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Food, Farming, Fairness.

News

Budget 2024: what’s the future for farmers?

A controversial clampdown on inheritance tax and land ownership has many farmers up in arms. Wicked Leeks takes a closer look at the bigger picture.

Features

Regen chicken, plucky producers & fresh ideas

Industrial chicken has huge ecological, ethical and social costs, but there are a growing number of farmers trying to develop a better approach.

Environment and ethics Farming

News

The UPF giants: staggering emissions & shady omissions

Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too

Ethical business Health

News

The Declining Butterfly Effect

Sustainable food + farming advocate, Will White, joins the dots between our food systems & the plight of our natural pollinators

Climate change Diversity Environment and ethics Nature

News

The Great British Fake Off

Behind the supermarkets’ bucolic branding lies a web of deceit so damaging that it’s bringing British farming to its knees

Ethical business Farming Supermarkets

Features

All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts

Mobile food projects are making nutritious, sustainable food more accessible to food-insecure communities.

Community

Opinion

Farmers Against Farmwashing

A new campaign asks the supermarkets to show some integrity and start offering real support for real British farms

Farming Guy Singh-Watson

Opinion

Veg & Table: stories to support and savour

Guy Singh-Watson introduces a new magazine from Riverford, dedicated to helping you live life on the veg in more tangible, empowering & joyful ways

Growers and suppliers Guy Singh-Watson Seasonality

Features

Know your chickens: what the standards really stand for

Red tractor, freedom food, RSPCA-assured? Who to trust for a better bird.

Animal welfare Farming

Lifestyle

What did your food have for dinner?

Is the health of the soil and animals linked to our own? Jack Thompson explores the science behind this emerging field. 

Diets Health Regenerative farming Soil

News

Fruit & veg deserts & the death knell of the local greengrocer

Two thirds of the UK's independent fruit & veg shops have 'shut up shop', in the last 30 years. But is there a way back?

Cost-of-living Business Cities

News

Budget 2024: what’s the future for farmers?

Features

Regen chicken, plucky producers & fresh ideas

Environment and ethics Farming

Features

We need to talk about the broken food system

Social justice Cost-of-living Health

STORY OF THE WEEK

There has been this narrative from UK governments that they should not intervene or set high standards for what the public eats. Yet, we know from our dialogues with the British public that this is not what they want. Mhairi Brown, Head of Food Futures, FFCC

Opinion

Noticing nature with Gill Meller

Nature

Opinion

News from the farm: Forgive me the nostalgia

Farming Guy Singh-Watson Organics

Opinion

WL op-ed: Philip Lymbery, Compassion in World Farming

Climate change Biodiversity Environment and ethics Farming

Opinion

News from the farm: Crop planning

Community Farming Guy Singh-Watson

News

The Declining Butterfly Effect

Climate change Diversity Environment and ethics Nature

Features

How to bake your lawn (and eat it)

Activism Community Grow your own

Opinion

News from the farm: As the first frost beckons, time is up

Farming Guy Singh-Watson

Features

All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts

Community

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