| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Penny |
Land EnclosureJust been reading up about this over the centuries, very interesting stuff. We should start a reversal of land enclosure!Where we live is on a huge estate owned by one family who enclosed it in the 17th Century, Shall we just declare UDI and tell them they don't own it anymore 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure |
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| gil |
Hope what you've been reading mentioned the Diggers and the Levellers
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| Jamanda |
I've got Billy Bragg stuck in my head now. | ||||
| gil |
Would it help any if I mentioned runrig ? 
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| Rob R |
You could always move to Laxton
It would certainly cause DEFRA some grief
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| vegplot |
Re: Land Enclosure
We want our common land back! |
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| Jamanda |
We've still got ours
http://www.torringtoncommon.co.uk/index.htm I'm one of the conservators and there are some pics of mine in a folder called MH.[/url] |
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| Penny |
The peasants are revolting
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| Jamanda |
And we've got the Tshirts to prove it
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| gil |
So if you don't graze the commons, Jamanda, how do you manage the land to stop it reverting to scrub/wood ? |
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| Jamanda |
It is reverting in a number of places. The parts which can be are mown. It was grazed up until F&M, but not since. It's a shame, but as it is entirely open and a busyish road runs through it it isn't really practical. I think the farmer would set up his own electric fences and drive the stock home at night when it was grazed.
If someone wanted to, in theory we could still give them permission, but I can't see anyone wanting to 
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| vegplot |
The National trust took my father to court years ago. He wanted to maintain a claim on grazing animals on Selborne Common (a rather nice beech clad woodland with pasture on the North Downs) but they didn't. They failed to get an injunction thankfully. | ||||
| Gavin Bl |
are we going back to open field system?
and who will be the lord of the manor? (me! me!) |
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| cab |
Are there any horsey people around your way who might like the chance to do so? Such people seem happier with moving electric fences about than most others. |
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| mochyn |
You noble diggers all, stand up now, stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now the wasteland to maintain. |
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| Rob R |
teenage wasteland? |
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| mochyn |
Luggage. |