Comfrey can be found growing wild around the countryside. It’s a brilliant absorber of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium so a very useful plant in situations where we need to mop up nutrients before they get into waterways – for example where dirty water is running off a farm yard towards a river. It’s a […]
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This shrimp is the Rambo of the waterways. It’s a hardy wee thing that can withstand a reasonable amount of most forms of pollution and enrichment. You can expect to find them in all but the most polluted of waterways. They’ll be hanging out under the stones. If there is some nutrient pollution they’ll actually
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We took a tour of the new swale systems on a dairy farm outside Cookstown today. The system is a way of capturing and recycling nutrients and minerals that would otherwise be lost. The system is based on simple principles but a lot of thought has gone into the design. First of all clean spring
