- 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
- News from the farm
- Ethical business
Can B Corp make business better?
We see the most vital benefit as not marking our own homework; regular assessment will highlight areas for improvement, and help us balance competing demands.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 21st September 2020
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- Biodiversity
- Environment & ethics
Campaigners gear up to protect nature
The National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts have both issued new calls to protect and restore nature via conservation efforts and designated ‘wild belt’ areas.
By Nina Pullman - 18th September 2020
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- Animal welfare
- Ethical business
- Organics
Sirloin, rib-eye or retired?
Meet the farmer selling meat from retired dairy cows to apply organic ethics to end of life and pioneer an alternative to the short life-cycle dairy industry.
By Anna Turns - 18th September 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
For the love of figs
To celebrate peak Spanish fig season, grower José Maria Agusti gives us a snapshot of how this unique fruit is grown and picked on his farm near Barcelona.
By Becky Blench - 18th September 2020
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Politics
Oatly faces backlash over investor choice
Sustainable oat milk brand Oatly is facing criticism and delistings over its choice of investment from Blackstone, a private equity firm with alleged links to deforestation and donations to the Trump…
By Nina Pullman - 15th September 2020
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- News from the farm
An uncomfortable truth
Recently we suffered the most devastating soil loss that I have seen in over 50 years of farming.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 10th September 2020
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