We currently spend £145 billion a year on the NHS treating many illnesses and diseases that are preventable. Agriculture now employs very few people in the UK whilst farmers spend billions of pounds each year buying equipment and machinery to replace the many who use to worked on farms across the country. Farmers have become isolated and have lost their natural support systems and social links resulting in appallingly high rates of mental illness and suicide in the industry. Many farm animals never walk in an open field due to indoor, mass, production. Those animals are fed a diet of millions of tons of cattle fodder that cost farmers an enormous amount of money to either grow, or buy, in addition to medicines and other pharmaceuticals that have become the norm within the “industry”. Change is needed and it is needed now...We are what we eat! Well done Richard for publicising these issues. Hopefully somebody out there is listening! 💚
Apart from anything else, it’s great to see a tradition being carried on, that my ancestors would have taken part in, as farmers and agricultural labourers for hundreds of years. Long may that tradition last!
Wow! This series has it all. So informative - courtesy of Michael and Jane - beautiful countryside/ wildlife/ plants and quite a lot of exercise in this one! .... and of course creative camerawork ! I wished I could be there sitting in the trailer with the hay, could almost imagine the glorious smell, a reminder of my childhood. Bravo. Often think it would be good to have an ' enhanced' Like button for the especially good videos :)
Countryfile on BBC had a very similar film recently, of a farmer in Shropshire doing pretty much the same thing but on a much larger scale of course. He had lots of cattle, Richard, but they were rather beautiful. I have to say though that yourr film was just as well filmed and the weather played it's part too.
The Joseph's are friends of ours and prioneers at having established wild flower meadows many years ago, way before it's become fashionable again. What a lovely video collation!
Michael is such a natural teacher! This really been quite enjoyable. When done w/ Michael & Jane's hay/wildflower meadow, perhaps you can talk them into giving us a tour of their cottage garden!?😁 I am really drawn in (& curious about) some of the plants that I i have been seeing in the last 2 vids.🌾🌺🌼🌻🌹🌸
Great work Richard, not only for the video presentation, love the different frame speeds that you used in this episode- but also for providing a platform thus helping promote this important message that Micheal highlights. I reckon this deserves a slot on national TV and beyond. 'Bald explorer educates England and inspires a change for the better' 👍
Really enjoyed watching this and very inspiring and informative. I have planted two wildflower meadows this year and am enjoying watching them come into flower. Thanks very much.
Excellent as ever mr vobes. However the idea is great and very idealistic. If it is such good fodder surely there should be some livestock grazing the meadow? Also these meadows have gone as they are not productive enough for a modern system. The era of farming being referenced was more local and the produce fed a smaller number of people and therefore could be produced in a more local and sustainable way. Modern methods are still local and sustainable, however the increasing population has to be fed, therefore methods have to change.
There is a difference in opinion here, from many. Modern methods, along with globalization and monoculture, haven't helped many farmers, from all I read. I gather huge numbers have left farming, some resorted to suicide; others are depressed, bearly making a profit, while supermarkets keep the pressure up for farmers to produce more cheaply. The more I learn about the modern way, less good it appears to actually help communities, employ people on the land. I am told it actually raises food prices, and provides for inferior food. It has turned farming into a huge industrialized business, with ill treatment of animals, reducing labour and distroying our countryside from the species rich landscape its has been for thousands of years.
Great video. Get back to making them like this and stop making the current trend of videos you’re putting out, that sort of stuff turns people against this kind of thing and does great damage to the good work done by people like the man in this video. Thank you, take care.
OMG, real cream and milk? Can you imagine this philosophy versus today's thought that we need margarine which is a spread used for flavoring, baking and cooking that was first made in France in 1869? Also, the historical centralization of the ideology of low fat in the late twentieth century appears to have had 2 major strands: (1) the American tradition of low-calorie, low-fat diets for weight reduction, (2) the diet-heart hypothesis dating from the post-World War II era. My grandparents and great grandparent farmers lived into their 90s. My farming parents made it through their mid 80s. Eaglegards...
This is the best mini series you have ever made Richard. Michael certainly knows what he is talking about. Looking forward to the next one.
We currently spend £145 billion a year on the NHS treating many illnesses and diseases that are preventable. Agriculture now employs very few people in the UK whilst farmers spend billions of pounds each year buying equipment and machinery to replace the many who use to worked on farms across the country. Farmers have become isolated and have lost their natural support systems and social links resulting in appallingly high rates of mental illness and suicide in the industry. Many farm animals never walk in an open field due to indoor, mass, production. Those animals are fed a diet of millions of tons of cattle fodder that cost farmers an enormous amount of money to either grow, or buy, in addition to medicines and other pharmaceuticals that have become the norm within the “industry”. Change is needed and it is needed now...We are what we eat! Well done Richard for publicising these issues. Hopefully somebody out there is listening! 💚
Apart from anything else, it’s great to see a tradition being carried on, that my ancestors would have taken part in, as farmers and agricultural labourers for hundreds of years. Long may that tradition last!
