Following the success of our last open day, STC will be holding our next open on Sunday 17 October. There will be Farm and Glasshouse tours, Homemade refreshments and fun activities for the children plus plenty more things to see and do.
poster (80)Friends of Skipwith Common, fresh local burgers to eat and also the NFU are doing pumpkin soup tasting.
The Vikings are coming with cooking and hunting equipment
Although microalgae are not yet produced at large scale for bulk applications such as fuel production, recent advances—particularly in the methods of systems biology, genetic engineering, and biorefining—present opportunities to develop this process in a sustainable and economical way within the next 10 to 15 years, according to two researchers from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands.
The Agricultural Advisory Services Analysis Report assesses the different ways that farmers are given advice and how effective these methods are at achieving behaviour change. It recommends using existing advisory channels, following a tiered approach. This approach starts by capitalising on public services, such as the English Catchment Sensitive Farming Deliver Initiative, then mobilising private and third sector services, for example by working with industry bodies and membership organisations; and finally by supporting independent advisers to deliver this advice.
http://ww2.defra.gov.uk/2010/08/13/agricultural-advisory-services/