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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Are you coming to the Cambridgeshire Biodiversity & Regenerative Food Festival 2026? There's going to be a collection of regenerative & organic growers, bakers, makers, street food vendors, crafters, charities and more – free entry. We will be there with some of the Six Inches of Soil's film team!
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The proofs for 'The Welfare of Wildlife' are in. Publication by @5mbooks.bsky.social expected early '27. @ruthtingay.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @garethenticott.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
First of a three-part interview blog series with Uffe Elbæk unbreaking.eco/uffe-elbaek-... @compassoffice.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @kateford.bsky.social @5mbooks.bsky.social @greenlibdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @labouruk.bsky.social @indraadnan.bsky.social @kaospilot.bsky.social
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
All set up at #Rootstock
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We are proud to support the @publishersassoc.bsky.social Publishing Inclusion Pledge to help create a more inclusive and equitable #publishing industry. More information here 👉https://www.publishers.org.uk/news/
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
1st draft of the book I've been editing submitted: 'The Welfare of Wildlife'. Both milestone & anticlimax. Looking forward to publication in late 2026. @zoophilosophy.bsky.social @walterveit.bsky.social @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social @markjonesvet.bsky.social @vassilipapa.bsky.social @5mbooks.bsky.social
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Review of The Profitable Farm by Colin Tudge in Nov/Dec Resurgence & Ecologist. ‘Everyone with a stake in farming should read this book … that means all of us since our lives depend on it’ www.resurgence.org/magazine/art... 5mbooks.com/product/prof...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Looking forward to taking Kalle Lasn's Manifesto for World Revolution to the Anarchist Book Fair London this Saturday. See you there. @adbusters.bsky.social @anarchistbookfairs.bsky.social
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A few photos from yesterday’s launch of Wild Cattle of Chillingham. General release 30 September. 5mbooks.com?s=Chillingha...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
At the #agroforestryshow for launch of 2nd edition of @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Agroforestry Handbook edited by @benraskin.bsky.social which we’re delighted to be distributing. Presale at the show. General release 30 September. 5mbooks.com?s=Agroforest...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The Farmers Club on 23 October will be discussing Applied Equine Psychology with authors Sharon Smith and Dr Marie-Louise Holmes. The event is open to non-members and includes a talk and Q&A with Sharon Smith and Marie-Louise Holmes, a drinks reception and dinner with wine. lnkd.in/eC4axKQ4
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Wild Cattle of Chillingham: The Natural History of an Ancient Breed by Professor Stephen Hall. 🎉 To celebrate, join us at Chillingham Castle on 13th Sept. Please share in your networks. lnkd.in/edCB5b8c @nffn.bsky.social @ciwf.org.uk
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
These 📚 have been occupying us recently. Two aside, they have something in common – the authors were guests on podcasts we love: @natehagens.bsky.social Great Simplification, www.thegreatsimplification.com, and Oliver Goshey’s Regenerative Skills, regenerativeskills.com.
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
NEW PUBLICATION - REGENERATIVE MEDICINE IN SMALL ANIMAL MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS by Russell Chandler A practical guide for vets aiming to instruct practitioners on how to use regenerative practices in the veterinary clinic. For more details 👇 5mbooks.com/product/rege...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"You can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will always return" Chris Clark's opinion on @farmersguardian.bsky.social. Read the full article at the link below 👇 www.farmersguardian.com/4414753
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Farming Matters:
This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Chris Clark, first generation Yorkshire upland farmer and author
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Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com · 03/07/2025
Great to hear from @cla.co.uk on the plans for a generative #AI training licensing for publishers. IPG members can learn more about this at a free online webinar on 22 July, click here for more details 👉 www.independentpublishersguild.com/SharedConten... #booksky #publishing
Image shows James Bennett from the Copyright Licensing Agency giving his presentation on the collective licensing of AI in 2025 at the Publishers’ Licensing Services conference 2025.
