Stop buying imported flowers

The global warming effects of air-freighting flowers from abroad may not be directly obvious to the person in the street, but there are other, more immediate threats to people and the environment.

Today’s Guardian reports how supermarket flowers empty Kenya’s rivers.

Kenya’s second largest river is a life-sustaining resource for nomadic farmers as well as for the local environment, but the river water is being stolen to sustain flower farms supplying the UK supermarkets.

A bermy bunch

Despite the broken toe, I lurched outside this morning to continue work on our berm bulding project.

A berm, in environmental usage, is a bank of earth used to slow the surface runoff of water and give it more time to soak into the ground.

Berms reduce the velocity of the water, direct water to areas where it can be allowed to lie or a combination of the two.

Daft prices for weaners

The Other Half and I have just gone through the local free ads newspaper, Scot-Ads, browsing for cars, corrugated iron, and the like.

A couple of ads for weaner pigs really caught our attention, not because we want any more at the moment but because of the prices being asked.

This is the third time in the past month that we’ve seen separate buyers asking just £25 each for weaner pigs, far below the costs of buying, feeding and keeping an in-pig sow, then feeding and keeping her and her litter.