FIREBLIGHT AFFECTING APPLES AND PEAR TREES IS NOW ESTABLISHED IN JERSEY
Fireblight, a serious disease affecting apple and pear trees as well as some other shrubs, is now established in Jersey with 66 cases found during Islandwide survey in June. As a result, the Infrastructure and Environment Department has concluded that the eradication of fireblight is no longer an option and Jersey is revoking is Protected […]
NEW RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP TO MAP WILDLIFE IN CHANNEL ISLAND WATERS
A study of how seabirds and other wildlife use Channel Island waters is taking place for the first time this year. Proposed by French researchers, the project involves a partnership between the French government and Channel Island organisations with the data produced being of great benefit to the communities and conservation organisations of all islands. […]
WATER YOUNG TREES IN HOT WEATHER
Hot weather can cause up to 30 per cent of young trees to die within the first years of planting, says a recent large-scale UK study. And with UN scientists claiming that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded globally, more than 1,000 tree species have been flagged as at risk due to climate change, […]
BE AT THE CENTRE OF THE CONVERSATION AT REGEN GATHERING
Thirty farmers and entrepreneurs from the UK, USA, France and the Channel Islands will be promoting healthy relationships with food and farming at this year’s Regen Gathering on 13th and 14th September at Le Tacheron Farm. Anyone who is interested in the food they eat and how it affects the environment, their health and society is invited […]
NEW SOLAR PANELS AT LA MARE WINE ESTATE HERALD THE ARRIVAL OF A GROUND-BREAKING ENERGY SOURCE IN JERSEY’S FIELDS?
Jersey Electricity and La Mare Wine Estate have joined forces to start testing which crops fare best growing around ground-mounted solar panels thus demonstrating to farmers how these can work alongside agriculture. And it is hoped that three other areas in St Clement, at Sorel in St John and La Rue d’Olive in St Mary […]
CHECK BEFORE YOU CHOP
The number of hedgehogs suffering strimmer injuries this summer has prompted the Jersey Hedgehog Preservation Group to urge everyone to ‘check before you chop’. A spokesperson suggested using a booted foot, a gloved hand, a rake or a stick to check in long grass and under hedges for sleeping hedgehogs and other wildlife and then […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH A FISHY FEUD
By Dr Paul Chambers, Jersey Heritage’s Head of Geopark In the spring of 1890 a young man from England stepped onto the St Helier quayside carrying a suitcase full of glass jars, metal sieves and scalpels. This was James Hornell, a graduate of Liverpool University College who had come to Jersey in search of marine […]
JERSEY GARDENING CLUB ZOOM IN ON PLANT PRODUCTION
The Jersey Gardening Club is hosting a presentation by UK award-winning plant breeder and perennial grower Graham Spencer on Zoom on 24th July at the Royal Jersey Showground starting at 7.30pm. Graham, the owner of Plant for Europe Ltd, lives in Uckfield, East Sussex, and his talk entitled ‘From Cuttings to Garden Centre – How Plants […]
NEW TREE ADVISORY BOARD TO TACKLE DEVASTATION CAUSED BY STORM CIARAN
A new Tree Advisory Board will help plan and coordinate tree planting in Jersey in response to the devastation caused by Storm Ciarán. And the process for the listing of trees is to be reviewed, modernised and strengthened to ensure the Island’s most important trees are included. The Minister for the Environment, Deputy Steve Luce, […]
TWO OF JERSEY’S OLDEST PROPERTY BUSINESSES NOW OPERATING UNDER ONE ROOF
The property management and estate agency arm of F Le Gallais and Sons has been sold to Maillard & Co meaning two of the Island’s oldest firms in the sector will operate under one roof. The sale is part of a longer-term strategy by Le Gallais to concentrate on growing areas of the business, which […]