Fenland Futures

I promised you I would report after my evening out in Ely. Lovely venue (the Maltings in Ely) – filled with an impressive audience of farmers and partner organisations. The starting point was our...
Ending our peat addiction

Defra’s consultation on ending peat use in horticulture is very welcome, even if we’d like to see an end to peat use in gardens and horticulture much sooner than proposed. It’s interesting how climate...
No more peat please - a nudge is a fudge

As you will know by now (we hope!), the RSPB has been campaigning hard these past few months to get Government to phase out the use of peat in horticulture. Why? Because extracting peat destroys vital...
Climate mitigation in agriculture: summary findings

Climate change affects everything. While agriculture, if it continues with ‘business as usual’, is likely to be one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases by 2050, it is also likely to be the system...
RSPB welcomes Drax move to abandon forest-burner plant

Drax have today announced that they are abandoning plans for a huge biomass power plant in Yorkshire that alone would have consumed about 1.9 million tonnes of wood each year. See here for the story....