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British Cheese: A secret yet to dis(wiss)cover
With this blogpost I’m fulfilling one of my newsyear-resolutions. My pal Richard from Newcastle has asked me many times to start blogging in his idiom. As there have been more requests of the kind over...
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Envy: Food and farming starring on BBC4
While specialised agricultural shows have long gone from Swiss TV- and Radio-Programmes, the broadcasting sky is much brighter for the british farm- and food-sector. At least on the radiowaves. As my...
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Throwback (into wintertime) at Trapper Creek
One of my favourite blogs is the Matron of hunsbandry’s “Throwback at Trapper Creek”. I’ve been following these anonymous farmers on the Pacific Northwest of the US for quite a while. I like their...
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The lawn has to go for our little yardfarm
This would probably be a major sacrilege, if we were living in England: Last tuesday, a tiny bulldozer entered our building-coops yard and started removing the lawn, well, just some of it. And for a...
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Irish farms with cows & against crows
It’s good to have a pal like Christian Mühlhausen, owner of Landpixel, a german agency for ag-pictures, who has specialised on travelling everywhere I have never been to. After Iceland, a few weeks...
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Return of the old school butcher
Spent the weekend in London for a birthday party. Stoke Newington in northeastern Hackney Borough is a small town in the big city. Home to many immigrants and recently getting more and more trendy....
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Poland on the Agroblog-Map
Finally, Poland has made it onto my blog. And this is purely thanks to my pal at work, Alois. Thanks, man. His wife Alicija is polish and they spent their sumerholidays in her homeland. “Here you are...
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ChinAg daily(2): Streetmarkets, night & day
Beijing has about 23 million inhabitants, those people have to eat everyday, and man, they like to eat. Wherever a round of chinese gather, it wont take long till they unpack a dozen of dishes in...
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North Korea drive-by-shootings
When I was in North Korea a month ago, it was not so easy to make pictures at all times. The national members of the delegations I used to travel around with were rather reluctant, when I asked them to...
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Besuch im Permakulturland / Permacultural visit
This is the first ever bilingual post on my blog. The reason is, that the described video made on an austrian farm is spoken in german, but has english undertitles. I found it on permies.com, “the...
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Indias farmers acting on Land Rejuvenation
My old Blog-Pal Heidi has sent me the link to an interesting picture gallery on the BBC-India-Site. Under the title: “Natural ways of increasing Indian yields”, the pictures and their captions describe...
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Horseburger: Tip of the iceberg & a chip pass
For almost two weeks now, a rather animalic scandal has been sending shockwaves through Englands meat processing and retail industry. When the Irish Food authority released the news about their finding...
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Aerial sheepviews of the week
I love to fly to Britain, when- or whereever you arrive, the first thing you see is green, drystonewalls and a flock of sheep. Above Newcastle, below Edinburgh.
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Springcows (2): Calves and their mums
Spring has come, at last. Well, he’s still a bit shaky, but growing fast, like these calves. With the temperature going up, so does the activity of my guest cow-photographers, luckily. Today it’s a...
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The Pros and Cons of Backyardchickens
The most frequent search term, that people get on my blog with, is “Hühnerhaus selber bauen” (german for “Build your own Henhouse”). The popularity of the subject of backyardchickens seems enormous....
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Agrentina (4): Where’s the beef?
This may seem like a weird question taking into account that Argentina is still one of the biggest meat producers worldwide with a per capita consumption of ca 60 Kilograms a year. But there have been...
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The inconvenient true price of a pork chop
Last night I became an impulse buyer. The german magazine “Der Spiegel” had a most remarkable cover, a piglet with Salami inside. The title on the cover of the magazine translates “The Pork-System –...
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Aerial sheepviews of the week
I love to fly to Britain, when- or whereever you arrive, the first thing you see is green, drystonewalls and a flock of sheep. Above Newcastle, below Edinburgh.
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Agrentina (4): Where’s the beef?
This may seem like a weird question taking into account that Argentina is still one of the biggest meat producers worldwide with a per capita consumption of ca 60 Kilograms a year. But there have been...
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Scotland(1): Stolen memories
Back from a few days in Scotland at the annual Congress of the International agricultural journalists (IFAJ) in Aberdeen. It was a very interesting trip. Imagewise I was most impressed by the...
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