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Farming for our futures: The full story of How The Prince of Wales turned Sandringham organic

Farming for our futures: The full story of How The Prince of Wales turned Sandringham organic
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The 10 best trees you ll find in Britain, from Alder to Scots Pine

Country Life Trending: John Lewis-Stempel picks out his ten favourite British trees. To celebrate our 125th anniversary next year, Country Life has launched a Trees for Tomorrow campaign which will see us plant thousands of trees. Find out more and get involved at www.countrylife.co.uk/trees-for-tomorrow.  Oak Quercus petraea (sessile oak) The quintessential and commonest British tree, the source of good British things, from acorns for fattening swine to the timbers of Nelson’s navy. Q. petraea thrives better on uplands. Some veteran oaks witnessed the arrival of the Vikings; such trees are nature reserves in their own right.

Trees remind us of our insignificance, our transience, and the necessity of wonder

Trees remind us of our insignificance, our transience, and the necessity of wonder
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The secret life of chickens: It turns out the humble pecker is something of an egghead

Country Life Trending: April 24, 2021 They may seem dim, but chickens are off to investigate the world Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Assumed to be the lowest in the avian-intelligence pecking order, chickens are, in fact, more like feathered imitators of Sherlock Holmes, says John Lewis-Stempel. Why did the cockerel cross the track? To get to the barn, where the chicken feed is now stored. Our Maran cock, Robespierre (‘the terror of the farmyard’), on discovering that the metal feed bin was not in its usual place in the woodshed, had gone off exploring to find it. Chickens? Often assumed to be the lowest in the pecking order of avian intelligence. The reality? The world’s most common farmed animal there are 19 billion chickens on planet Earth is not such a dumb-cluck.

Fionola Meredith: Out of sight, out of mind: our attitude to factory farms

Today, more than ever before, our pets are treated as a part of the family. We feed them specially developed diets, provide them with memory-foam beds and lavish them with expensive treats. The quality of life of these pampered creatures is far better than that of many human beings. The animals we share our homes with have a very different experience to the ones we breed to consume. Their lives are mostly nasty, brutish and short. But we block our ears and eyes to the realities of factory farming because it s easier that way. We get to have our meat, and eat it too.

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