‘MY MILK’ CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
Jersey Dairy has launched ‘My Milk’ a campaign which is aimed towards local children. They need to collect 25 tokens from Jersey milk cartons in exchange for a keep cool stainless steel My Milk flask. The tokens are found on the side of every Jersey Dairy fresh milk carton. Eamon Fenlon, Managing Director at Jersey […]
QUATORZE JUILLET – JERSEY STYLE
By Hamish Marett-Crosby July 14th is a big day in France. In previous years, local restaurants have created special menus to celebrate the event. However, with the current international situation, how can we be sure the French goods needed for the day will be available? One solution would be to internationalise Bastille Day and so double […]
STRATEGY UNDERWAY TO IMPROVE PROTECTION OF TREES
A new overarching strategy to protect trees in Jersey is being developed, with more than 50 stakeholders due to meet later this month. Environmental groups, local businesses, developers and farmers are among those who will meet to share ideas and discuss the strategy’s potential priorities at a workshop on 22 July. Following the workshop, Islanders […]
THE LANDSCAPES OF RURAL JERSEY
The RURAL Jersey Landscape and Seascape Awards evening was held on 9 July, as part of the Jersey Summer Exhibition at CCA Galleries International, Hill Street The winning picture in the 2021 –RURAL Jersey Landscape and Seascape Awards was Louise Ramsay’s Expanding Peace, La Rocque Runner up was Hazel Wynn’s Artwork 3 The winner of […]
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DURRELL LAUNCHES ‘REWILD CARBON
’By Caroline Spencer Durrell are calling on their supporters to invest in a new carbon offsetting programme. ‘Rewild Carbon’ offers businesses the opportunity to balance their carbon footprint by supporting Durrell’s conservation work in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The initiative was launched at Government House on 30 June in front of an audience of […]
BLANC PIGNON FARM SHOWS ITS NEW DAIRY PRODUCTS FOR THE FIRST TIME
A new dairy business was showing its range of products at the very first time at the RJA&HS Early Summer Flower Show last weekend: Blanc Pignon Dairy Farm. Manning the stall were David Leng, owner of the farm and production manager Indie Thompson… and their talented sales manager, Zola, a nine-week old Belington Whippet, who […]
FISHERIES SUPPORT SCHEME IS LAUNCHED
A scheme to provide interim financial support to the Island’s fishing industry has been approved by Ministers. The Fisheries Support Scheme will provide financial support for fixed costs and salaries incurred between May and August 2021, and will be available to businesses that are directly involved in activity related to fisheries. Its objectives are: * […]
THE LOST FARMS OF ST MARTIN – CAN YOU HELP?
THE former St Martin Deputy, Bob Hill, has been writing a book on the history of the farms in St Martin. But now he needs some help – not to find the lost farms, but to complete the project, as he is currently indisposed. Go back around 70 years and you would have found at […]
THEY’RE AT THE STARTING GATE….
By Ruth Le Cocq THE Coinshares Les Landes racecourse is ready. The horses are fit. The Bailiff said ‘yes’. This Friday evening (25 June) the Jersey Race Club will hold its first meeting since August 2019. A number of racehorses from the UK will be running alongside those locally owned and trained in what Jersey […]