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Features

WL Sustainable Food Series: Fairer fruit & Veg

As part of our ongoing series, seeking to help people join the dots between producers & their plate, Steph Wetherell explores the best ways to get better fruit & veg

Sustainable Food Series Eating and drinking Health

News

The mucky business of intensive farming

The corporates behind intensive poultry and pig farms are profiting from pollution

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Farming

News

Is regen certification the new holy grail for farmers?

With the rise in regenerative brands, Megan Tatum explores the need for robust certification that will deter the industry's biggest green-washers

Regenerative farming

Features

Does organic food have a perceived class problem?

Organic is a knotty subject – where cost, status, and sustainability are tied up together. Matt Chittock unpicks the arguments.

Eating and drinking Organics

Features

Is cider the ultimate, eco-friendly tipple?

A new wave of small-scale cider producers is coming to the rescue of our diminishing, national orchards

Agroforestry Environment and ethics Farming

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.

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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

Features

WL Sustainable Food Series: Fairer fruit & Veg

Sustainable Food Series Eating and drinking Health

News

Hope for a peat-free future

Agroecology Environment and ethics Farming

Features

Ripple Effect: Observations from a visiting organic farmer

Agroecology Climate change Farming News from the farm

STORY OF THE WEEK

There is growing evidence that the dairy produced by cows fed on a 100% pasture diet has lower levels of saturated fat, higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, and a greater amount of vitamins and minerals than grain-fed dairy. Steph Wetherell, Wicked Leeks

Features

WL Sustainable Food Series: The deal with dairy

Sustainable Food Series Dairy Eating and drinking Farming

News

Is regen certification the new holy grail for farmers?

Regenerative farming

Opinion

News from the farm: Soil nerdery & compost evangelism

Farming Guy Singh-Watson

News

The mucky business of intensive farming

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Farming

Opinion

Reconnecting the broken food system, at Apricot Centre

Agroecology Community News from the farm

WL Meets

WL Meets: World Food Prize winner, Dr Geoff Hawtin

Climate change Environment and ethics Diversity

Features

Does organic food have a perceived class problem?

Eating and drinking Organics

News

News from the farm: More veg, less ultra processed food

Eating and drinking Health Plant-based

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