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  • RAGGED ROBIN REVIEW

     The National desire,  fever even,  for cheap food can be traced back to the repeal oCorn Laws in 1846 when land owners and farmers were forced to sacrifice agricultural protection for the sake of cheap food. The corn laws,  seen and experienced by the working class, as an arisocratic conspiracy to redistribute income away from…

  • MARIS WIGEON AT MAPE

    8.06.2025  MARIS WIGEON AT MAPLEFIELD It’s not difficult to write about Maris widgeon wheat;   if you want to raise a gramineae  forest  –   Maris will do it. If you’re Maris plants could be perennial,  not annual as all wheats are,  you’d be made-up. Now more ecocidal cultivations season upon season;   no weeds to fight,  just…

  • KENSON ORGANICS  –  A THANKYOU LETTER

    KENSON ORGANICS (VEG)…………THIS IS IT ! From the cheerful corner of Salisbury Charter market that is Kenson Organics ,under that colourful awning, I buy from ever- cheerful Russell, his glasses with the sun visors open like the upwardly opening doors of a sports car ,   two generous bundles of asparagus,suddenly and abruptly poking up through…