Wicked Leeks - Food, Farming, Fairness.

Food, Farming, Fairness.

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. 

Regenerative farming Health Soil Diets

Features

The Round Table: reimagining the rural economy

What does a thriving rural economy that benefits people and the planet look like in today's world? Dr Fatma Sabet talks to a cross-section of growers, artisans, farmers and community project leaders to find out

Business Environment and ethics Farming

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?

Business Cities Cost-of-living

Features

5 A Day: the minimum, not the gold standard

Dr Ann Ashworth PhD breaks down the UK’s recommendations, and shares promising research on the benefits of dietary nitrate from veg

Features

Fake Farms & Ugly Truths

We’re calling time on the imaginary agriculturalists whose smokescreens can be traced all the way back to the rainforests

Ethical business Farming Supermarkets

Opinion

Rights, ownership & wealth on Dartmoor… again

Community Environment and ethics Guy Singh-Watson

Features

Know your chickens: what the standards really stand for

Animal welfare Farming

Features

Weathering the storm: a year-round commitment to banana growers

Agroecology Climate change Ethical business Farming

STORY OF THE WEEK

1 in 5 people in the UK are prevented from using the public rights of way network due to mobility issues Amar Latif, president, the Ramblers

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