Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
New Books in Environmental Studies
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How to Bring Back a Million Bees
Bees are really important because a third of our food worldwide relies on the pollination of creatures like bees. How do we bring them back at scale? Some fantastic farmers, Mark and Paul Haywood in Suffolk, have been working this out themselves. They've worked out that by interspersing their pigs or their crops with essentially football pitches of wildflowers, they can work out how to bring back a million bees. And it's not just bees, of course. You'll be bringing back birds. You will be bringing back soil health in a fantastic symbiosis. We're talking about re-naturing where you're looking at your farm and thinking, well, actually 85%
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