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🌞 Headed to #Groundswell25 next week? We're part of three thought-provoking sessions to explore solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing food and farming today. Here's where you can find us... Explore the full programme here 👉 groundswellag.com/sessions/
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Agricology @agricology.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🎪Join us at #Groundswell25 – Agricology sessions at The Study 🐝 1️⃣ Dung beetles, cattle & trees: allies in resilient farming 🌳🐄🪲 📍Wed 11:15 - 11:45am @rothamsted.bsky.social #regenerativefarming
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Agricology @agricology.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🎪Join us at #Groundswell25 – Agricology sessions at The Study 🐝 2️⃣ Regenerative Stacking - combining #regenerative practices for healthy, profitable land 🌾 📍Wed 1:15 - 1:45pm #RegenAg #FarmingfortheFuture #SoilHealth
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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎪 Join us at #Groundswell25 tomorrow for an illuminating session about the awesome power of beans! It features an expert panel including: Sheila Dillon, @henrydimbleby.bsky.social, Amelia Christie-Miller, Andrew Howard, and Josiah Meldrum. Get your tickets: tinyurl.com/4jnpbbza
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Going to Groundswell? 📕 Chris Clark will be signing copies of The Profitable Farm - lnkd.in/ebicxXVD 📗 David Finlay of The Erhical Dairy be doing likewise with copies of A Dairy Story - lnkd.in/e5GEq5Kd 📅 Both at noon, on 3 July at the book stand. #groundswell25
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The Farmers Club Book Club on 22 July will be discussing The Profitable Farm with authors Chris Clark and Brian Scanlon.  The event is open to non-members and includes a talk and Q&A with Chris and Brian, a drinks reception and dinner with wine. www.thefarmersclub.com/events#MEMBE...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Last Wednesday, we attended the The Guild of Food Writers Awards at The Royal Institution to find out if the Six Inches of Soil 📕 had won the Investigative Food Writing Award. Alas we did not but as one of just 3 shortlisted We’re chuffed to bits still.
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Come find us at Carbon Calling 2025.
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Glad to be sponsoring Carbon Calling again this year. Cracking line up over 3 days. www.carboncalling.farm/conference-c... We'll be up there too with a few books. @cprecountryside.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social
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Agroecology Map @agroecologymap.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
‪🌱 Agroecology Map is a Free Software & Open Data 🌍 platform to map agroecological initiatives. Anyone can use, share & improve it! Built for transparency & collaboration 🤝 #Agroecology #OpenData #FreeSoftware #FoodSovereignty #Agroecologia #Agroforestry 🔗 agroecologymap.org/who_we_are
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Agroecology Coalition @agroecology.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
OPEN WEBINAR: Participatory Foresight for Sustainable Agrifood Systems through Agroecology 🌎 📅 3 July 2025 🕐 13:00 – 15:00 CET 💻 Register now 👉 fao.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #agroecology #foodsystems
Open webinar: Participatory Foresight for Sustainable Agrifood Systems through Agroecology
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Slow Food @slowfoodhq.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🌍 Want to meet farmers, chefs & food changemakers from across Europe? #TerraMadreEurope is happening June 22–24 in Brussels, a unique gathering of the European #SlowFood network to share ideas, build alliances & shape the future of food. #Agroecology Join us 👉 bit.ly/3ZEBzwS (3/3)
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Terra Madre Europe - Slow Food
Terra Madre Europe - Good, Clean and Fair Food for All
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Sustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📢 Positive news: @foodgov.bsky.social recommends retaining the Small Abattoir Discount - a lifeline for local food, animal welfare & rural economies. But pressure remains: 40% still face closure without support @thesoilassociation.bsky.social sustainablefoodtrust.org/press-releas...
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FSA recommends retaining the Small Abattoir Discount | Sustainable Food Trust
The future of the 47 remaining small abattoirs in England and Wales appears more secure following a significant decision by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board to recommend the retention of the Smal...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Many thanks to HortWeek for their review of The Profitable Farm! www.hortweek.com/book-review-...
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Book review: The Profitable Farm
Book review: The Profitable Farm - from HortWeek
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🤞 Big day today! We find out if we have won The Guild of Food Writers award for our Six Inches of Soil book. 🤞 @5mbooks.bsky.social @nffn.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @sustainablesoils.bsky.social @sustainweb.org @susfoodtrust.bsky.social @realfarmed.bsky.social
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Farmers Club Book Club on 22 July will be discussing The Profitable Farm with authors Chris Clark and Brian Scanlon.  The event is open to non-members and includes a talk and Q&A with Chris and Brian, a drinks reception and dinner with wine. www.thefarmersclub.com/events#MEMBE...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
World bee day 🐝🐝🐝. Tried and mostly failed to capture the thrumming of the bird of bees in the laburnum outside our offices. @bbka.org.uk
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Extract of Kalle Lasn's Manifesto for World Revolution available on Resilience.org www.resilience.org/stories/2025... @adbusters.bsky.social @5mbooks.bsky.social @postcarbon.org
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Manifesto for World Revolution: Excerpt
After centuries of rule by kings, emperors, tyrants, mad men, fascists, communists, military dictatorships and mega-corporations, We the People of the world are now ready to take charge of our own des...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Honoured that our Six Inches of Soil has been shortlisted for the The Guild of Food Writers Investigative Food Writer Award www.gfw.co.uk/2025/guild-o... #thegfw2025 @5mbooks.bsky.social @ipghq.bsky.social @publishersassoc.bsky.social @ipgbook.bsky.social @booksource.bsky.social
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Delighted to sponsor the 2025 GFC conference and bring a selection of our books. Grab a ticket while you still can. www.greenfarmcollective.com/event-detail... @no1farmerjake.bsky.social @angusgowthorpe.bsky.social
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Registrations are now open on the AWSELFA website for their Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) event happening in July! Sign ups will close on the 4th July. More information at the link below 👇👇👇 awselfa.org/conference/a... #animalwelfare #animalhealth #planthealth
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The Animal and Plant Health Agency: Animal Welfare Work | AWSELFA
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Catch Chris at the Devon County Show on Thursday 15 May. Thursday will be a month to the day that we published Chris & Brian's The Profitable Farm: 5mbooks.com/product/prof...
