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| Welcome to Pasture Promise TV, the site dedicated to real food and a vibrant, living countryside. We’re all about grasslands and grazing because we believe they make our lives better. They produce the healthiest foods without the need for pesticides and chemical fertilizers. This means they can protect our environment and wildlife while giving us a secure and sustainable food supply. Surely something worth celebrating? |
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| Decades of over-reliance on chemicals have robbed many arable soils of
their life and fertility. With the organic matter gone the chemicals
don't work any more. This is why wheat yields have been frozen for
years. The best way to bring life back to degraded arable lands is to
introduce pasture and grazing. Meet Tom Chapman, the grazing specialist
who wants to bring big cattle herds back to the wheat plains of East Anglia. |
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Farming in Balance
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A Wiltshire Organic Farmer finds traditional methods solve many of today's most pressing problems. |
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Farming Unplugged
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Taking the chemicals out of farming |
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End Global Warming
Why climate change experts need
to start thinking about grassland.
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Oxford Real Farming Conference
Robert Plumb asks the question: "How do you raise soil fertility?"
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Grazing for life
How grazing animals can put fertility back into worn out soils.
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Who says cattle are criminals?
Environmental consultant and farmer Dave Stanley doesn't. He believes they're the planet's best friends.
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Farming for carbon
Farmer and Nuffield scholar Robert Richmond finds out how grazing and soil carbon are linked.
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The future is grass
With all the talk of mega-dairies, one young farmer checks out the options and comes down firmly on the side of grassland and grazing.
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The really healthy diet
Doctor and nutritionist Natasha Campbell-McBride challenges some popular myths about healthy diets.
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A Question of Justice
A group of farmers near Bristol pioneer a new way of marketing good food to local people.
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Do nothing farming
What happens when you work with nature instead of battling against it? Something amazing, that’s what.
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