Environment

Biodiversity- what is it and why is it important Wine growing is a monoculture, the opposite of biodiversity, but we can mitigate this. In this article I outline the biodiversity crisis and what [...]

Frost April 7, 8 and 13, 2021 – impact and assessment Many of our mailing list subscribers (signup here) and readers have reached out about the frosts that hit France in the last week. [...]

A walk on the wild side This is a short photographic walk through the wild things – a 3 hectare conservation and biodiversity zone at chateau Feely. Sean had found a giant tree that he [...]

Latest pesticide statistics make for dismal reading This week the French association Generations Futurs released their ‘Glyph Awards’ the award for the biggest consumers of pesticides [...]

Follow your Dream Have you ever done the exercise to dream where you would like to be in 5 years? It sounds so simple but it is exactly what we did 5 years before we moved to France and we landed [...]

Seven Best Environmental Books to read during Covid Confinement In this post author, writer and teacher, Caro Feely, provides a list of must-read books for understanding our climate crisis and [...]

Caro’s meltdown, dancing with teatowels and coping with Corona stress In this post Caro Feely’s tells us about her corona stress meltdown, dancing with teatowels and other ways to [...]

What is organic farming? Simply put it is: – no chemical fertilisers – no herbicides or chemical weedkiller – no systemic pesticides (no systemic insecticides and no systemic [...]

Christian Puglisi – chef, entrepreneur and creator of the only certified organic Michelin Star restaurant Caro Feely met Christian Puglisi, chef, entrepreneur, dynamo and creator of the only [...]

In this time of biodiversity loss it is even more important to keep areas of wilderness and conservation Isabella Tree’s book Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm has experienced massive [...]