The Earth and Leaf Document Library

The Earth and Leaf reference library contains links to a wealth of articles researched from the internet by our staff. Generally they are of serious relevance, occasionally they get in simply because we think they are interesting or even funny. We also add our own editorial comment to each article, explaining its relevance. We always reference our sources, authors and all images.  We would like to thank all these photographers, authors, journalists and researchers for their fantastic work.

 

The Earth and Leaf Reference Library
Gawthrop from the Lunds Allotment in Dentdale

Our subject material is scientifically accurate and factually proven. Many subjects are covered, particularly climate change, sustainable agriculture and farming systems. We now know that our planetary biodiversity and our ecosystems are essential to climate stability and we mess around with them at our peril.

The UK itself has some unique challenges such as our upland hill farming systems which require radical overhaul. Politically we have this crazy idea that we must grow all our own food. That is not possible and is also poor use of resources and puts terrible pressure on our wildlife, wetlands and watercourses.

There’s a lot of environmental protection stuff in here too. You will see that we are passionate about habitat rehabilitation. However, rewilding is a term we do not think is acceptable because it implies we are anti farming which is far from the case. Farming does have to change in order for our world to survive and this is covered extensively in the Earth and Leaf blog. This will be driven by absolutely necessary changes in the human diet. Without those changes we cannot halt global warming. Happy reading!

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Document Library - Sustainability and Climate Change

The UK Needs More Grazing Livestock

"Is it really the case that the UK needs more grazing livestock not less?  The answer is emphatically no.  However the species variety needs to change, numbers must fall and the way they are managed must be modified dramatically. I fully realise it was part of a light hearted debate, but it is provocative. Professor Jude Capper should know better.  I am very surprised that someone at this academic level deliberately misleads her audience on the formation of soil in order to support their own misguided belief that they are guardians of the countryside."...

The Amazons biggest trees are dying

The Amazons biggest trees are dying. Really? Forest coroners investigate. As tropical forests are degraded and decline at increasing rates the world over, the fate of these forests’ largest trees remains unknown. Big trees store a huge amount of carbon, so assessing their current mortality rates and causes of death (especially due to escalating climate change) is vital to calculating how much tropical forest carbon sinks could decline in the future.  In perspective too, the biggest trees are quite likely to be the oldest trees.  This in part may be why the Amazons biggest trees are dying...

Remembering Gerald Durrell at 100

I will be remembering Gerald Durrell at 100 which is what he would have been yesterday.  I devoured Gerald Durrell's books as a child.  I read the lot, several times over.  I fell in love with nature and our environment long before I fell in love with farming.  Our family farm was pretty unintensively managed.  My life has gone full circle and now I am fighting for nature and farming...

The Best Climate Resolution This Year

Do nothing, that is the best climate resolution this year.  Everything else we (you) do seems to make no difference.  That must not stop us trying.  I'd ask one small thing.  Show your friends this website, it might just help...

Upland farmers face huge cut in profit

Upland farmers face huge cut in profit.  This is exactly what Earth and Leaf is about - fixing this problem.  Of course, the headline Upland farmers face huge cut in profit" implies upland farming is profitable which is an interesting assumption.  Let's get these farmers a decent income in return for a sustainable output.  Keep farming families on the land, provide employment, reduce environmental damage, reduce carbon emissions and boost woodland and wildlife.  By the way, its not just Yorkshire that will be badly affected.  This is what our Shepherds of the Trees project aims to do and to do it we have to change hearts and minds...

Improve carcase weight and meat quality

“Shorter lairage will improve carcase weight and meat quality.  It is really all about stress and fear.  The practice is inherently cruel.  Transporting the animals long distances to modern “efficient” abattoirs is another factor.  If we can, through sustainability and regenerative farming practices, de-intensify livestock production it will also help.” {Earth and Leaf Editorial}     Shorter lairage will improve carcase weight and meat quality     Shorter pre-slaughter lairage improves carcase weight and meat quality, study shows   SHORTER waiting times before slaughter for cattle at Australian Country Choice’s Cannon Hill processing facility could produce a 4.64kg/carcase weight advantage, according to a new study. Shared across the wider Australian red-meat industry, the research findings could offer a way to improve...
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