| Archive for NEEPS North East Eco-friendly People's Site |
| Martin |
Utterly superb programme (A Farm for the Future)worth digging out on iplayer, or watching out for a repeat -"8pm BBC2, Fri 20th Feb - Natural World" "A Farm for the Future Wildlife film-maker Rebecca Hosking returns to her family's farm in Devon, intending to take over the work when her father retires. Alarmed by high fuel prices, she learns how dependent the UK's food production is on cheap fossil fuels and sets out to explore ways to use natural power and create a low energy farm for the future" I cannot recommend this programme more highly - in my humble opinion, the best bit of TV of the century! 
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| Smooth Hound |
would i be able to get this on the computor anywhere, or the tele, ive got 123 and 4 | ||
| wildgarlic |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...d_20082009_A_Farm_for_the_Future/ | ||
| Smooth Hound |
great thanks | ||
| Martin |
and an article by the film maker, in of all places, the Daily Fail!
http://tinyurl.com/bzf38l
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| Smooth Hound |
excellent, i enjoyed that, perhaps enjoy isnt the word  i appreciated that, hould i say, now that i would put on the school curriculum,
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| Martin |
and required viewing for the government - "pay attention, you will be asked searching questions afterwards" job!
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| Smooth Hound |
dont think id bother wuth the govt myself, theyve gone on a path somewhere else, | ||
| wildgarlic |
Thanks so much for posting about this Martin - it should be compulsory viewing for everyone. Fabulous photography and packed full of information that makes you want to know more. | ||
| Pauline |
Post carbonEnjoyed watching this.If you did too, the post carbon institute have a great website- I have it on my favourites list- http://www.postcarbon.org/ They do a series of talks which are as inspiring. Richard Heinburg leads. Also, a great book- the value of life by Stephen R Kellert goes into the biodiversity values in some detail- demonstrating that the values of the smallest species do the hardest work- and we underestimate the work they do- like parasites, species which recycle materials, like bacteria, worms, etc. I think the more folk who support the conservation of biodiversity for biocentric reasons as well as anthropocentric, the better! Thanks for suggestion! |
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| Ina |
Re: Post carbon
Wasn't it Darwin who reckoned the earth worm was the most important animal on earth? |
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| Maria |
Fantastic programme. Thanks so much for posting this. Don't do telly, so end up missing the teeny bit that's worth tuning in to....and this could well be the best offering all year.
How marvellous was Pearl? 
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| Martin |
It'll be on iplayer for another couple of days, also
The programme is now available for download: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2313068 The producers have confirmed that making copies for personal viewing is OK as long as not charged for
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| Smooth Hound |
its was a brilliant progrmme, its just a shame that the only people who watched it were people who already know  its a shame you cant tie people down and force them to watch it, 
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| lachlanandmarcus |
I liked the emphasis on nuts as an alternative to arable grains. When I went to Corsica, the pork came from the pigs fed on chestnuts in the forest and the flour was also made from the nuts. Heavenly! | ||
| JamesB |
yeah and think of all that CO2 the trees lock up.
Was interested to learn that they feed willow to the animals, I was wondering what I was going to do with all that willow I planted! Now I know. One problem that we do have in this part of the world is that nut trees don't seem to grow so well. Do anyone know that are the best nut growing trees for Scotland, Im struggling to think! James |
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| IainC |
Hazelnut trees always seem to do quite well down at my Grandas (west coast near Oban). The track along to his house had heaps of them growing wild at the side of the road, although I was devastated last time I went... previous years I've never been down at the exact right time to get the nuts when they are ready to eat, always too early or too late (ie someones nicked them all before I got there).
Last time I was there at the exact right time, only to find out the local farmer had cut them all back (quite drastically) so there was little or no nuts to be had again
Keep meaning to take some cuttings of a few of them when we're there to plant up here. |
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| Maria |
James wrote
Asked Jonny Barton (permaculture designer) who recently joined neeps about this....his answer with very helpful links can be found here http://neeps.myfreeforum.org/about6501.html |