Rosewood Farm - grazing on the wet bits since 1996.
All beef, no cake.
Not afraid of nature.
Jul 24, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Unfortunately this piece features a picture of #Dartmoor sheep that is rather misleading so as to constitute a further #AttackOnNature - the sheep are pictured 1/17
with the description ‘Dartmoor, allegedly a national park, is an ecological disaster zone, among the most mistreated ecosystems in Europe.’ is provided by stock photo site Alamy where the description reads 'Sheep feeding on the open Dartmoor Moorland in Devon', so I can see 2/17
Sep 18, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Today I've been in the Lake District with @herdyshepherd1, he's told me little that is new to me but I'm happy to hear it because, as a far better writer than I will ever be, I know that many people will hear #EnglishPastoral and will join us in a new direction, getting farmers,
consumers and ecologists talking and finding innovative solutions to our world's increasingly apparent problems.
In reality I've been alone, pondering how my connection to farming the Ings is no less strong than James' connection to his upland farm, and how I'd give up .
Aug 4, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I've seen a lot of anti-grazing "conservation" references today talking about how our countryside 'needs' less grazing - I, as ever, disagree with this narrative - we need better grazing, which in turn will lead to more production alongside more wildlife, so I took a step outside
on to our "heavily grazed" farm to remind myself that heavy grazing isn't all about nibbling everything off to the nubbins. Butterflies, wildflowers, birds - we're producing something that you can't eat, which some see as wasteful but it seems to be what everyone wants more of &
Jul 24, 2019 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
A little note about the #LessAndBetter meat message - I'm quite well known for calling this out as unhelpful and actually harmful to developing more sustainable farming systems, but it's not *just* because I sell meat, although that has given me an insight into the effect of such
a destructive message. The problem stems mainly from the vague nature of the message - less than what? better than what? what is better? what is 'meat'?- it's not at all clear, if you take greenhouse gas emissions, for example, cows emit methane so they must be bad, right, so
