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The Bumpy Road to Success "Things can and do change, and in thirty years we have seen huge shifts." Pammy Riggs A personal story of turning childhood farming dreams into reality, and taking the bumpy road into biodiversity gain. Childhood dreams My pride and joy as a child was my toy farm, what an …
Red Mite Problem Resolved "Red mite do not live on the bird but lurk in the house and only go onto the bird when the warmth of the roosting hens lure them down." Pammy Riggs On their farm, Pammy and her husband Ritchie raise chickens commercially. Prioritising health and welfare by keeping less than 150 birds per …
Farming to Scale Who remembers the book Small is Beautiful by Schaumacher? I was told that title was not Schaumacher’s choice but his editor’s. Certainly the title worked as a sales ploy because Small is Beautiful is an iconic book known the world over. The Appropriate Size is Right as title, which does not roll …
The original “cheep” is a smile-evoking sound if you have ever had the pleasure of hatching eggs in an incubator. What is beautiful, but also surprising for the uninitiated, is that the cheeping starts before the chick has hatched. Chicks hatched in the natural way, under a hen, emerge in spring - the original …
Who remembers Swampy, and the Eco Warriors from the 80’s? They did not manage to succeed in their mission to stop a big road going through the woods they were inhabiting, but they made a big impression on our little family who had just bought a small plot of wet and ravaged land in Devon. …
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