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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hatton" data-source="post: 8159031" data-attributes="member: 111578"><p>Right you lot, update on the next chapter, which as someone mentioned was about Iian Tollhurst, Fruit and vegetable grower. </p><p>Now, I know nothing about him other than whats been written by the author, his 7 ha of organic production on part of the Hardwick Estate near Reading. I'm sure he's an lovely chap and a very capable farmer, but how he produces food isn't going to feed the country when George gets rid of all the livestock farmers, based primarily on labour. Its a massively labour intensive method of farming, we've only seen this week acres of lettuces rotting in the field due to labour shortages, unsurprisingly there didn't seem to be any solution to remedy this issue. </p><p></p><p>I admire how they are producing food with very limited inputs, no pesticides and have very much integrated environmental strips between crops with different species of wild flowers, which in turn encourage lots of biodiversity, increased insect and wildlife. </p><p>What was really interesting was the use of the term 'Green Manure' almost as if there is a new magic product thats going fix all our nutrient needs, or to the rest of us, cover crops! </p><p></p><p>They've no doubt got a very sustainable life business supplying fruit and veg locally, I find it very odd choice of farm to feature in his book when there are many examples of farmers making a real go at regenerative farming on a commercial scale.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Hatton, post: 8159031, member: 111578"] Right you lot, update on the next chapter, which as someone mentioned was about Iian Tollhurst, Fruit and vegetable grower. Now, I know nothing about him other than whats been written by the author, his 7 ha of organic production on part of the Hardwick Estate near Reading. I'm sure he's an lovely chap and a very capable farmer, but how he produces food isn't going to feed the country when George gets rid of all the livestock farmers, based primarily on labour. Its a massively labour intensive method of farming, we've only seen this week acres of lettuces rotting in the field due to labour shortages, unsurprisingly there didn't seem to be any solution to remedy this issue. I admire how they are producing food with very limited inputs, no pesticides and have very much integrated environmental strips between crops with different species of wild flowers, which in turn encourage lots of biodiversity, increased insect and wildlife. What was really interesting was the use of the term 'Green Manure' almost as if there is a new magic product thats going fix all our nutrient needs, or to the rest of us, cover crops! They've no doubt got a very sustainable life business supplying fruit and veg locally, I find it very odd choice of farm to feature in his book when there are many examples of farmers making a real go at regenerative farming on a commercial scale. [/QUOTE]
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