Wicked Leeks issue 5 out now

Featuring a cover interview with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this issue explores the power of positive thinking, how to scale up sustainable farming and renewing the joy of food in 2021.

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Don't forget the veg in Veganuary

Vegan food needn't be complicated or reliant on expensive meat and dairy alternatives; there are so many incredible recipes that can be made with just plants in their purest form.

Best recipes for juicing

Juicing is the quickest, easiest, and tastiest way to increase fruit and veg intake. Here is our guide on how to make the best juices.

Roots to fruits: The demise of the greengrocer

In a new regular column, author of The Ethical Carnivore Louise Gray explores her roots in the greengrocer trade and the stories behind some of the most popular fruit and veg.

Through a new lens

Chef Gizzi Erskine tells Jack Thompson why her new book links recipes to regenerative farming, and why her life as TV personality is behind her.

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Local food 'could save the world'

Local food systems can increase biodiversity, cultivate social cohesion, create jobs, and even make us happier, conference hears.

Make your own marmalade

A calming January marmalade-making session is a good antidote to the mayhem of Christmas and New Year. Put the radio on, get peeling, slicing and simmering, and fill your house with the distinctive bittersweet aroma.

‘A melting pot of change-makers’

Wicked Leeks' reporters round up the highlights from the Oxford Real Farming Conference with speakers discussing indigenous and workers’ rights and routes to sustainable food.

How to cook through a third lockdown

Send homemade treats to distant friends, test out a new cuisine, or simply revert to comfort food – here are our cooking tips for lockdown three.

Neonics back on the menu

Emergency approval of previously-banned neonicotinoid pesticides to help sugar beet farmers has been described as a ‘backward step’.

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Plant-based recipes for gut health

Start the day with banana and blueberry pancakes, snack on healthy carrot cake bites and slow cook a delicious plant-powered stew with these new vegan recipes.

Use it or lose it

How one man’s mission is transforming Ecuador’s ancient food forests into live seed banks to help communities build food and climate resilience.

Ecological farming can feed UK if diets change

New report outlines how diets can support an ecological farming system in the UK to cut carbon, restore nature and preserve farming livelihoods.

Best January soup recipes

To mark World Soil Day, soil science legend Professor Rattan Lal speaks to Nick Easen about winning the World Food Prize 2020 and how farmers are the bridge between now and net zero.

Old friends and new treats

January's GYO column is all about choosing what to grow - a time of great excitement for any gardener and the chance to try new seed choices as well as old friends.