Alice Thornycroft.

@AdeysAlthorp Why are you disparaging countryside tourists? They bring money to your community, and pretty sure they're not carrying huge cardboard boxes wapped up in Fragile parcel tape. Lazy locals flytipping more like!

Another truck load of rubbish left by "countryside lovers". This road was cleared only 2 weeks ago by locals and myself! Disgraceful behaviour but widespread sadly. Conservation@althorp.com #trash

@visitnorthyork Arrogant land owners.

If you had to name the biggest problem destroying the countryside, what would it be?

@TheKentAcorn Proper signage and path demarcation will solve that.

Woodland wildflowers appear in their thousands just as soon as people stop walking on their homes

Will you get one of the new plug in solar panels? ☀️☀️☀️ The cost is expected to be around £400 and is likely to save between £70-£110 per year. So in 4 years, it will have paid for itself. 💚

Until the privileged folk stop gatekeeping nature rather than educating and embracing, they'll never convince the general public that countryside issues matter.

Rider-Waite (Rider-Waite-Smith) tarot, 1st edition (1909) designed by artist, illustrator and writer Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith - (The Fool card) #WomensArt #AprilFoolsDay #PaperArtWeek

Rotherham, England replaced 8 miles of mowed grass with wildflowers. They saved £25,000 in mowing costs a year and bees, butterflies, and birds showed up almost immediately. You don’t need to wait for your city to act. Start small in your own patch: 🏡 Let your front verge or sidewalk strip go wild this spring 🌻 Toss a few native wildflower seed balls into neglected spots 🌱 Stop mowing one strip and see what shows up 📧 Contact your city government. One email from one person has started initiatives like this before One person. One small patch. Real habitat. Your street could be next.

@Rosewood_Farm @AlBuHarg Estimates for the Woodcock for example run to 140,000 shot PA. Half a millions ducks shot per year. Not sure wildfowlers really discriminate. Certainly the clamp down on uncontrolled dogs generally will have a positive impact too.

@oakthrone @AlBuHarg thousands more dying from more chronic disturbance & poisoning by people & dogs seems somehow, an acceptable form of collateral damage because it's not as immediately obvious that the two events are related?

These species aren’t under pressure from shooting, they’re under pressure from development and water pollution, yet again shooting is being used as a scapegoat

@Rosewood_Farm @AlBuHarg People hunting them for sport, obviously!

@oakthrone @AlBuHarg Who is killing thousands of endangered animals for fun, exactly?

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker #Monday

@KayBurley @bbcquestiontime No… it was a democratic vote and Nature won.

Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), English illustrator best known for an early 20thc series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers #WomensArt #Spring

@Stjohnsfieldsra @TonyJuniper A bit of soil erosion. Signage indicating appropriate modes of travel. Clear, usable pathways. These are solvable issues, but does require a little effort from developers and land owners.

@TonyJuniper This is what human encroachment causes from housing around our SSSI now. What will it be like with housing virtually all the way round as is currently being considered??

A LOT of frog spawn in a little naturalistic wetland next to a relatively new housing development in #Cambridge. Housing & Nature next to one another - no problem. Blending this kind of habitat into new housing is not that complicated (& the wetland helps reduce flood risk).

@sussexfarming Not sure feeding cows the 3.5 million tonnes soya bean the UK imports each year makes Cows Milk more environmentally friendly than humans just drinking the soya bean?

We live in a funny world where 2 pints of coconut or soya piss cost the same as 4 pints of one of the most nutritious and environmentally sound products in the world.

Nothing quite as out of touch as a farmer blaming 'cheap food'. Food banks supplied 2.9 million emergency parcels last year. trussell.org.uk/news-and-resea…

These arguments aren't about defending farmers from muddle-headed ecologists. They're about putting agri-industrial profits before people and planet.

38% of all food in the U.S. goes unsold or uneaten. The system is broken and addicted to artificially inflating yields and destroying nature to drive profit. Scaling back industrial agriculture isn't 'pop-ecology' it's environmental realism. fda.gov/food/consumers…

An interesting read. For me it sounds like a someone stuck in outdated industrial agri-business economics railing against the checks and balances being put in place to mitigate the devastation that overproduction wreaks. 40% of Americans are obese. Nobody needs such high outputs.

@TWBFarms @FlowerdewBob On a global scale, are lower yields bad thing? Cultures addicted to artificial fertilisers have massive health issues (poor nutrition, obesity). 40% of the food they produce just goes to waste rather than redistributed to the starving under the current economic system.

so what’s the viable (real not pipe dream) alternative that doesn’t mean lower yields and inability to feed half the global population? I would love to farm without synthetic N but people will starve and i will go bankrupt……. from a long term committed and experienced “regen” farmer who has tried many alternatives over the last 20yrs

HIGHLY INFORMED & PRACTICAL ADVICE ACTUALLY. I've never claimed Nitrogen fertilisers have not increased crops, however their method of manufacture has become unecological & uneconomic (except with surplus electrical power) & we need to modernise.

Design for a Art Nouveau style brooch, 1901 by Glasgow Shool artist Frances MacDonald #Womensart