Under the SFI, farmers can receive money for turning their arable and horticultural fields into bee friendly wildflower meadows, grassland or planting species that can feed winter birds. The scheme has proved so popular to struggling farmers that last month the government was forced to issue a crackdown, warning that …
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AustralianFarmers Inspired by the good-food movement, Greg and Jodi Clarke’s pasture-raised Aylesbury and Pekin ducks are recognised by chefs as being some of the nation’s best. While former city-dwellers Greg and Jodi Clarke originally made the move to Port Campbell to enjoy a more laid-back lifestyle, establishing their own free-range …
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