That hay looked good enough to eat! Nothing like the smell of newly cut hay! 💚
Wow! This series has it all. So informative - courtesy of Michael and Jane - beautiful countryside/ wildlife/ plants and quite a lot of exercise in this one! .... and of course creative camerawork ! I wished I could be there sitting in the trailer with the hay, could almost imagine the glorious smell, a reminder of my childhood. Bravo. Often think it would be good to have an ' enhanced' Like button for the especially good videos :)
Fantastic stuff Richard. Thank you.
Countryfile on BBC had a very similar film recently, of a farmer in Shropshire doing pretty much the same thing but on a much larger scale of course. He had lots of cattle, Richard, but they were rather beautiful. I have to say though that yourr film was just as well filmed and the weather played it's part too.
The Joseph's are friends of ours and prioneers at having established wild flower meadows many years ago, way before it's become fashionable again. What a lovely video collation!
So right fantastic content and such a great insight looking forward to part 3
I was looking forward to this episode and I wasn't disappointed- very enjoyable. Lovely filming Richard.
Michael is such a natural teacher! This really been quite enjoyable. When done w/ Michael & Jane's hay/wildflower meadow, perhaps you can talk them into giving us a tour of their cottage garden!?😁 I am really drawn in (& curious about) some of the plants that I i have been seeing in the last 2 vids.🌾🌺🌼🌻🌹🌸
Great story and very stylishly filmed. Thanks
Thanks, Andrew.
Richard, brilliant!!!! Loved the way this was filmed and what a important message to everyone, thank you my friend.
The medows not only beutiful but also improve the qualitys of life. I have enjoyed this miny series quite a bit! Thank you!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great work Richard, not only for the video presentation, love the different frame speeds that you used in this episode- but also for providing a platform thus helping promote this important message that Micheal highlights. I reckon this deserves a slot on national TV and beyond. 'Bald explorer educates England and inspires a change for the better' 👍
If only! :)
Love the construction of this film very artistic and informative.
Ooh I bet that smelt wonderful! One of my favourites, freshly mown grass!
It's so good!
Really enjoyed watching this and very inspiring and informative. I have planted two wildflower meadows this year and am enjoying watching them come into flower. Thanks very much.
Excellent stuff
Very nice sequence Richard, you don’t need me!
I enjoyed that, so many true facts that just highlight how good this practice is for the environment.
Really interested to see what happens next. Brilliant videos.
Superb production.
Wow!
Great video
Interesting to know what goes on in the countryside.
Beautiful and very intresting.
Many thanks!
That table and bench,window door frames need a rub down and staining!
This is fascinating stuff.
Cheers, Marq.
Fantastic
Wonderfully filmed, Richard - did you get to push the mechanical scythe? Looked like a family affair getting the hay in!
Sadly I didn't get a go! :)
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Excellent as ever mr vobes.
However the idea is great and very idealistic. If it is such good fodder surely there should be some livestock grazing the meadow? Also these meadows have gone as they are not productive enough for a modern system. The era of farming being referenced was more local and the produce fed a smaller number of people and therefore could be produced in a more local and sustainable way. Modern methods are still local and sustainable, however the increasing population has to be fed, therefore methods have to change.
There is a difference in opinion here, from many. Modern methods, along with globalization and monoculture, haven't helped many farmers, from all I read. I gather huge numbers have left farming, some resorted to suicide; others are depressed, bearly making a profit, while supermarkets keep the pressure up for farmers to produce more cheaply. The more I learn about the modern way, less good it appears to actually help communities, employ people on the land. I am told it actually raises food prices, and provides for inferior food. It has turned farming into a huge industrialized business, with ill treatment of animals, reducing labour and distroying our countryside from the species rich landscape its has been for thousands of years.
Great video. Get back to making them like this and stop making the current trend of videos you’re putting out, that sort of stuff turns people against this kind of thing and does great damage to the good work done by people like the man in this video. Thank you, take care.
Nice to see plants being established. But the healthcare claims are just . . .
OMG, real cream and milk? Can you imagine this philosophy versus today's thought that we need margarine which is a spread used for flavoring, baking and cooking that was first made in France in 1869? Also, the historical centralization of the ideology of low fat in the late twentieth century appears to have had 2 major strands: (1) the American tradition of low-calorie, low-fat diets for weight reduction, (2) the diet-heart hypothesis dating from the post-World War II era. My grandparents and great grandparent farmers lived into their 90s. My farming parents made it through their mid 80s. Eaglegards...
Richard, brilliant!!!! Loved the way this was filmed and what a important message to everyone, thank you my friend.