Hipennine Wrote:
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> "In general though, I won't change my custom of
> offering my fruit peelings to the Earth"
>
> Not good in the Southern Uplands Ross; sheep are
> stupid and eat anything, but they have a problem
> digesting orange and banana peel, and it can be
> fatal ! Far better to put it in your compost heap
> where the bugs and worms break it down in the
> warmth.
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I'd agree with that Ken. My skins or cores will never get left where farmed animals graze and never just dumped in the open. Usually they're tucked into some bracken or in the undergrowth along a forestry plantation ride where the only thing that'll find them is a slug or eventually, an earthworm.
I think the difference between the areas around where I live and those 'managed' by the JMT (and indeed much of the Highlands) is that you can mosey through the Moffat Hills for 20 miles and almost always not see another human being. The Highland Munros though are getting much like the English Lake District fells where people are queueing to pass each other on made paths, politely nodding but seething inside about the intrusion of others into their artificial idyll.
I'm glad few of my local tops exceed 2,750 and we've nothing over 3,000 as it means I don't ever have to share them nor worry about my peelings offending fellow hill users.