Agricultural education is nigh on non existent within the school system in the UK. The US are one step ahead of us and it features far more prominently within the curriculum. There is, it seems, still more work to be done in making a case for its importance but we could still learn some lessonsContinueContinue reading “Why Ag Education is important”
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BirdFair and Scotland await
Hello dear readers, Firstly, I must apologise that posts to the blog have been rather thin on the ground of late. It has been a particularly busy month and I have not been able to find as much time to write as I would have liked. A weekend with some friends in the Brecon BeaconsContinueContinue reading “BirdFair and Scotland await”
A Busy month and ‘Farming Today’ in a tent in Bristol
May is set to be a very busy month with conferences, exams, final bits and pieces of coursework as I enter the final stages of my agriculture postgrad at the Royal Agricultural University and various other commitments. I apologise in advance therefore if thinkingcountry posts are slightly less frequent over the next few weeks! Nonetheless,ContinueContinue reading “A Busy month and ‘Farming Today’ in a tent in Bristol”
Are conservationists hopelessly opposed to everything?
This is a refreshingly brave post, written by James Common, on the subject of collaboration and understanding of nuance when it comes to achieving conservation aims in the 21st century. The thinking behind it goes to the root of what I am trying to achieve in this blog – to suggest that we need toContinueContinue reading “Are conservationists hopelessly opposed to everything?”
The frustrations of report writing
Some might say that this is the ultimate act of procrastination – writing about report writing when I should be writing a report. This is in some ways true and I have been sitting in the office all morning with a pile of papers on my desk, google scholar (and I must say, wikipedia) onContinueContinue reading “The frustrations of report writing”
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