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The 50-year trend towards vast scale and narrow specialization in farming has had tragic costs; socially, environmentally, and for animal welfare. We need a different model – but is there an economically viable alternative?
Cooking skills have been nudged out, in favour of the ability to babysit an increasingly deskilled (and therefore lower wage) brigade of chefs, who reheat food rather than cook it.
Riverford's planning team are finishing off the crop plan that will fill our veg boxes from May 2024 to May 2025.
There is a rational argument that concentrating farming on fewer, more intensively farmed acres releases the rest of the land for rewilding and carbon sequestration.
Today's students of regenerative farming are a far cry from the conservative, Barbour-and-tweed agricultural students of my youth.
Issue 12: Fairness and five years.
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