When Nature and Farming Collide
By Jackie Money
@olliesmum (828)
Norwich, England
July 15, 2019 9:55am CST
Most certainly here in the UK we hear so much about how farming is bad for nature and bad for the environment and I generally agree but here in Spixworth we're lucky enough to have a farmer who cares.
This photo shows a natural meadow owned by that farmer which is left as nature intended and is grazed by cattle in the summer. Beyond the oak trees you can see across the middle of the photo he has a field sown wheat which is now almost ready to harvest but,around the edge of the wheat field where it joins the meadow, he has left a strip which contains native British wild flowers.
It's fantastic looking across there each morning and this is one of the main reasons we moved here ... apart from the peace, quiet and low crime rate!
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@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
16 Jul 19
My family are connected to farming. Dad was a crop inspector and one of my uncles was a farmer. I love seeing the tractor out in the field late autumn getting the field ready for planting. And then to watch the crops grow is such a fantastic thing. I'm now looking forward to the crops being harvested as I get such a wonderful smell wafting into the kitchen.
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@JudyEv (325248)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul 19
@olliesmum I grew up on a farm. I always have a small regret that I wasn't able to remain on one.
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@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
17 Jul 19
@JudyEv Now my dream was to have an animal sanctuary but to put down some of the land to plants. I'd then sell garden plants as well as dried flowers and maybe produce some of my own herbal teas and oils.
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@wolfgirl569 (94684)
• Marion, Ohio
15 Jul 19
It looks nice. I just dont like all of the chemical use from farmers here.
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@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
16 Jul 19
It's the same here. After the war farmers started ripping out hedges and using pesticides to try to produce enough food for the UK as we'd been on strict rations for six years but thankfully some of the farmers here are now seeing that they need wildlife and are leaving bands around the edges of fields for wild flowers. Basically we wrecked the eco system!
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@Fleura (29094)
• United Kingdom
15 Jul 19
Farming per se isn't that bad - certainly there are many animals and plants that have developed alongside agriculture - it's the modern factory monocultures that are particularly bad. Most conservation organisations cite the decline in traditional farming practices as the real 'baddie'.
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