As Europe’s only Jewish farm faces closure, its founder explains why reviving Judaism’s ancient precepts of sustainable agriculture and conservati...Read More
As the Chelsea Flower Show gets under way, we pick pollinator-friendly meadows and gardens for making a beeline to, from North Uist to the Tower of Lo...Read More
Farmers Weekly Increasing spells of dry weather have prompted beef and sheep farmer Marc Jones to roll out a programme of reseeding with herbal leys a...Read More
Farmers Weekly The first-ever UK plantations of a “carbon-sucking” tree will be established on a Suffolk estate this year. Paulownia can capture 1...Read More
There’s new advice for gardeners on how to tackle this little beetle which doesn’t involve pesticides The first sign of black vine weevils, Otiorh...Read More
Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly‘s Dairy Farmer of the Year 2021, Mark Larwood, is a seasoned grower of lucerne, a crop that other producers might cons...Read More
Plants now bloom in mid-April on average, with scientists warning of mismatches with insects and birds Plants are flowering a month earlier in the UK ...Read More
7 January 1922: When one has got over into the third foolscap sheet, lean back in one’s chair, plot out the beds and imagine the year’s garden Kew...Read More
All of planting is dictated by the time until the first frost. Cold weather kills growth and causes plants go dormant; seedlings planted too close to ...Read More
Farmers Weekly Farmers considering the move to a regenerative farming system must have a plan and introduce gradual changes, or there’s a danger tha...Read More
Farmers Weekly More than 3,000ha of new woodland is set to be planted along England’s riverbanks as part of a government project to help manage floo...Read More
As sea levels rise, growers are employing innovative methods to adapt to saline soils Like millions of people across Bangladesh, Anita Bala, 45, relie...Read More
Sandy, Bedfordshire: The lawn hasn’t been mowed since the first greenish-brown babies appeared in early June, and the inhabitants are chirruping the...Read More
Enjoy hoverflies as they pollinate your plants and devour pests. Pea-family shrubs and hairy plants are good for droughty parts of the garden, and Med...Read More
The government’s 10-year food and drinks strategy, Food Vision 2030, has been described as ‘another detrimental blueprint for agriculture‘ by th...Read More
A pioneering decade-long strategy for Ireland’s food and drinks sector has received government approval. The strategy titled ‘Food Vision 2030 –...Read More
The UK’s largest woodland conservation charity Woodland Trust has pledged to get rid of plastic tree guards from its sites by the end of the year. T...Read More
From Peckham to Plymouth, wildflowers are thriving in urban areas as councils let the grass grow to create ‘managed messiness’ for wildlife to thr...Read More
With new rapid cycle breeding techniques, apple scientists are making use of wild genetic diversity faster than ever. Any apple grower would be horrif...Read More
As the country prepares for an outdoor summer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a new campaign to encourage people to reduce the...Read More