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our World Veterinary Day sale ends tonight! Check our sale page for 50% off a range of books 📚 Please share with your colleagues and friends
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5m Books @5mbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
OUT NOW: ANIMAL LAW by Simon Brooman, Deborah Legge, Deborah Rook, Rachel Dunn An examination of the law relating to animals, in the UK and with consideration to European and international law, from the perspective of policy, society, philosophy, history and economics. 5mbooks.com/animal-law-c...
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Animal Law – Challenges and Themes - 5m Books
Learn more about this invaluable resource for animal law students and practitioners, as well as animal welfarists and ethicists.
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
‘When will it fall’ - tree sculpture by Beavers I feel this piece really has captured the essence of what the beaver was trying to achieve… @kneppwilding.bsky.social
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Agroecology Map @agroecologymap.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Increasing farmer’s digital agency for agroecology 👉 REGISTER HERE 📅 8 May, 2025 🕗 8:00 New York | 9:00 São Paulo 14:00 Rome | 15:00 Nairobi | 19:00 Hanoi 📍 Online via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #agroecology #agroécologie #permaculture #agroforestry #foodsovereignty #citizenscience
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Martin Lines @linesmartin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Really enjoyed joining Tom & Ed on the Defra Farming podcast. We talked through what IPM actually looks like on farm - building habitats, adapting the system, learning from trials, and working closely with your agronomist to cut inputs and back nature 🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1657363/epis...
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Tom Allen-Stevens, Martin Lines, Ed Schofield - How IPM works for us: a farmer and agronomist’s perspective - Defra Farming Podcast
Episode 16 – How IPM works for us: a farmer and agronomist’s perspectiveIn this episode of the Defra Farming Podcast, guest host Tom Allen-Stevens—an arable farmer in Oxfordshire and founder of the Br...
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Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience - CAWR @coventrycawr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
CAWR is offering a new funded studentship, Technologies of care: fostering nature-relatedness & environmental practice through social-technological innovation as part of the DAISY project. The position begins in Sept & the deadline is 27th May. See more: bit.ly/42ipDRN
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Last chance to sign-up for our webinar with @afnnetwork.bsky.social 🚨 Tomorrow at 10am, FFCC’s Mhairi Brown will be speaking to Jez Fredenburgh to give a first-look into findings from our final #TheFoodConversation report, due to be published later this month.
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Time to throw off ‘nanny state’ fears – what do UK citizens want from their food? - AFN Network+
For too long, government has been told that people don’t want things to change: “Nobody wants a nanny state, businesses only make what people want to buy, most people just want cheap food”…and so on. ...
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British Veterinary Association @britishvets.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Through our campaigning and lobbying, we’ve made huge strides. But there is still more work to do.” Nine years after the publication of BVA's landmark #AnimalWelfare strategy, our new report documents key wins and identifies six areas for future action. www.bva.co.uk/news-and-blo...
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BVA Animal Welfare Strategy: a decade of welfare wins, as new priorities unveiled | British Veterinary Association
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Important @landworkersuk.bsky.social event coming up in London on April 26. Unfortunately I am already committed elsewhere, but very best of luck! #FoodSovereignty and #FoodSecurity are crucial issues of our time landworkersalliance.org.uk/foodinourhan...
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Food In Our Hands 2025 - Landworkers Alliance
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Unbreaking @unbreaking-5mbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Out today: The Profitable Farm by Chris Clark and Brian Scanlon A pragmatic guide for farmers and other interested parties to maximum sustainable output (MSO) concepts, practices and applications Order 👉 5mbooks.com/product/prof...
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Garden Match Cards @gardenmatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden, please support this petition at change.org chng.it/LjHNpyzR5V
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Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden
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