Posts by mcsophie

Winter Wildlife Wonders By Tim Martin The countryside in winter can seem a little lifeless.  Walks are often head down, powering along against the elements, senses blunted by hats and hoods, in contrast to unhurried summer ambles, when there are flowers, butterflies and birdsong to distract eyes and ears.  In winter, much of our wildlife…

The Biggest Disaster: The Decline in Soil Health Soil is one of the most fundamental resources we have – without healthy soil we cannot grow enough food to eat. Soil is much more than just food production: it protects us against floods and droughts whilst capturing vast amounts of carbon. Modern intensive farming is degrading…

Deer, Oh Deer… By Tim Martin Why we need to eat more wild-shot venison to save woodland wildlife.  There’s hardly a day goes by without newspaper story about the pros and cons of meat: why we shouldn’t eat it, or why we should (as long as it’s less of the right sort of meat -…

We often talk about the wonderful wildflower meadows that Farm Wilder’s farmers protect, but there’s another endangered farmland habitat that is less well known, and once lost takes even longer to restore: orchards. Over the last 100 years there has been a drastic decline in orchards throughout England and Wales, with the National Trust estimating…