Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe life a forest has seen is written into its wood. Rising and falling temperature, water availability, the affect of people living at its edge; tales of bark chewing deer and clouds of insects too. All leave their mark in tree rings. The signature of wildwood, climate change, insects and people; of oakwood and birchwood. […]
Landscape and Nature
Do We Need to Revive Traditional Knowledge to Live Well for the Future?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe best of the past for the future. That’s what I want to focus on this year.
When I started this blog, I never thought of it as relating to my working life. But, as time goes on I’ve found it sneaking in. I’m a cross between an archaeologist and an ecologist, and so I’ve found the phrases ‘ancient knowledge, passed down through generations’ slipping in.
Lost Words and Nature-based Solutions
Reading Time: 5 minutesRegain lost words and seek out nature-based solutions. Simple swaps, which we’ve heard so much about during Zero Waste Week, are a great way to make a difference. But, alongside a focus on stuff (avoiding buying stuff; wasting less stuff), I want to bring in another dimension. For this week, think also zero waste of […]
Save Mother Owl – Support Nature-Friendly Farming
Reading Time: 4 minutesMother Owl is sick and dying. She perches in a tree, looking down on fields of broccoli, cabbages, carrots, oilseed rape and cereals. The landscape that is the cause of her demise. She may not be able to reach her chicks in a nest nearby. She can hear them, but, she has fatigued muscles and […]
Artisan Food: Is It Better For Us and the Planet?
Reading Time: 3 minutesJust to the south of where I live is a landscape that has terroir: multiple distinct landscapes producing vegetables, cider and beer. It’s a great place to source artisan food. This is a continuation of a journey around the English west midlands where I live. I started in the hills in the north, moved round […]
