I am a stay-at-home father with 3 young children. Currently we live in Asia where my wife has been posted for a couple of years. Pollution levels here are rarely below the WHO safe levels and life here would not be described as environmentally sustainable by many people and yet economically things seem to be in great shape. Home is in Scotland where pollution levels are rarely above WHO safe levels but where farmers are struggling financially.
I would like to study farmers and farming methods that are financially, environmentally and socially sustainable in both the short and the long term. There have been media stories recently about the fact that Britain may have only 100 harvests left in the soil. (http://www.fwi.co.uk/news/only-100-harvests-left-in-uk-farm-soils-scientists-warn.htm) Might this be true and if it is what should we do about it?
Having got a degree, I hope to put any new ideas into practice at home where we have a large mixed farm with cattle, cereals, vegetables and forestry With any luck the business can succeed on all 3 fronts with economic success, soil building and worthwhile local employment. This is the beginning of my journey back to the farm.
I would like to study farmers and farming methods that are financially, environmentally and socially sustainable in both the short and the long term. There have been media stories recently about the fact that Britain may have only 100 harvests left in the soil. (http://www.fwi.co.uk/news/only-100-harvests-left-in-uk-farm-soils-scientists-warn.htm) Might this be true and if it is what should we do about it?
Having got a degree, I hope to put any new ideas into practice at home where we have a large mixed farm with cattle, cereals, vegetables and forestry With any luck the business can succeed on all 3 fronts with economic success, soil building and worthwhile local employment. This is the beginning of my journey back to the farm.
