John Holman welcomes you to Edition 32 of Farm Radio. 
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Click on the signpost to find your way to "Chalk and Cheese" and "Levels and Moors" items.
| The world is waking up to the concept of sustainability and central to that is energy: how we conserve it or how we can generate it from alternative sources and technologies. Geoff Pagotto investigates the possibilities for farmers to become part of the solution.
Please also see "Can we grow our own petrol" Farm Radio Edition 22.
Contact:
CLA website
Biopower website
Green Spirit Fuels website
Bical website
Bioheat website
Energy Crops Company website
Voil website
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 Many strange and wonderful things go on in The Balsam Centre in Wincanton, that houses amongst other projects, Farm Radio's studio and Margery Hookings interviewed project manager, Sue Place about a new European funded project which is intended to help and encourage people to move forward into new directions with their lives. Anyone within a 10-mile radius of the Balsam Centre is welcome and Sue would particularly like to hear from people who have been in farming and are now looking for a new challenge.
Contact:
info@balsamproject.org.uk
01963 31842 |  For the sheep shearing contests at the Bath and West, Roger Crisp was in the thick of things to see what was happening and to find out how the judging is done with expert guidance from veteran official, Roy Coker. All the sheep are from the Pullins' farm at Abbotsbury and the family had a strong presence both in the competitions and with three generations in the audience. In the midst of the shearing, Farm Radio correspondent, Caroline Woolley of the British Wool Association, gave an insight into how British Wool Marketing Training helps with everything from sheep dips and shearing to training sheep dogs.
Contact: www.britishwool.org.uk |  As a keen cyclist I am a bit uneasy about moves to take minority road users, cyclists, horse riders and walkers for example, off the roads and I think that it is vital to continue to assert our right to safely use the public highways for our chosen modes of transport.
However, as everyone who rides a horse will understand, there are circumstances when the experience of riding on a road is, to say the least, devoid of pleasure and, at worst, terrifyingly dangerous.
TROT, Toll Rides (Off-Road) Trust, exists to expand the network of available routes for riders and carriage drivers in a way that benefits the users and the landowners mutually. Here Colleen Jackson talks on the phone to chairman Dora Pilkington.
We hope to bring you more from this interview in future editions of Farm Radio.
Contact: www.tollrides.org.uk |
