Suffolk Serf
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- Bury/Thetford
Guardians of the Grassland - LIVE NOW
- Thread starter Clive
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- East Sussex
Very good short film. I'm not too sure how much of it is relevant to our 'improved' grasslands but mucho respect to them and their beautiful landscape.
I agree that we could do something similar to make us more relevant to today's environmentally aware public, we could really push our case and 'sell' the good we do/ could do better with support.
I agree that we could do something similar to make us more relevant to today's environmentally aware public, we could really push our case and 'sell' the good we do/ could do better with support.
knowing diddly squat about film making, I would guess that making it is the easy part ? Getting it seen in the schools and boardrooms across the UK will be the fun bit ?
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- Welshpool Powys
@Cab-over Pete Could make a v good presenter.
but thats ok because it makes some people lots of money .
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- Welshpool Powys
At the detriment of the countryside
Forever (Can’t make anymore farmland)
Suffolk Serf
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- Bury/Thetford
Perfect. He could pay for it as well if he gets full asking price for his Xerion.
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- Welshpool Powys
Come to the welsh uplands too see permanent grasslands and grazing livestock on smaller family run farms that’s been here for millennia.
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Actually well-managed permanent pasture with good legume and herb content can be hugely diverse in plants, fungi, birds and mammals as well as sequestering carbon. It can be a much richer ecosystem than many British woodlands.
Suffolk Serf
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- Bury/Thetford
Another load of vegan codswallop on BBC1 at the moment. (Eat Well for Less). Yes I do blame the BBC.
steeling that for Facebook !
I wonder if this media bias is a Uk thing or do they get similar in Canada ? Maybe that was the motivation to make the film ?
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
I can't find the link just now but earlier this year a paper came out where the researchers had looked at the carbon sequestration achieved in managed woodland planted on permanent pasture and on arable land or replanting forestry after harvesting. They found that there was a net emitting of carbon for the first 10 to 15 years where trees were planted on grassland which was barely compensated by the trees as they matured!
yes under concrete its gone for a fair while .
mind you forever is a long time.
me and the missis was only saying the other day how theres crazy numbers of housebuilding going on around here ,like never before.
Only saying that soon remote ish byroads will be full not only of traffic but of dog walkers etc , sure enough on Monday morning ii was of down over to go out the road gate and a women with a dog comes on off the road , so i said you cant walk in here its private property and sheep are in the next field so she says ,oh well there wasn't a sign on the gate saying keepout or a chain and lock...
flabbergasted the only reply i could muster was do you want every field gate in the countryside with signs on and locked and chained.. ffs
She was like alot of the others around now ,a pure townie with no knowledge or interest in the countryside that we bust a gut to maintain as well as earn enough.
Theyre not country people thats for sure.
lol. I had it on a t-shirt 30 years ago. When my dad saw it was the moment he realised that he had raised a wrong un.
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- Welshpool Powys
I’m afraid that will be the future from now onyes under concrete its gone for a fair while .
mind you forever is a long time.
me and the missis was only sying how theres crazy numbers housebuilding going on around here ,like never before.
only saying that soon remote ish byroads will be full not only of traffic but of dog walkers , sure enogh on Mondy morning ii was of down over to go out the road gate and a women with a dog comes on off the road , so i said you cant walk in here its private property and sheep are in the next field so she says ,oh well there wasnt a sign on the gate saying keepout or a chain and lock...
the only reply i could muster was do you want every field gate in the countryside with signs on nd locked and chained.. ffs
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Pretty much summed up by the words of "Big yellow taxi" by Joni Mitchell:
They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hello All, this is Mickenzie with Ducks Unlimited Canada. I hope you enjoyed the film and look forward to answering your questions. Thanks!
