Land can 'help or hinder' climate crisis
New report from IPCC sets out the stark challenge around the world's land and how it can either improve resilience and store carbon, or face further and more critical degradation.
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Floating into the future
A new floating dairy farm in the Netherlands says it is taking pressure off farmland and producing food closer to cities.
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Wicked Leeks Ellis
Wicked Leeks' cartoonist with his take on sustainability, food politics, and anything in between.
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How to cook sweetcorn
How to have a week less wasted
Read these crowdfunded tips to use up food waste and leftovers and join FoodCycle’s August campaign encourages you to cut out waste for a week.
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Why I'm (sometimes) an angry vegan
Veganism comes from a place of compassion and a desire to make the world a better place, writes Riverford co-owner Jon Soellner.
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New environment minister announced
Michael Gove is replaced by Theresa Villiers as Defra minister in Boris Johnson's first cabinet as PM.
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A 'radical' roadmap to sustainable food
A major new report has outlined how food and farming can radically move away from producing and selling cheap food that degrades environment and causes ill health.
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Rebel for life
Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook talks to Nina Pullman about how to turn fear about the climate into action and why rebellion is sexual.
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Guy's news...
Founder of Riverford Guy Singh-Watson writes a weekly column with news from the farm and more...
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A culture of sustainability
A project teaching environmentalism through hip hop is proving that culture has a place in the sustainability debate.
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A template for positive change
Wicked Leeks hosts a panel debate on all things ethical business, with speakers from Riverford, Aardman Animations and Onion Collective.
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Fossil fuel expansion threatens climate
A new report has found that new fossil fuel energy projects means 1.5 degree warming target is impossible.
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Employee ownership one year on
Welcome to Wicked Leeks
Introducing the new online magazine for sustainable food and ethical business.
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Most shoppers ignore ethical issues
Only four per cent of people actually act on the ethical issues they claim to care about, a new survey has found.
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- Climate change
- Environment & ethics
Lifestyle changes won’t stop the climate emergency
Lifestyle changes are certainly welcome, but the scale of change required for us to avert ecological disaster can only be made by governments and fossil fuel multinationals, writes Tom McDonough.
By Tom McDonough - 16th August 2019
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- Eating & drinking
- Environment & ethics
Why we should spend more on food
Can we simply steal from the Italians? They see food as their identity, a friend and even a work of art, writes Joe Atkins.
By Joe Atkins - 15th August 2019
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- Farming
Extreme weather hits broccoli and caulis
Some growers in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have lost much of this year’s brassica crop after extreme rainfall causes flooding in fields.
By Nina Pullman - 15th August 2019
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Rain, wind and weeds
With the right conditions, it is possible to throw enough soil into the rows to bury emerging weeds without smothering the crop, achieving almost complete weed control without any hand work.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 15th August 2019
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Top five summer sweetcorn recipes
From July to early October is the season for fresh corn – deliciously sweet, golden like the sun and bursting with flavour. Read our favourite recipes and enjoy summer sweetcorn at its best.
By Becky Marshall - 12th August 2019
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- Plastic
- Environment & ethics
The real reason why McDonald’s straws matter
The only thing being recycled this summer is a story about how rubbish eco straws are, but why?, asks Lucy Siegle.
By Lucy Siegle - 9th August 2019
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Latest news
- News from the farm
Cauliflower harvest smashes records
Organic veg box company Riverford has harvested over 200,000 cauliflowers since the start of the year due to unexpected major glut.
By Nina Pullman - 21st March 2019
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- Farming
Vertical farming 'could improve diets'
Researchers are investigating the impact of rapidly upscaling vertical farming including whether growing fruit and veg in cities could help improve diets.
By Nina Pullman - 11th March 2019
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- Organics
Organic land rises for first time in 10 years
Steady growth in sales of organic food has started to create change in farming systems as consumers look for ethical diets and a wider sustainability solution.
By Nina Pullman - 4th March 2019
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- Ethical business
Fairtrade puts cocoa in the spotlight
Ethical trade label is raising awareness of cocoa farmers living on 75p a day as part of a two-week campaign including ice cream giveaways and retail pledges.
By Nina Pullman - 25th February 2019
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- Organics
- Flexitarianism
Organic farming ‘could feed growing population’
New study used modelling to show that pesticide-free farming could feed a growing population despite lower yields if diets are reorientated.
By Nina Pullman - 20th February 2019
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- Farming
Riverford ‘well-positioned’ for no-deal Brexit
Veg boxes will include more British produce than usual while European imports will travel via Roscoff to avoid delays at Calais.
By Nina Pullman - 19th February 2019
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