Welcome to this issue of ‘RURAL POST’ 

This is an e-mail newsletter extension of the RURAL - Jersey Country Life magazine. 
The earlier issues of this newsletter can be viewed at www.ruraljersey.co.uk/rural-post 
 

As soon as it arrives, we shall be posting copies to our postal subscribers and will then start delivering it around the Island.

It can also be read on our website: www.ruralersey.co.uk/past-issues.

ENVIRONMENT
By Caroline Spencer
 

 

An ambitious, inclusive community horticultural project is being planned for a field in Sion.

 

Forest therapy in Jersey - with Amanda Bond.

AGRO-ECOLOGY
 

A new online programme has been put together, described by its creator,
India Hamilton, as a new ‘journaling programme’, by SCOOP, Jersey’s Sustainable Cooperative, to share food stories about transitioning toward a sustainable food system and covering food politics, business and innovations. The first issue is shown on RURAL’s website - a review by India of the recent Oxford Real Farming Conference. 
 

Also from India Hamilton, writing with Milly Warner, is this discussion document on how to create the infrastructure to support the transfer of knowledge and resources between people working within, and moving towards, small and diverse farming.
 

Gill Barron https://ipaint2.com
http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk

If agri-ecology is of interest to you, please see our ‘What’s for Dinner?’ section of the RURAL website - where a virtual feast of ideas is on the menu.
 

Your help is requested to help this localism initiative in Sark. By Richard Axton.
 

JÈRRIAIS

 

Continuing our series of articles in Jèrriais. Our contributor this time is
Jean Le Maistre.

 

This year the Spring flower show of the RJA&HS will have a new element to it: displays in many shop windows in town. By Rachelle Robinson.

 

Not one competition in this issue of RURAL but two:

 

Enter on-line at ruraljersey.co.uk/competition

 ‘A subscription implies that this journal will be sent to the subscriber until one of the three expires’ – ‘England, Their England’ by A.G. Macdonell (1933)

A note from the editor:
I hope the quotation above from that gentle, pre-war satire of the contemporary English way of life amuses you as much as it did me when I re-read the book recently.
 
RURAL magazine is available on subscription to be posted to your letter box – which we do the same day as we receive the copies from the printers. So it is always ‘hot off the press’ when you receive it!
 
 For Jersey residents, it remains the best way of receiving the magazine regularly, without having to rely on picking up a copy from an outlet that maybe has stock, or maybe hasn’t temporarily,  at the moment that you happen to pass by. For Jersey ‘expats’ abroad, or friends of the Island who prefer reading a ‘real’ book or magazine to the virtual variation, it is a good way of keeping in touch with the Island.
 
It remains a free magazine: the only cost is to cover the postage:
Annual subscription to receive the four quarterly issues:
Within Jersey: £10; UK and other Channel Islands: £12; Europe: £24; Rest of world £40.
 
Do please enquire further by e-mailing editorial@ruraljersey.co.uk  or phoning me on 01534 865334