Talking to the Bowler Hat Farmer - 30th April 2024: Part 3 - Permaculture, GMO's and Heritage Seeds

I first spoke to Mark Byford on the 9th April, but thanks to my amazing ability to mess things up, it did not quite go according to plan. This was our second conversation with each other.
In this part Mark spoke about permaculture, food storage, buying up of farmland, GMO's and growing your own food.

Mark Byford, the Bowler Hat farmer, can be found on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/@Thebowlerhatfarmer

"The Bowlerhat Farmer - CONNECTING YOU WITH REAL FOOD PRODUCERS in the UK and Ireland WE NEED THIS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQYmwZz6OA

The Sustainable Directory:
https://sustainabledirectory.co.uk/

Big Barn local food map:
https://www.bigbarn.co.uk/local-food-map/

https://openfoodnetwork.net/

https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/

"The People’s Food and Farming Alliance champions food sovereignty and security, for The People, by The People."
https://the-pffa.org/

On Permaculture:
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/what-is-permaculture/

https://naturespath.com/blogs/posts/what-is-permaculture

Seeds:
https://www.realseeds.co.uk/

https://www.sowseeds.co.uk/collections/heritage-seeds

Just in case you thought the 'you will eat the insects' was a conspiracy theory:
"Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/5 of 3 January 2023 authorising the placing on the market of Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (Text with EEA relevance)"
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0005

The UK government on geo-engineering:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5eb13050e90e0723bad30a11/geoengineering-position-statement.pdf

"Geoengineering, the large-scale manipulation of a specific process central to controlling Earth’s climate for the purpose of obtaining a specific benefit."
https://www.britannica.com/science/geoengineering