Sophie Mott
@sophiemott93.bsky.social
Nature, farming, and climate enthusiast 🐝🚜🌎
16 Elephant, 7 Small Elephant, a Privet, and a Lime... last night was the night of the Hawk moths 😍
June 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
16 Elephant, 7 Small Elephant, a Privet, and a Lime... last night was the night of the Hawk moths 😍
Pov: you work on a nature friendly farm and open it up to the public for an intensely awesome day 💖 #openfarmsunday
June 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Pov: you work on a nature friendly farm and open it up to the public for an intensely awesome day 💖 #openfarmsunday
Spring be springing 💙🌞
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Spring be springing 💙🌞
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Ruth Ashton-Shaw farms in Dumfries & Galloway 🌿
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
March 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Ruth Ashton-Shaw farms in Dumfries & Galloway 🌿
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
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With Asulox withdrawn, the need for alternative bracken control is urgent. The Hutton Institute is leading a project to explore sustainable solutions—your insights are key! 🌿
📢 Farmers, land managers & more—have your say!
📝 Take the 10-15 min survey: 🔗forms.office.com/pag...
#NFFN
📢 Farmers, land managers & more—have your say!
📝 Take the 10-15 min survey: 🔗forms.office.com/pag...
#NFFN
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
With Asulox withdrawn, the need for alternative bracken control is urgent. The Hutton Institute is leading a project to explore sustainable solutions—your insights are key! 🌿
📢 Farmers, land managers & more—have your say!
📝 Take the 10-15 min survey: 🔗forms.office.com/pag...
#NFFN
📢 Farmers, land managers & more—have your say!
📝 Take the 10-15 min survey: 🔗forms.office.com/pag...
#NFFN
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Do you think butterflies are beautiful? You can help researchers at the University of Florence understand why by taking this online quiz. It only takes a few minutes. Thanks in advance www.unveiling.eu/en_US/
Unveiling - Home
www.unveiling.eu
February 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Do you think butterflies are beautiful? You can help researchers at the University of Florence understand why by taking this online quiz. It only takes a few minutes. Thanks in advance www.unveiling.eu/en_US/
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📢IPMNET Bulletins on @FarmPep
farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Spring is approaching, are IPM plans ready?
👉Catch up on Science and Practice videos
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👉Take a look at the IPMWORKS training
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
👉Update your plan ipmtool.net
farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Spring is approaching, are IPM plans ready?
👉Catch up on Science and Practice videos
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👉Take a look at the IPMWORKS training
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
👉Update your plan ipmtool.net
Integrated Pest Management: Science & Practice - a video series about disease control in cereal crops - YouTube
This video series offers a detailed overview of disease control methods in cereal crops using Integrated Pest Management techniques. This series is funded by...
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
📢IPMNET Bulletins on @FarmPep
farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Spring is approaching, are IPM plans ready?
👉Catch up on Science and Practice videos
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👉Take a look at the IPMWORKS training
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
👉Update your plan ipmtool.net
farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Spring is approaching, are IPM plans ready?
👉Catch up on Science and Practice videos
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👉Take a look at the IPMWORKS training
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
👉Update your plan ipmtool.net
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Thanks to the Cambridge conservation volunteers and our @rspb.bsky.social hope farm volunteers who helped to restore this line of hedge yesterday
Amazing what a hard working team can achieve in 29 seconds!
@favcolourgreen.bsky.social
Amazing what a hard working team can achieve in 29 seconds!
@favcolourgreen.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thanks to the Cambridge conservation volunteers and our @rspb.bsky.social hope farm volunteers who helped to restore this line of hedge yesterday
Amazing what a hard working team can achieve in 29 seconds!
@favcolourgreen.bsky.social
Amazing what a hard working team can achieve in 29 seconds!
@favcolourgreen.bsky.social
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The government’s outdated rhetoric is pitting nature against the economy, but the truth is they go hand in hand.
Our CEO sets the record straight. 👇
Our CEO sets the record straight. 👇
February 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The government’s outdated rhetoric is pitting nature against the economy, but the truth is they go hand in hand.
Our CEO sets the record straight. 👇
Our CEO sets the record straight. 👇
Day 556 million, or who knows because I've lost count at this point, of cabin fever offset in the very best way. Watching the birds 💛
January 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Day 556 million, or who knows because I've lost count at this point, of cabin fever offset in the very best way. Watching the birds 💛
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THREAD🌾Defra latest announcement claims they have injected £343M into UK Farming last week, are working on a 25 year roadmap and are relaunching Higher tier in 2025🌾BUT whats behind the headlines - lets get into it 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/n...
Rural boost: Government injects nearly £350 million into farming in boost to Britain’s food security
Government injects £343 million of funding into the rural economy last week, benefiting more than 31,000 farmers.
