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The View from the Glasshouses 21 Jan 2013 | 09:22 pm
Thanks to the continuing development of social media, it’s now possible to pick up posts from other sites and republish them here making this a more powerful resource for people interested in the deve...
Your Taps are on Fire – NFU Online 21 Jan 2013 | 09:18 pm
NFU description AlanRae‘s insight: Another recent post for the NFU which expresses surprise at the way planners nod through applications for dodgy operations like fracking while fighting tooth and n...
Farming and genetics – NFU Online 21 Jan 2013 | 09:12 pm
NFU description AlanRae‘s insight: This is a post I wrote after going to the LEAF conference in 2011 and listening to Prof Baulcombe talking about GM. Since there’s usually more heat than light in t...
New Fruit Industry Apprenticeships available – fully funded! 16 May 2012 | 05:27 am
At last some real progress in the Apprenticeship saga. One of the big issues at present is the limited nature of funding available from central government and the very restrictive range of eligibility...
Future Leaders for Production Horticulture. 28 Feb 2012 | 04:30 am
One of the things that struck me during the growing Jobs project was that the official channels of horticulture education – at least on the production side – had come to an impasse with very few horti...
Growing Jobs videos on You-Tube 5 Jan 2012 | 11:34 pm
One of the great things about social media is that the tools that we have at our disposal for getting our message across get more powerful all the time. YouTube has recently revamped their channel fa...
Growing together implementation plan from West Sussex Growers. 5 Oct 2011 | 08:20 pm
West Sussex growers have recently released an update to their strategic plan for developing horticulture in their area. There are three key priorities that have been identified. Strategic Priority 1 ...
New training programme for land based industry managers 4 Oct 2011 | 04:52 am
New training programme for Managers Concordia has introduced a new training programme starting in early November aimed at middle managers in the land based sector. In conjunction with Plumpton Colle...
The full report, case studies and evidence base is now available as a paperback. 11 Aug 2011 | 04:57 am
This book came from a project carried out for SEEDA to develop some general principles about how to build a world class workforce for the horticultural industry. I talked to about 30 growers and unear...
Is sustainability the new black? 20 Jan 2011 | 12:59 am
Last week I was giving a talk on the Growing Jobs Project to the British Independent Fruitgrowers association’s Technical Day What was particularly interesting was that all of the talks had working s...
