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Tagging gannets on the Bass Rock

Tagging gannets on the Bass Rock.

Tagging gannets on the Bass Rock.

I was lucky enough to visit the Bass Rock with Leeds University scientists to tag gannets. A short piece has already appeared in the Guardian Country Diary so I just wanted to add a few photos here and note my family connection to the island.

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Are genetically modified organic community-owned farms the future?

Microdosing crops with fertiliser using a bottle cap

Microdosing crops with fertiliser using a bottle cap. Copyright Gordon Conway

It was a perfectly nice day out in the Suffolk countryside but the organisers of Aldeburgh Food Festival decided to liven things up with a ‘Frankenstein’. As Sir Gordon Conway pointed out to the audience at Snape Maltings he was part human, part pig. Read more