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Welcome to Stockfree Organic

Welcoming questions from farmers and growers who are already stockfree, or are considering converting to this method. We have a panel of experienced farmers and growers who will be pleased to answer questions and discuss any issues that you would like to raise.
Iain Tolhurst

We aim to provide articles that provide a cross section of the pros and cons of growing in different countries, climates and soil types; in protected and open environments and both field and market garden scale.

We welcome your articles, photos and suggestions. Please send them in!

 

 

A growing solution: How Stockfree Organic farming systems can help combat climate change

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We need to rethink the way in which we produce food, recognise its ecological implications, and adopt a more earth-friendly approach. Climate change is almost universally accepted as being caused by the release, through human activities, of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. Only professional deniers, funded by the fossil fuel lobby, and blinkered politicians, still doubt the science and mounting evidence of the human contribution to climate change. The earth’s current period of development has been coined the ‘anthropocene’ - a time when virtually all planetary ecosystems are being affected by, and in many cases seriously degraded by human activity.

How can Stockfree Organic systems help slow down climate change? This statement explains what can be done...

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Iain Tolhurst

"...large-scale stockless systems for cereals work both in terms of sustainability and economic viability"

Read Iain's response to an article appeared in the UK magazine Organic Gardening, giving the opinion that it was impossible to grow organically without using animal manures!

Many of the methods described have been explained in past editions of Growing Green, however this article also gives an insight into Iain's practical personal motivation.

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Reducing energy use and waste on the farm: A Case Study Energy Action Plan

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Presented to the Soil Association Conference January 2007

Iain Tolhurst

This presentation, heard by many of the big names in the conventional organic field, is just one example of Tolly's continual efforts to spreadthe message about stock free, environmentally friendly growing.

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