Food sustainability is nothing without equality
For anyone voting with an interest in changing the way we produce and eat food, tackling inequality and poverty are not sideline issues.
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Ruminating on seaweed
Could feeding cows and sheep with additives like seaweed or garlic cut the livestock industry’s greenhouse gas emissions? David Jesudason finds out.
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How to cook the best turkey
A whole golden, succulent roast turkey: the classic Christmas centrepiece. Here are some simple tips for the perfect roast and sumptuous organic gravy, tried and tested by expert Riverford cooks.
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Ethical Christmas presents unwrapped
From plastic-free wins, to gifts for a more sustainable lifestyle – it's the Wicked Leeks Christmas gift guide.
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Apple grower to subsidise housing
A grower has donated land to a sustainable housing project to help workers onto housing ladder in area of ‘no affordable housing’.
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How I bought no food for a year
Sustainability adventurer Rob Greenfield spent the last year growing and foraging all of his food.
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Game of Thrones actor in factory farm stunt
Jerome Flynn has joined a campaign to highlight ‘horrific’ pig welfare in majority of high street retailers.
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The offsetting delusion
Carbon offsetting has been damned for greenwash but trees and renewables play a role in long-term carbon removal alongside cuts to direct emissions.
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Welcome to Wicked Leeks
Introducing the new online magazine for sustainable food and ethical business.
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Do consumers have a choice?
Guy's news...
Founder of Riverford Guy Singh-Watson writes a weekly column with news from the farm and more...
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Quarter of shoppers 'don't believe organic'
New survey has found a ‘deep suspicion’ of ethically-labelled food with over a quarter of shoppers saying they don't trust organic.
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- Climate change
- Farming
- Meat
Ruminating on seaweed
Could feeding cows and sheep with additives like seaweed or garlic cut the livestock industry’s greenhouse gas emissions? David Jesudason finds out.
By David Jesudason - 11th December 2019
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- News from the farm
- Organics
Not just for Christmas
You might think come Christmas day I’d be sick of sprouts but I love them – my cooking tip is to par boil, then fry them in butter and bacon with a bit of garlic, writes grower Jake Richardson.
By Jake Richardson - 11th December 2019
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
How to cook the best Christmas turkey
A whole golden, succulent roast turkey: the classic Christmas centrepiece. Here are some simple tips for the perfect roast and sumptuous organic gravy, tried and tested by expert Riverford cooks.
By Becky Marshall - 11th December 2019
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- Environment & ethics
- Price
- Politics
Food sustainability is nothing without equality
For anyone voting with an interest in changing the way we produce and eat food, tackling inequality and poverty are not sideline issues.
By Nina Pullman - 11th December 2019
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- Environment & ethics
- Organics
Quarter of shoppers ‘don't believe organic label’
New survey has found a ‘deep suspicion’ of ethically-labelled food with over a quarter of shoppers saying they do not trust labels such as organic or meat-free.
By Nina Pullman - 10th December 2019
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- Grow your own
- Environment & ethics
- Health
How I bought no food for a year
Sustainability adventurer Rob Greenfield has just completed a year spent growing and foraging for food - here's how and why he did it.
By Rob Greenfield - 9th December 2019
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- Environment & ethics
UK’s first land-based prawn farm opens
The farm is a step forward in sustainable production of one of the world’s most popular seafoods by reducing food miles and environmental contamination.
By Nina Pullman - 18th June 2019
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- Diversity
- Climate change
Judi Dench turns attention to rainforests
A new documentary with world-famous actor highlights the wealth of diversity and threats to the tropical island of Borneo with tickets available to a Q&A and premiere film screening.
By Nina Pullman - 30th May 2019
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Organic farming co-op up for national award
The South Devon Organic Producers, which supply much of the organic veg to Riverford, has been nominated for Inspiring Co-op of the Year voted for by the public.
By Nina Pullman - 30th May 2019
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- Meat
- Climate change
Soil Association faces ‘meat-free’ backlash
Organic certification has sparked criticism after proposals that schools should have one meat-free day to help tackle climate change as debate around meat and role of livestock gathers momentum.
By Nina Pullman - 22nd May 2019
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- Environment & ethics
Monsanto faces third glyphosate pay-out
Agrochemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay over $2bn to a Californian couple who used Roundup weedkiller before being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer.
By Nina Pullman - 14th May 2019
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- News from the farm
- Supply
‘Perfect’ pak choi leads start of UK season
Pak choi and asparagus have thrived in the warmer than usual spring as the British veg new year gets off to a plentiful start.
By Nina Pullman - 9th May 2019
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