Farming North Herefordshire Topics
17 March 2017 by Green Party Admin
North Herefordshire’s Green Party parliamentary challenger Dr Ellie Chowns last week debated post-Brexit agriculture policy in front of an audience of more than 60 agriculture students and staff at Hartpury College, Gloucestershire, outlining the important choices ahead if we are to get the best future for our food and farming sector. In the debate with […]
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Chris Evans Comment North Herefordshire
22 December 2016 by Green Party Admin
Chris Evans grew up in a comfortable home in Herefordshire, but after gaining a forestry degree and joining VSO, he found himself in a harsh environment where communities struggle to survive on degraded land. His arrival in 1985 was the beginning of a lifelong association with people and farming in the mountains of Nepal where […]
Farming Herefordshire Topics
1 February 2016 by Green Party Admin
Herefordshire Green Party councillors have criticised the way in which Herefordshire Council is handling the sell-off of the County estate, which was agreed in December, and have called for notices to quit to a group of tenants to be withdrawn. The Greens say a clear plan of action should have been drawn up, and a […]
Farming Topics
3 December 2015 by Green Party Admin
A Cabinet meeting of HCC decided on December 3rd 2015 to sell off all 45 of the Council owned small farms, totalling 4800 acres. This decision was made by the 7 Councillors who comprise the Cabinet despite an earlier recommendation of the Council’s General Overview and Scrutiny Committee (GOSC) to retain the estate and secure its viability through a structured […]
19 May 2015 by Green Party Admin
George Monbiot writes in The Guardian about the impact of intensive chicken farming and specifically mentions an application in Herefordshire which has thankfully been rejected, for now.
