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Two weeks ago I was listening to talks at the Oxford Real Farming Conference and last week I was at the inspiring Wilding Gardens conference at Manchester University with a stellar line up of speakers. I started writing about my highlights from the two conferences, but I went for a walk with the dogs and started to mull over what I was going to write. And something was bugging me - you will see why below.
The result is that week’s post has evolved into a focussed look at two talks, one from each of the conferences, the discussion about glyphosate at ORFC and Dave Goulson’s talk on pesticides at Wilding Gardens. Sorry, it’s pretty depressing, but we need to know what we are doing to our gardens, pollinators, food, pets an…
