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Farmers don’t have to contribute to the environmental crisis – we can solve it | Jyoti Fernandes
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<blockquote data-quote="The Guardian RSS" data-source="post: 7800613" data-attributes="member: 78390"><p><strong>Farmers don’t have to contribute to the environmental crisis – we can solve it | Jyoti Fernandes</strong></p><p></p><p>Written by Jyoti Fernandes from the Guardian</p><p></p><p>As a farmer I produce meat and cheese from animals that graze in my orchard on diverse, carbon-sequestering grasslands</p><p></p><p>Last week, I went to the funeral of an old farmer named Brian. Until he died, Brian managed his farm, with its traditional orchards, hedgerows, and meadows, as an ecosystem. I could see from the age of the farmers who came to pay their respects that this way of farming was dying out and being replaced by a farming system that is one of the greatest contributors to the climate and nature crisis we face. However, there is hope. My husband and I, like the many new farmers emerging, learned our approach from these old farmers, who have been through drastic changes in the farming industry, yet have managed to keep alive their knowhow.</p><p></p><p>Our family-run farm in Dorset produces meat, cheese, vegetables and apple juice, using many of these same agroecological farming methods. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/oct/09/agroecological-farming-feed-world-africa" target="_blank">Agroecological farming</a> means we nurture the soil, insects, grassland, plants, animals and trees on our land to provide healthy affordable food for our local community. For us, farming isn’t just a business, and it isn’t just about feeding human beings – it’s about feeding all living things on the planet.</p><p></p><p>Jyoti Fernandes is a farmer based in Dorset</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/21/farmers-dont-have-to-contribute-to-the-environmental-crisis-we-can-solve-it" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Since you’re here …</strong></p><p></p><p>… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.</p><p></p><p>If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/theguardiansquare.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Guardian RSS, post: 7800613, member: 78390"] [b]Farmers don’t have to contribute to the environmental crisis – we can solve it | Jyoti Fernandes[/b] Written by Jyoti Fernandes from the Guardian As a farmer I produce meat and cheese from animals that graze in my[B] [/B]orchard on diverse, carbon-sequestering grasslands Last week, I went to the funeral of an old farmer named Brian. Until he died, Brian managed his farm, with its traditional orchards, hedgerows, and meadows, as an ecosystem. I could see from the age of the farmers who came to pay their respects that this way of farming was dying out and being replaced by a farming system that is one of the greatest contributors to the climate and nature crisis we face. However, there is hope. My husband and I, like the many new farmers emerging, learned our approach from these old farmers, who have been through drastic changes in the farming industry, yet have managed to keep alive their knowhow. Our family-run farm in Dorset produces meat, cheese, vegetables and apple juice, using many of these same agroecological farming methods. [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/oct/09/agroecological-farming-feed-world-africa']Agroecological farming[/URL] means we nurture the soil, insects, grassland, plants, animals and trees on our land to provide healthy affordable food for our local community. For us, farming isn’t just a business, and it isn’t just about feeding human beings – it’s about feeding all living things on the planet. Jyoti Fernandes is a farmer based in Dorset [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/21/farmers-dont-have-to-contribute-to-the-environmental-crisis-we-can-solve-it']Continue reading...[/URL] [b]Since you’re here …[/b] … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you. [img]https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/theguardiansquare.png[/img] [url="https://support.theguardian.com/uk"][img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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