everywhere first; where the schools are now, where the roads are now, where the hospitals are now, where the offices and factories are now and where they live now - and... my fields have been there for a damned sight longer than most, probably all of those! They never want to hear that, and they never respond to it either.
- Location
- Essex
That's where birds nest though and trees grow out of it where they don't get browsed off.