Bullock enjoying some Hazel browse. Hazel leaves- highly palatable are rich in tanins-a natural anthelmintic. Research in dairy cows grazing Hazel shows reduced methane yield. @RareRuminare @organictrust @Agroforestry @agriculture_ie

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Our #HorsesMouthMentorship programme has kicked off, with up to 40 farms across Ireland being visited by our #FFNAmbassadors, offering advice and support to farmers that want to do more for nature. Here is Clive Bright @RareRuminare on some of his visits.

Thank you. You understood what @GeorgeMonbiot & many people missed when he put out a smoke screen to avoid debate. Desertification in seasonal rainfall environments (brown areas below in picture) is due to loss of biodiversity caused by slow chemical oxidation that replaces rapid biological decay of billions of tons of annually dying grass. It was clearly explained here ten years ago bit.ly/1gm0HIZ Started when humans killed off most large animals that maintained decay by trampling and with their moist gut containing micro-organisms digesting and excreting. Native Americans & Aborigines saw the damage when they killed off 80% of the genera of large animals & tried to prevent slow oxidation from killing life - by using fire (rapid oxidation) that began desertification on different continents about 60,000 years ago. As I showed, in what is now an American National Park, an irrigation-based Native American civilization was destroyed by desertification before Spaniards arrived with sheep & centuries before fossil fuels. Areas of the land 100 times larger than the UK, including national parks in US, Africa, Australia, etc are every year sending carbon & water from soil to atmosphere. The desertifying National Parks I showed tell us with scientific certainty that the cause of desertification is the way in which all governments and large environmental organizations @WWF @IUCN @TNC @AP and universities develop management policies. As long as most of the world’s land including vast National Parks larger than the UK is releasing water & carbon because of desertification, droughts, floods & climate change will continue no matter what we do. With an Oxford Think Tank having published a report saying climate change will globally wipe out all cities economies & businesses & billions of people will die in violence is why I said “To shorten this debate let us assume: The World’s soils can sequester no carbon. Cattle give off 20 times the methane they do. Every human becomes vegan”. I conceded Monbiot’s entire line of reasoning at the outset so that we could focus the debate on the way policies are developed that is causing climate change (there is no other cause known). And I then stated what I contend (the very basis of the debate) which was: --That we have to address the way in which policy is developed dictating management at scale. --And when we do that it will require millions more cattle, sheep, goats, camels, even if they are only eaten by vultures. I then asked Monbiot to now tell us how he (or any scientist) would reverse global desertification using technology? The entire future of humanity hangs on that question and I am willing to debate it with any scientist in the world to save billions of lives and offer young people hope. The rest is history as everyone saw – Monbiot spent the entire time discussing carbon, methane & irrelevant papers by authors who never mentioned oxidation or any aspect of my life's work calling them "peer reviewed" when none were by any of my peers. Here is oxidation (several years of slow chemical breakdown) killing grass and soil life in the Aldo Leopold Memorial Forest on the Rio Grande river in the US - and just the desertifying areas of Africa over a hundred times the size of the UK (which is same size as the desertifying little island off the African coast. We need to start taking climate change seriously.

Join us for Culture SHIFT at 3pm today in @HawksWellSligo with @IrishRainforest, Elizabeth Clyne of Noji Architects, Clive Bright of @RareRuminare and @EithneHand Tickets €10 cairdefestival.com/events/cu…

Holistic Management is the foundation of all we do here. We're thrilled to be hosting @3LM_HM to provide in-person training in the Fundamentals of Holistic Management next week 12th - 14th in June 2023. Course is part funded by @NatOrgSkill nots.ie for details.

This is a delight youtu.be/OR4zcyk76u4

Standard practice - open IT, find Michael's article, read, smile, check if @catherineeats has written anything 😉... close IT, maybe do sudoku

nots.ie/events/holistic-mana… We are thrilled to be hosting @3LM_HM on the farm in June, where they will be delivering training in the Fundamentals of #holisticmanagement

youtu.be/Ya-QWvOoU7c Was delighted with the opportunity to speak about #holisticplannedgrazing in a webinar hosted by @3LM_HM. #winterstockpile #farmingwithnature #holisticmanagement #pasturefedbeef #organicbeef

If these were real pastures and not just doodles - Which one would photosynthesize more? How would they respond to drought or frost? Which would allow most rain to infiltrate? Answers on a postcard #holisticplannedgrazing @3lm_savory_hub @NatOrgSkill

A few days old and she already knows lying in the shade of this beautiful old hawthorn is the best spot to hang out in any kind of weather! #agroforestry #holisticplannedgrazing #holisticmanagement #restandrecovery #shelterandshade

youtu.be/9LTiqYLCP-Y Fantastic informative animation @GrasslandsIrl #biodiversity #communitydynamics #seminaturalgrassland

Webinar: Successfully Grazing through Seasonal Transitions with @RareRuminare

m.independent.ie/farming/for… Nice to see the occasional good news story!

Daily moves to keep up with the summer grass growth - we are now on a 30 day rotation. Leaving plenty behind so all the pastures build a stockpile reserve for when growth slows down in the Winter #holisticplannedgrazing #holisticmanagement