Thers a new one now ..

[Bury the Trash]

Word/ land use name .....

Paludiculture


Just saw it on Countryphile

Well it's a new word to me anyway....

Paludiculture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Tarw Coch]

Word/ land use name .....

Paludiculture


Just saw it on Countryphile

Well it's a new word to me anyway....

Paludiculture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hmmm, do I really want to click on that link to see what it means ?

 

[Flat 10]

Word/ land use name .....

Paludiculture


Just saw it on Countryphile

Well it's a new word to me anyway....

Paludiculture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It'w what they want us to do in the fens

 

[Adeptandy]

Hmmm, do I really want to click on that link to see what it means ?

I’m hoping someone does, can’t be bothered

 

[Adeptandy]

It'w what they want us to do in the fens

I’ll have to look now

 

[Adeptandy]

It'w what they want us to do in the fens

I’m assuming you weren’t one of the CCC tenants at the last on farm meeting at Whittlesey where John Mac proclaimed the farm’s estate was responsible for 50% of Cambs CC’s CO2 emissions in the latest audit

 

[ladycrofter]

Well I did and there's f**k all. Just a lot of use of the word "potential".
There's also a list of potential crops and up here it includes loganberries (or whatever the f**k they're called) and . . . that's about it.

They are so f****** stupid one of the crops they suggest is growing birch and alder for timber which of course will then dry the peat bog up, what a bunch of w******.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Word/ land use name .....

Paludiculture


Just saw it on Countryphile

Well it's a new word to me anyway....

Paludiculture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Why not try grouse shooting instead?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I will add, that grouse shooting also benefits the birds that really need our help.

 

[PSQ]

I will add, that grouse shooting also benefits the birds that really need our help.

Which is pretty much the ethos of the excellent Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust - The GWCT

We are a leading UK charity conducting conservation science to enhance the British countryside for public benefit

www.gwct.org.uk

I don’t even shoot, but as a life member I really appreciate their in depth research into wildlife conservation.

 

[killie_cowboy]

These bloody hippies truly haven't a clue and this just proves it. Anybody remotely involved knows that modern agriculture on undrained bog or wetlands is a messy torture if not impossible. Forestry much the same, though as mentioned, planting trees dries out the bloody ground anyway. And those boys digging out drains by hand 200 years ago, well, they must just have been doing it for a laugh, eh?

 

[deleted user 837354]

Well I did and there's f**k all. Just a lot of use of the word "potential".
There's also a list of potential crops and up here it includes loganberries (or whatever the f**k they're called) and . . . that's about it.

They are so f****** stupid one of the crops they suggest is growing birch and alder for timber which of course will then dry the peat bog up, what a bunch of w******.

Birch and alder- to hell with that for an idea. If you're going to initiate afforestation in an area, it needs to be done properly and with careful thought because it is irreversible in ecological terms.

 

[yoki]

There's also a list of potential crops and up here it includes loganberries (or whatever the f**k they're called) and . . . that's about it.

Pretty sad that they're not even aware that there's a much improved and much more modern version of the Loganberry, which has been developed in Scotland of all places.

Tayberry - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I'm pretty in to this sort of thing and I don't even waste my time with Loganberries!

 

[Welderloon]

Paludiculture - Thats going straight in the what grinds your gears thread

 

[Lowland1]

I will add, that grouse shooting also benefits the birds that really need our help.

Not the grouse so much though.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Not the grouse so much though.

I suspect if you look at quarry species as a whole -the ones that are bred and released I mean- that their population benefits from shooting because only a fraction of them are ever shot. The remainder disappear off into the fabric of the landscape. I admit this is rather different for Grouse, though but much care is taken to maintain the landscape in such a way that benefits them.

 

[Lowland1]

I suspect if you look at quarry species as a whole -the ones that are bred and released I mean- that their population benefits from shooting because only a fraction of them are ever shot. The remainder disappear off into the fabric of the landscape. I admit this is rather different for Grouse, though but much care is taken to maintain the landscape in such a way that benefits them.

Twas a sarcastic comment.

 

[Spencer]

Word/ land use name .....

Paludiculture


Just saw it on Countryphile

Well it's a new word to me anyway....

Paludiculture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I had agent take 20sq metres out of a field last year to start trials in it..

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I wouldn’t worry about it, it will never happen as they wouldn’t be able to afford to do it. How the fek would they manage the water, they can’t even do it properly now.

 

[ladycrofter]

So I read more. Lots of "could". Most references are tropical. Indonesian peatlands, a great model for the Highlands eh?

However, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that sphagnum moss can be "grown and harvested" for orchid substrate. A booming market that. Apparently we can't get people to pick peas off the vine here so I'm sure they'll be happy to turn up in the middle of a bog in summer with clouds of midges and those incessant circling headflies, to rake sphagnum moss off heather .

I'm just off to my orchid house to give the plants the good news Wee man is smiling already .

(Courtesy of Glasgow Botanic Garden, worth a visit)