How edible trees can help with farm animal health
19 August 2019
Livestock farmers know how important trees and hedges are for providing shelter and shade for their farm animals but the importance of hedgerow forage is a lesser known art.
Archive of: Fran Southgate
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How the knowledge of the ancients can help improve livestock health
12 August 2019
The knowledge of how to keep livestock healthy using locally available native plants has been around for millennia. It is both intuitive to the animals themselves, and is held by those who care for them.
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The language of the land
31 July 2019
In a world which is inundated by emoji’s, texts, emails, podcasts, tweets, blogs, chats, posts, etc, it can be hard to hear the language of the natural world around us. Fran Southgate writes about the power of words in nature conservation.
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Ten ways to become Carbon Literate
22 July 2019
Carbon literacy is an awareness of climate change, the carbon costs and impacts of our everyday life activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions - are you Carbon Literate?
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Care versus Control
10 July 2019
Can a movement with more focus on care rather than control of nature help reconnect humans to the world around us?
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Natural Climate Solutions
24 June 2019
Can we really avert Climate Crisis ?
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A vision for climate and flood resilience
10 May 2019
The Environment Agency (EA) launched their draft National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England. It’s a fairly sobering, if upbeat account of how in the face of climate change, it is no longer realistic to manage increasingly intense flooding and sea level rise with limitlessly high flood walls and barriers.
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Wilding will help tackle climate change
23 April 2019
Rewilding and the restoration of our natural systems can draw millions of tonnes of CO2 out of the air. We can help to stop climate breakdown, but we need to be innovative, and we need to act fast.
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Where did barn owls live before we built barns?
18 April 2019
In our human-centric way, we create human solutions to wildlife problems – problems which are generally caused by humans in the first place. Fran Southgate argues that we need a bit of a conservation brain retrofit.
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A Wilder Future for water voles?
09 April 2019
In a healthy natural environment, water voles would be prolific and widespread. Unfortunately, Ratty is no different from most of the rest of our wildlife. Nationally, and locally, water voles have experienced severe and rapid declines - So what can we all do about it?