Author Archives: Ben Eagle

ThinkingCountry is now on Facebook

ThinkingCountry now has its own Facebook page which will be regularly updated with interesting articles and news relating to farming, conservation, rewilding and other countryside and environment topics. ThinkingCountry articles will of course also be posted there and it will be a chance for you, dear readers, to hopefully interact more easily with the debatesContinueContinue reading “ThinkingCountry is now on Facebook”

A busy week in Yorkshire and time to leave Cirencester

I have been away from the blogosphere for a little while now for which I apologise. However, it has been a fairly hectic couple of weeks. Following on from my rewilding adventure at the Hay Festival I spent a week traveling around Yorkshire farms and food businesses as part of my postgraduate course at theContinueContinue reading “A busy week in Yorkshire and time to leave Cirencester”

Searching for Common Ground in Rewilding at the Hay Festival

Yesterday I returned to the Cotswolds after a sojourn to the Black Mountains and the Hay Festival (and an unfortunate brief stop on the A417 as a result of car problems). The occasion was to attend rural commentator Rob Yorke’s discussion panel event at Hay which was themed around ‘rewilding’ (quite a popular subject forContinueContinue reading “Searching for Common Ground in Rewilding at the Hay Festival”

Moving towards a Rewilding Policy

At the Rewilding Dorset event a few weeks ago I was able to speak to Professor Paul Jepson from Oxford University who gave a presentation on the day about the need to link rewilding to the policy agenda, if it is to gain any real traction in the future. Earlier this week Paul released aContinueContinue reading “Moving towards a Rewilding Policy”

New ‘Upcoming Events’ Page

I have now added an ‘upcoming events’ page to thinkingcountry following a request to do so. Hopefully some of you will find this a useful tool for finding events, conferences, seminars and workshops of interest. They are a mix of food/farming, conservation and environment themed events. I will keep the list updated as often as IContinueContinue reading “New ‘Upcoming Events’ Page”