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YES - THE CONVENTION IS ON - NO FLOODING IN KENDAL!

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contrarywise

Posted by gillies macbain on November 18, 2009 at 6:07pm — 1 Comment

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An update from Carnegie's Rural Team

Posted by Kate on November 17, 2009 at 12:20pm — 1 Comment

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Monbiot: If Nothing Else, Save Farming

Posted by Nick Wilding on November 17, 2009 at 11:50am — 6 Comments

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Rural Network events kick off in Aberdeenshire

Posted by Norette Ferns on November 11, 2009 at 4:14pm

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Poem for November: The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney

As you plaited the harvest bow
You implicated the mellowed silence in you
In wheat that does not rust
But brightens as it tightens twist by twist
Into a knowable corona,
A throwaway love-knot of straw.

Hands that aged round ashplants and cane sticks
And lapped the spurs on a lifetime of game cocks
Harked to their gift and worked will fine intent
Until your fingers moved somnambulant:
I tell and finger it like braille,
Gleaning the unsaid off the palpable,

And if i spy into its golden loops
I see us walk between the railway slopes
Into an evening of long grass and midges,
Blue smoke straight up, old beds and ploughs in hedges,
An auction notice on an outhouse wall--
You with a harvest bow in your lapel,

Me with the fishing rod, already homesick
For the big lift of these evenings, as your stick
Whacking the tips off weeds and bushes
Beats out of time, and beats, but flushes
Nothing: that original townland
Still tongue-tied in the straw tied by your hand.

The end of art is peace
Could be the motto of this frail device
That i have pinned up on our deal dresser--
Like a drawn snare
Slipped lately by the spirit of the corn
Yet burnished by its passage, and still warm.

 
 

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I was slightly puzzled about why Monbiot appears to insist on farming systems which don't need much labour. Although a return to labour-intensive farming is unlikely to be a runner, the UK shift in the latter part of the last century to a highly m...
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and for more on nitrogen read Fred Pearce e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2207
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