Geoff - this might interest you: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/sellingallotmentproduce.pdf Allotment Gardeners Can Sell their Surplus Crop "There is however, no restriction on the distribution, by sale or otherwise, of a certain proportion of the plotholder’s crop. Geoff Stokes, secretary of the...
I was saying this over a year ago: "But why stop here? I have said before that there is a business opportunity for hard pressed farmers to create a new business model. I am sure that a farmer, with a large chunk of land on prime growing soil, would easily get assistance from a local authority, or...
The first industry review of Saltex 2009 is now online. Steven Callaghan, director of Marwood Events and organiser of the Hard Landscaping Show, gives us his opinion on the show. "If you are a designer, hard and / or landscaper living more than a couple of hours away from Windsor I would say no...
Horticulture supplier Avoncrop went into administration on the 3rd September 2009. Administrators, Leonard Curtis are hoping to sell the business as a going concern.
I am not sure if this is plumped up story made worse by the press or if it is British fruit producers genuinely moaning that they are being hard done by. I live right in the middle of plum growing country here in the Lot et Garonne, France, and I can tell you, regardless of what the imported price is...
If anyone has any personal or professional landscape, design or general horticulture news they wish to publicise then send it to me at Landscape Juice (email: philipvoice@gmail.com and I will be delighted to add it as a feature. Landscape Juice is very much a community publication. I originally set it...
This goes to show how reliant HW are still on their magazine - I wonder what the ABC figure will be this year? The reason they [HW] cannot write in-depth on their site is because they cannot find the advertisers to pay their magazine rates - all the time the void between the revenue models is bound to...
Datura stramonium reminds me of Ricinus communis which is grown extensively as an ornamental bedding plant. It was the extract from The Castor Oil Plant - Ricin - that was used to kill the Russian dissadent Georgi Ivanov Markov in 1978 on Waterloo Bridge. So many plants can harm or kill - I would enjoy...
