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Earthworm crowned UK invertebrate of the year 🪱

Guess where worms seem to like living most? Where the cattle graze!

🌱💩🐂 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Social media is now full of pet dogs worrying pregnant sheep or newborn lambs

Please keep your dog on a lead. It’s simple. ON A LEAD

Dogs are thinly domesticated wolves, however much you think they are a member of the family. The dog will be shot and that’s a stupid waste.

Finally getting on with spring drilling

Seasonal, sustainable, floral foam free and locally grown #farewellflowers in Sheepdrove’s natural burial wood grown and arranged by our resident #flowerfarm Skylark Flower Co

✨2024 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We’ve been so looking forward to sharing this news! From the return of the Watermill Ensemble to summer at the circus, have we got a season for you. Sign up to be a member for priority booking from 9 Feb, and support our mission as we move forwards as

Tickets are now on sale for the 45th Newbury Spring Festival! Book yours via Corn Exchange Newbury and join us for two weeks of world-class music this May.
Book your tickets 👇
newburyspringfestival.org.uk/events/photo/ #newbury #berkshire Newbury Today Visit Newbury

🐑 NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS 🥩

Our research team summarise a new research paper titled ‘The nutritional value of meat should be considered when comparing the carbon footprint of lambs produced on different finishing diets’.

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🗣️ “As with all ruminants, if sheep consume a 100%...

Just 3% of England is well protected for nature.

We can't afford to swap balanced scientific process to designate SSSIs with political choice.

Here's a briefing explaining how the process really works & why we need more wildlife sites, not more politics:
wcl.org.uk/docs/Sites%20o…

If you treat your dog or cat or rabbit with a 'spot-on' flea treatment, please read this... & please retweet to spread the word. theconversation.com/pet-flea-and-t…

Are you a sheep farmer looking to move towards a pasture-fed system? 🐑

Our new #Sheep Case Studies showcase how sheep farmers across different regions of the UK, each with unique farming systems, soil types, and flock sizes, all farm 100% pasture-fed.

pastureforlife.org/biodiversity/d…

Shakespeare's original rom-com Much Ado About Nothing meets 1940s Hollywood glamour, a live jazz and swing soundscape, warring film stars and a seriously hilarious cast. Are you as excited as us?

12 Apr - 18 May. Book now at - watermill.org.uk/much-ado 🎟

🎥 by Alex Ryland-Jones

The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did | Alison Benjamin theguardian.com/commentisfree/…