- Fashion & beauty
How to find sustainable swimwear
As more people are considering buying ‘less and better’ with clothes, what should you consider when it comes to buying summer holiday swimwear?
By Becky Blench - 12th August 2020
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- Recipes
- Eating & drinking
How to host the best veggie BBQ
From flavour-packed French summer classics, seasonal stars and fire-blistered favourites - try these top five vegetarian BBQ recipes and make veg the star of the show.
By Emily Muddeman - 11th August 2020
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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 Blench - 28th July 2020
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- Veg Hacks
- Recipes
Veg Hacks: Padron pepper roulette
Padron peppers are like a game of Russian roulette. Chef James shows how to cook them the classic way in this week's Veg Hack, by blistering them in olive oil and finishing with sea salt.
By James Evans - 28th July 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Five best summer picnic recipes
Whether you are enjoying time in your garden or out in the park, make an everyday lunch special and give yourself that real holiday feeling with these delicious summer picnic recipes.
By Becky Blench - 23rd July 2020
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Five seasonal recipes for August
As the heat of the summer lingers, at Riverford, we’re making the most of our seasonal veg and the peak of what we call the 'summer flush' in the veg calendar.
By Kirsty Hale - 22nd July 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Five best summer desserts
Make the most of seasonal summer fruit with honeycomb melon, balsamic BBQ strawberries or serve up summer on a plate with a glorious pavlova.
By Becky Blench - 16th July 2020
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- Recipes
- Eating & drinking
Top five seasonal recipes for June
June is the start of the 'Veg New Year', and the fields are suddenly bountiful with all sorts of greenery and vibrant veg; new potatoes, spinach, British asparagus, broad beans and more.
By Kirsty Hale - 17th June 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
How to make ice cream with summer fruit
Chill out on hot days with these easy recipes for homemade ice cream made from raspberries, watermelon, basil and other seasonal stars.
By Becky Blench - 15th June 2020
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Latest articles
- Diversity
- Environment & ethics
Wanted: Female leaders
For International Women’s Day, social advocate and environmentalist Jennie Stephens tells Anna Turns why diverse leadership can unlock social and climate justice.
By Anna Turns - 7th March 2021
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
UK banks linked to deforestation, report finds
Barclays, HSBC and NatWest are among UK banks found to be linked to deforestation in Brazil as spotlight on unethical finance grows.
By Jack Thompson - 4th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Technology
Best apps to help you cut food waste
From community food sharing or family meal planning to buying a ‘Magic Bag’ of leftover food from your favourite café – read our round-up of the best food waste apps and resources.
By Becky Blench - 4th March 2021
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- News from the farm
- Ethical business
'When we whistle, you jump'
As we became employee owned and I renounced control, protection of suppliers was written into our founding documents; last month, this was crystalised into a new Supplier Charter.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 4th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Climate change
Confessions of a kitchen bin
Environmental journalist Anna Turns weighed her household waste after a week before setting a mission to reduce it with the help of tips and tricks from food waste experts.
By Anna Turns - 2nd March 2021
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- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Environment & ethics
Caterpillars and tackling the biodiversity crisis
A caterpillar spotted while gleaning a field for leftover crops sparked a conversation around the connection between species, writes Chantelle Norton.
By Chantelle Norton - 2nd March 2021
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