Reading Time: 8 minutes Carbon footprint calculators have been on my radar for a long time now, and lately ‘Net Zero’ has crept into the frame. Having followed green-living news out of interest, it’s inevitable; I could hardly have missed either of these terms. I’ve tried plugging my life details into a few carbon footprint calculators, out of curiosity, […]
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Regenerative Goods, Rewilding, and Land Sharing
Reading Time: 8 minutes ‘Regenerative’ is word that is cropping up more lately. Yes, despite our lives becoming more tech-filled by the day, it seems there’s a band of people who hanker after the ‘stuff’ in their lives to be made of more natural materials; less corporate, branded and remote. Is this you too? I’ve thought much about regenerative […]
Alternative Economy, Meaningful Work and Autonomy
Reading Time: 12 minutes It seems that lockdowns (for better or worse) have helped the alternative economy draw in new converts. But, it may only be because I seek out an alternative economy that I notice it. We were well into the ‘pandemic’ before I realised how much life had changed. Life changes: as we all know, and it […]
Traditional Nose to Tail: Thrifty Tips and Ancestral Wisdom
Reading Time: 2 minutes Grass-fed or pastured meat and food from farm shops is expensive. Is that right? It may be slightly more expensive (for good reason) but if you want thrifty, nourishing food, take advice from cookbooks of your grandmother’s and great grandmother’s era. You may not have your own, so I mean metaphorically speaking, as traditional nose […]
On Drover’s Roads, Prehistoric Settlement and Ancient Landscapes
Reading Time: 2 minutes We recently excavated a rare kind of Iron Age settlement in Warwickshire. From out the ground came evidence that pointed us to our age-old habit of walking with animals. Our site sat in an ancient landscape, most likely riddled with drover’s roads and ancient byways, connecting places of a similar type. Herders traded livestock north […]
How Diverse Grains and Pulses Save Soils, Save Wildlife and Help Us With Food Security
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wheat, rye, barley, oats, peas and beans. These grains and pulses have been with us for thousand of years. Yet, we’ve become very wheat-centric in recent years and might not appreciate why diverse grains and pulses have always been a strategy for food security in the past. So they can be now. Local crops for […]