Feed the Land: The moon before Fully Ripe

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Sometimes life in the civilized world creates symptoms & situations that demand crossing borders for remedy & solutions. A massage helps, a prescription might do, but often it’s ...

Story these symptoms crave.

This is another story, a medicine story about land, not property, about people, not consumers, about community not ownership, about pirates dressed in everyday clothes, about hearts and souls craving remedy and solutions that criss-cross the borders. More of my medicine stories can be read here.

About the Hare

Hares actually prefer to eat wild grasses and herbs, with grasses predominating in the winter and herbs in the summer, but 150,000 miles of hedgerow have been destroyed during the past 50 years - depriving hares of this source of food and shelter. Larger fields containing single crops also mean hares have to travel further in their effort to maintain continuous grazing.

Credit: Gordon Jarvis

Hares are renowned for their phenomenal powers of acceleration to 45mph, yet have a habit of ‘sitting tight’ to the ground when a predator approaches. This makes them vulnerable to being killed by farm machinery. Thirty dead hares were once found in a carrot field which had been sprayed with pesticide. They had ‘sat tight’ while the spray boom passed overhead and ingested the poison when they licked themselves clean. Many leverets(young hare in its first year) too are killed by grass mowing machinery in silage fields as they wait for their mothers to return at dusk to give them their single daily feed. Increased stock density in fields and increased movement of stock between fields disturbs hares in their daytime ‘lying up’ sites. This may cause them to move to fields destined for silage cutting.

http://www.hare-preservation-trust.co.uk/status.php

Feed the Land

Friday, September 16, 2016

The moon before Fully Ripe

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