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Regenerating Humility

RR2CS

Based on my experience working with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions over the last six years, agriculture has enough humility and modesty when it comes to belief in one’s self. The differences between South Glanton and Bla-Kar weren’t as big as the differences between the three farms I wrote about in Regenerating Rural Opportunities.

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Measuring and Valuing: Farmers, workers and community

Sustainable Food Trust

While these networks remain strong in many ways, there are also vulnerabilities due to the erosion of local services and infrastructure within rural communities. He sees it as a way of revitalising rural communities and giving space for new enterprises to develop. Straus feels that “ collaborating with the next generation is essential.”

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They avoid using pesticides and heavy equipment that could compact the soil, plant flowers in their gardens to attract beneficial insects, and maintain meadows with native plants.

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