Nicola Villars @fenteman

Event manager, Cake Baker, Amateur Food Photographer, farming supporter, mad keen swimmer, walking my beagle & very Yorkshire Harrogate Joined January 2012

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@runner_scarlet 🤣🤣🤣

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@runner_scarlet It was my only A

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@OliLondonTV And this is why I don't go to art things.

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@RafaelDaVentys I look after meetings and someday there will be 6 different companies having 6 separate meetings all talking corporate bullsh*t. I sometimes think they should just hire the big room together and thrash it out.

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@FoxNews I don't think I've ever purchased a Nike product ever.

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@wattreach I net those cattle like that shade

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@JustMissEmma Congratulations.

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@SineadWatson91 Number 3

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@Wyefarm Oh dear.

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@SineadWatson91 Good news

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@SineadWatson91 You can do it. You are strong.

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@GardenerFliss I love when bakes get eaten quickly. It means I get to bake something else.

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@TheJoeySwoll Some people really need to understand 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.

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@karenfthompson Looks gorgeous and sounds fabulous. If I'm ever down that way I'll be popping in. We have a kitchen garden at the hotel I work at. They do amazing things with the produce and lots of pickling etc

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6 days ago

@mcfadzean_neil My lad drives a big artic and says there are millions of idiot drivers out there. Look how the impact didn't even shift that truck. The van driver needs to lose his licence.

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6 days ago

@SineadWatson91 I always worry when you haven't posted for a while

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The potting shed @GardenerFliss

a week ago

Farming facts day 5 People often criticise farmers, “You need to diversify. You need to be better business people.” The funny thing is… we already do. Farmers run holiday lets, farm shops, cafés, workshops, wedding venues, contracting businesses and a hundred other things. Many farms simply wouldn’t still be here without them. But here’s the irony. Most of us only really want to grow food. We want to produce good British food and be paid a fair enough price for it that our farms are viable businesses, businesses we can care for and eventually pass on to the next generation, so they can carry on doing exactly that. Diversification, therefore, often isn’t a choice. It’s a necessity. And when those other businesses succeed, so often the money goes straight back into farming. We earn money elsewhere to subsidise producing food, caring for the land, tending hedgerows and protecting the countryside we love. Perhaps that’s the bit that gets forgotten. British farmers are so deeply attached to this land and this way of life that we will reinvent ourselves again and again just to keep farming. We diversify to survive. But what we really want to do is farm. @TWBFarms @NoFarmsNoFoods @wheat_daddy @andyburnham @NFUtweets @BBCBreakfast @CNN @elonmusk #savefamilyfarms @TheFarmingForum

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Sama Hoole @SamaHoole

a week ago

Clarkson's Farm streams in over 240 countries. The strongest demand outside Britain is American, running roughly twelve times the average US series, and the first episode took over five million views on Bilibili in China. A programme about one man losing money in a field in Oxfordshire, watched on four continents. The Dutch were first. On 1 October 2019 thousands of farmers drove tractors to The Hague over a proposal to halve the national livestock herd on nitrogen grounds. A thousand kilometres of traffic jams, the busiest morning rush hour in Dutch history. Within a month they had founded a political party, and four years later the BoerBurgerBeweging came first in all twelve provinces. Germany, January 2024. Tractors in nearly all sixteen federal states over diesel tax. France, roads and supermarkets blocked, and tractors back in Paris again this January. Poland, Belgium, Spain, Ireland. The European Commission pulled its plan to halve pesticide use, directly because of the unrest. Greece has been going since December. Highways, border crossings, ports and airports, over frozen subsidies and livestock disease. India produced the largest protest in human history by most measures. Farmers built a settlement outside Delhi with kitchens, schools and its own newspaper, sat in it for over a year, and the government repealed all three farm laws. America has lost 142,000 farms in five years and its average farmer is pushing sixty. Britain got 13,000 farmers and a thousand tractors in Westminster, and told itself it was arguing about one chancellor's budget. Different countries. Different governments, left and right. Different grievances on paper: nitrogen, diesel, subsidies, pesticides, inheritance tax, minimum prices. One complaint underneath the lot. The people who produce the food are the only ones in the chain who cannot set a price, cannot pass on a cost, and are told by everybody else what they may do with their own land. Which is why a Missouri rancher, a Dutch dairyman and a farmer in Punjab can watch a man in the Cotswolds fail to clear £144 and recognise their own books. The problem was always global. Clarkson just put subtitles on it.