www.gov.uk
December 11, 2024 at 10:00 AM
THREAD🌾Defra latest announcement claims they have injected £343M into UK Farming last week, are working on a 25 year roadmap and are relaunching Higher tier in 2025🌾BUT whats behind the headlines - lets get into it 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
December 12, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
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Thread: The UK's biggest green groups join force to write to Defra SoS Steve Reed calling for a fairer, nature friendly future for farming 🌍🌾 www.wcl.org.uk/docs/farming... @rspb.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @wwf.org.uk @nationaltrust.bsky.social
www.wcl.org.uk
December 9, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Thread: The UK's biggest green groups join force to write to Defra SoS Steve Reed calling for a fairer, nature friendly future for farming 🌍🌾 www.wcl.org.uk/docs/farming... @rspb.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @wwf.org.uk @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Day 26 cabin fever (yesterday) offset by a trip to see some tree sparrows and ducks at Welney with a lovely friend who takes me out in Storms so I don't die of boredom @duerden.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Day 26 cabin fever (yesterday) offset by a trip to see some tree sparrows and ducks at Welney with a lovely friend who takes me out in Storms so I don't die of boredom @duerden.bsky.social
Day 17 cabin fever offset by being back on my most favourite, most familiar farmland. Unable to crop walk or look at things how I normally would but watching the birds flocking up was good enough for now
November 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Day 17 cabin fever offset by being back on my most favourite, most familiar farmland. Unable to crop walk or look at things how I normally would but watching the birds flocking up was good enough for now
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Hello, I'm a Turtle Dove - and I need your help. 👇
(1/4)
(1/4)
November 28, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Hello, I'm a Turtle Dove - and I need your help. 👇
(1/4)
(1/4)
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As part of the Ag Zero+ programme, we are reaching out to farmers to find out what the barriers and enablers are to them adopting net-zero farming practices. The online survey will help us to understand what support is needed.
Take part here: agzeroplus.org.uk/farmersurvey...
#farming #NetZero
Take part here: agzeroplus.org.uk/farmersurvey...
#farming #NetZero
November 27, 2024 at 1:45 PM
As part of the Ag Zero+ programme, we are reaching out to farmers to find out what the barriers and enablers are to them adopting net-zero farming practices. The online survey will help us to understand what support is needed.
Take part here: agzeroplus.org.uk/farmersurvey...
#farming #NetZero
Take part here: agzeroplus.org.uk/farmersurvey...
#farming #NetZero
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From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "The trial of the additive, called Bovaer, will take place on around 30 of Arla’s farms across the UK and will provide data on how the innovation works in real life, at scale."
www.edie.net/supermarkets...
www.edie.net/supermarkets...
Supermarkets partner with Arla to test methane-busting feed additive for dairy cows - edie
Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi have partnered with dairy company Arla Foods to trial a new feed additive which should reduce methane emissions from cows.
www.edie.net
November 27, 2024 at 2:43 PM
From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "The trial of the additive, called Bovaer, will take place on around 30 of Arla’s farms across the UK and will provide data on how the innovation works in real life, at scale."
www.edie.net/supermarkets...
www.edie.net/supermarkets...
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The Scottish Government biodiversity strategy and delivery plan, published today, is an important part of addressing nature’s decline in Scotland.
It is welcome that the Scottish Government is acting, but how this strategy is funded and delivered will determine whether it helps restore nature.
It is welcome that the Scottish Government is acting, but how this strategy is funded and delivered will determine whether it helps restore nature.
November 27, 2024 at 2:52 PM
The Scottish Government biodiversity strategy and delivery plan, published today, is an important part of addressing nature’s decline in Scotland.
It is welcome that the Scottish Government is acting, but how this strategy is funded and delivered will determine whether it helps restore nature.
It is welcome that the Scottish Government is acting, but how this strategy is funded and delivered will determine whether it helps restore nature.
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The capital grants scheme, opened by UK government to allow England's farmers to invest in infrastructure such as slurry storage to stop animal poo going into rivers, has been abruptly paused
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environmental grants promised to farmers in England frozen
Scheme to fund activities such as hedge-planting paused owing to budget constraints, sources say
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:57 AM
The capital grants scheme, opened by UK government to allow England's farmers to invest in infrastructure such as slurry storage to stop animal poo going into rivers, has been abruptly paused
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Definitely worth a read.
My family has grown Britain’s food for 140 years. Here’s what politicians don’t understand about farming | Clare Wise
My family has grown Britain’s food for 140 years. Here’s what politicians don’t understand about farming | Clare Wise
We’ve cared for our farm through war, pandemic and money worries. The inheritance tax row shows how little the government respects that
* Clare Wise is a farmer based in County Durham
If you are familiar with the pangs of parental guilt, then you…
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Definitely worth a read.
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🌿 Thread: DEFRA confirms ‘mirror’ agreements to avoid gaps in environmental rewards, but why is this even necessary? Let’s unpack the history and urgency of reforming Higher Tier environmental schemes. 👇
November 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM
🌿 Thread: DEFRA confirms ‘mirror’ agreements to avoid gaps in environmental rewards, but why is this even necessary? Let’s unpack the history and urgency of reforming Higher Tier environmental schemes. 👇
Day 14 of cabin fever offset by a trip to the hospital in blue skies, sunshine, and a field of a few hundred lapwing in the fens
November 25, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Day 14 of cabin fever offset by a trip to the hospital in blue skies, sunshine, and a field of a few hundred lapwing in the fens
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#COP29 has failed to deliver.❌
Trust is broken as leaders leave glaring gaps in finance and ambition—putting people, planet, and the world’s poorest at risk.
We’ll keep fighting.
The climate and nature crisis can’t wait another year.
Trust is broken as leaders leave glaring gaps in finance and ambition—putting people, planet, and the world’s poorest at risk.
We’ll keep fighting.
The climate and nature crisis can’t wait another year.
November 24, 2024 at 8:54 AM
#COP29 has failed to deliver.❌
Trust is broken as leaders leave glaring gaps in finance and ambition—putting people, planet, and the world’s poorest at risk.
We’ll keep fighting.
The climate and nature crisis can’t wait another year.
Trust is broken as leaders leave glaring gaps in finance and ambition—putting people, planet, and the world’s poorest at risk.
We’ll keep fighting.
The climate and nature crisis can’t wait another year.
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People: “Insects are scary and gross.”
Rosy maple moth: 🥺
Rosy maple moth: 🥺
November 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
People: “Insects are scary and gross.”
Rosy maple moth: 🥺
Rosy maple moth: 🥺