This will be a weekly thing. I will say daft things, I will say things that others will disagree with, I will occasionally say useful things.

As you might expect - we will be talking about ALL aspects of wild food. Ecology, conservation, ethics, legal stuff.

Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say theguardian.com/environment/ar…

A very serious attack on traditional food and farming is underway, a major threat to the artisanal, non-GMO, organic, and traditional food sectors.
Here below is what you need to know and do, urgently, to defend your right to eat time-honoured ingredients in their natural forms

Grasp the nettle...last night, for supper, I made nettle quiche. (ok, cheated on the pastry) And was as good as it looks. #foraging ] #food

Hi Defra UK is the 'Up to £3 million towards supporting small and mobile abattoirs' new money or a reference to the existing Small Abattoir Fund? #FarmToFork #farmtoforksummit

No words! Independent Bookshop of the Year 2024!!!! Thank you EVERYBODY for all your support xx

Opening on Saturday 18th May at 10am
Rossiter Books
Church Street Hereford

Come along to celebrate with us we'd love to see you there!
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#shoplocal
#indiebookshop

It was another world: my father and my Aunt Daphne sorting hops on the farm, Worcs/Herefordshire border, 1950s #farming #history

You know how sheep, according to some, 'sheepwreck' the countryside? Well, this is what conservation grazing by sheep looks like...those bloody sheep eh? Producing floral diversity #conservation #farming #sheep

A dreadful piece of history, and prefiguring of much that was to awfully follow, that should be more widely known from John Lewis-Stempel

jlewisstempel.substack.com/p/the-first-fi…

Although geomagnetic activity is not expected to be as strong tonight, there’s still a good chance of aurora sightings, especially across the northern half of the UK

There could be some visibility further south, especially with long-exposure cameras

My substack article on the genocide of the Herero and Nama - one of history's most overlooked tragedies, crimes, and a prefiguring of the Holocaust

The pyramid orchids are out! (Please excuse the photobombing Guadeloupian dog.) #wildflowers

Totally right

THE FIRST FINAL SOLUTION: IMPERIAL GERMANY’S MASSACRE OF THE HERERO AND NAMA open.substack.com/pub/jlewisstem…

THE FIRST FINAL SOLUTION: IMPERIAL GERMANY’S MASSACRE OF THE HERERO AND NAMA open.substack.com/pub/jlewisstem…

#EnglandANaturalHistory

#EnglandANaturalHistory

It's scarecrow season. I don't want to boast, but this, THIS is what you call a scarecrow #farming

Waste not, want not...trimmed vines yesterday, and put some of the leaves to good use in the evening: feta baked in vines leaves (with lemon balm, pepper, cayenne paper and garlic, salt, olive oil.) #food #vines