Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity.

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 117

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Our permanent pastures are beautifully diverse with plant mixtures that change and evolve over the years. Patrick has been using diverse seed mixes since he started at Bwlchwernen in 1973. It’s not just about hedges and field margins though, our in-field biodiversity is as valuable as the woodlands, watercourses and hedges.

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Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape. Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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Farming Farming Food Cattle 52