The Land Issue 27

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OPINION
 
Take A Breath
 
Manna From Finland
 
NEWS
Stepping on the Gas; Seeing the Wood for the Trees; 5G: A Right Two and Eight; Paper Chase; Planes into Ploughshares; Bags for Life; Stash Your Cash; Billionaire Tells Tenants to Skip Lunch; Garway Wins the Title
 
We Want Poppies
Natalie Sauer joins the French resistance to pesticides.
 
CLIMATE AND TRANSPORT
 
Cars: an Exit Strategy
Simon Fairlie discusses how the addiction might be cured.
 
We'll Always Have Paris
Mike Hannis on the decline of climate co-operation.
 
High Speed Drain
Joe Goodman discovers that HS2 may threaten London's water supply..
 
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Confessions of a Lockdown Sceptic
What was it all for, asks Simon Fairlie.
 
Final Meeting With a Remarkable Man
An obituary by SM Parsons.
 
AGRICULTURE
 
Continuous Grain Cropping
John Letts explains how to grow wheat without rotation.
 
Can We Forgive the Plough?
Adam Payne investigates claims made for reduced tillage.
 
Gold Under The Ferns
Hugh Colvin sees potential for reforesting land currently under bracken.
 
Ask Not What Soils Can Do For Us
Ellen Fay on why asking how many harvests left misses the point.
 
GOING UNDERGROUND
 
A Home in the Hillside
Gill Barron surveys the underground housing scene, past and present.
 
Tunnel Visions
Survival bunkers, paranoia, and evangelical extremism in the USA.
 
Bunkering Down in NW3
Two very different underground homes on Hampstead Heath.
 
Rats on the Run
Rats will always be with us, as Gill Barron reports.
 
Pushing Up the Veggies
SM Parsons on human composting and natural burial.
 
The Worldwide Web of Fungus
Tim Peters reviews Merlin Sheldrake's new book on the incredible life of fungi.
 
Grass Roots Redistribution
Richard Brown reveals the unique properties of yellow rattle.
 
Burrowers Books
Two reviews with a subterranean theme.
 
FEEDBACK
from Queer Landworkers and others
 
PLANNING, HOUSING AND LAND OWNERSHIP
 
The Urgency of Space
Old inequalities are sharpened under lockdown, says Nick Hayes.
 
A Shed of my Own
Vicki Steward found hers very convivial.
 
We Are Not Despondent
Geoff Goss stands up for urban swimmers.
 
A Capital Charity
Gill Barron suspects less than charitable motives.
 
I'm Not Leaving
Tess Delaney reacts defiantly to being refused OPD permission.
 

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