https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/ Gardenvisit.com Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:21:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/#comment-1017 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:21:38 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2147#comment-1017 […] the medieval system of land tenure. It is Laxton. I love it and the photograph was taken this week. Wouldn’t you rather your beef came from here than from a factory farm, awash with antibiotics? I was vegetarian between the ages of (about) 6 and 16. My father, who was a doctor, ridiculed me. […]

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/#comment-1016 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:28:54 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2147#comment-1016 DEFRA appears to be looking ever-backward to the world wars of the past century. So they see a strategic capacity for the UK to feed itself as the prime goal of agricultural policy, more important even that the economic prosperity of UK agriculture or the quality of food produced in the UK. And one other thing: they want the UK agriculture to be dependent on the enlightened guidance of civil servants – or so it appears to me!

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/#comment-1015 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:42:46 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2147#comment-1015 I am doing a school project on organic farming and I have found this both educational and entertaining. What the school tells us appears to be ‘misinformed’ or basically a load of bulls**t but looking into independeant reaserch i have found that DEFRA is not a help for the uk’s Oraginc Agriculture but more of a hindrance as you have expalined. Thanks for your help.

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/#comment-1014 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:39:20 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2147#comment-1014 Dickson Despommier from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University is proposing Vertical Farming as the solution to land shortage, increasing incidents of disease and land clearing amongst other environmental harms.[http://gliving.com/organic-farm-skyskrapers-is-this-our-future/].

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/#comment-1013 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:20:33 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2147#comment-1013 Yes! New Zealand is already the best example for the developed countries of how to run an agriculture policy. Like Britain, it would do well to say ‘organic only’, for commercial reasons if nothing else.

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/uk-organic-farming-and-government/#comment-1012 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:47:51 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2147#comment-1012 Perhaps combining organic farming with tourism a la New Zealand might be worth considering. [http://www.wwoof.co.nz/farewell.php]

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