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Chloe Thompson
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PhD student interested in land use, environment, & decision making 🐏 Fleece flock sheep farmer in Mid Wales. She/her.

Dysgu Cymraeg
I spent a few days at Groundswell the other week (with both PhD and farming hats on), mostly listening and talking about trees! I have written a little about what I got out of it on the farm blog :)

#regenerativefarming #Groundswell2025

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Groundswell 2025
I spent a few days earlier in the week at Groundswell, a regenerative agriculture festival.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Chloe Thompson
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

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Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live
‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM
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April 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's Earth Day today! I've written a little bit on the farm blog about what that means for me.

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Earth Day 2025
I’ve been thinking carefully about what to write for this. Whilst I help Mum on the farm, in my day job I’m an environmental social scientist. In many ways, the climate crisis is a constant in my d…
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April 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A lovely Welsh Mountain ewe I met near the summit of Tarrenhendre is British Wools sheep of the week over on instagram - so I thought she'd earnt a spot here too. #sheep #defaid
April 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As winter continues we've been busy doing our best to prevent foot rot in the sheep. I've written a little about what we've been doing and why here: sweetpeasandsheep.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/s...
Sheep hoof health
Staying on top of problems with sheep hooves on the farm has been hard work, but having learnt from experiences with footrot and CODD our current routine is working well.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM