{"id":549,"date":"2011-05-05T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T10:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=549"},"modified":"2011-05-05T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T10:50:24","slug":"an-original-day-out-at-duchy-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/05\/05\/an-original-day-out-at-duchy-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"An Original Day Out at Duchy Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeofwales.gov.uk\/personalprofiles\/residences\/highgrove\/homefarm\/\">Duchy Farm<\/a> yesterday at the invitation of the Food for Life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodforlife.org.uk\/\">Programme<\/a> [FFLP]. \u00a0I think this may have been because I'd had a hand in drafting the Programme's response to the recent National Curriculum consultation \u2013 a very interesting process (and outcome) that I've not been able to blog about.<\/p>\n<p>It was a really good day with key people from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soilassociation.org\/\">Soil Association<\/a> and FFLP there, and about a dozen\u00a0head teachers\u00a0from FFLP schools: excellent conversations. \u00a0We had a farm tour, a trailer ride, and were much nuzzled and licked by the cows. \u00a0I learned a lot about organic farming techniques, and had not fully appreciated before how low carbon (well, low<em>er<\/em> carbon) it is, and how integral this is with its economics \u2013 where any lowering of yield is balanced by lower costs (no hugely carbon- and water-dependent ammonium nitrate), \u00a0and a closed loop approach to soil nutrition and quality. \u00a0Ummh! \u00a0And, glory be, there were healthy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.british-trees.com\/treeguide\/elms\/nhmsys0000464701.htm\">Wych Elms<\/a> in the woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Duchy Farm yesterday at the invitation of the Food for Life Programme [FFLP]. \u00a0I think this may have been because I'd had a hand in drafting the Programme's response to the recent National Curriculum consultation \u2013 a very interesting...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}