- Eating & drinking
- Farming
Top of the shots
Winners of the annual Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Awards show a year of lockdown and the sharing, harvesting and preparing food across the world.
By Nina Pullman - 11th May 2021
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- Plastic
- Nature
- Mental health
Charity launches biggest-ever UK beach clean
Charity Surfers Against Sewage hopes to galvanise 100,000 Brits to clean a million miles of rivers, beaches and green spaces to counter the rise in single-use plastic since the pandemic.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
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- Inequality
- Farming
- Politics
What can we glean from the loss of the Commons?
The pandemic has brought a fresh perspective on the power of community and feelings of injustice: let’s channel this anger positively and build dignified food security for all, writes David Markson.
By David Markson - 6th April 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Best Easter recipes to celebrate spring veg
Easter might be slightly less sociable this year, but make the most of a sunny forecast and try BBQ-ing your favourite spring veg with our top Easter Day recipes.
By Becky Blench - 1st April 2021
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- News from the farm
- Politics
- Ethical business
Believe in each other, not in markets
The illegitimate faith in greed shown by our PM’s comments this week will lead us over the cliff, destroying all that so many of us love about our country, and ultimately our planet.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 24th March 2021
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Helping us through the Hungry Gap
Will it be too much, I thought, when I asked Paco, Sebastian, Pepe, Manuel, and our other Spanish growers and friends last spring if they would please plant more produce for us?
By Flemming Andersen - 18th March 2021
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- Diversity
- Nature
- Fairtrade
Roots to fruits: Why bananas are the perfect pandemic fruit
Bananas aren’t just our lockdown baking solace, they’re also facing a pandemic of their own, the disease TR4, driven by monocultures and a lack of diversity, finds Louise Gray.
By Louise Gray - 15th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
How to freeze veg
Make your own frozen mash, keep a stash of herbs or learn how to freeze each type of leafy green in these top tips for how to freeze veg.
By Bob Andrew - 2nd March 2021
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
How to freeze fruit
From a segment of lemon for an emergency G&T to ready-to-go fruit compotes – here’s how to freeze what fruit.
By Bob Andrew - 1st March 2021
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- The big interview
- Eating & drinking
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For the love of food
Honey & Co’s Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich are the ultimate foodie travellers, telling Nina Pullman about the joy of hyper seasonal eating and how to find where the locals eat.
By Nina Pullman - 17th June 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
How to celebrate the Veg New Year
After months of eating hardy winter veg propped up by colourful additions from the continent, it’s an absolute joy to be eating fresh and local again.
By James Evans - 17th June 2021
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- News from the farm
A samphire start to summer
Every year we worry that the annual samphire will be out-competed by salt-tolerant perennials like sea purslane, but there seems to be just enough movement of the mud to keep the habitat open.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 16th June 2021
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- Plastic
- Packaging
- Ethical business
Why we need to become a refill nation
Alongside the opportunity to shop via refills, we also need to work on our own mindset. Surely the minor inconvenience of taking containers with us is a worthy price to pay to help cut plastic?
By Becky Blench - 16th June 2021
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- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
- Organics
Your questions answered
Ever wondered what rewilding actually means? Or what’s the difference between grass-fed and organic? Or perhaps you’ve heard it’s good to cut down meat but don’t know why or how?
By Wicked Leeks - 16th June 2021
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- Environment & ethics
- Grow your own
- Net zero
B&Q leads on peat-free compost
Garden retailer becomes the first to commit to 100 per cent peat-free compost after attention grows on the urgent need to protect peatlands and store carbon.
By Rebecca Smithers - 15th June 2021
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