- 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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Coronavirus
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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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- Cartoon
- Eating & drinking
Ellis: Tech at the table
Ellis sums up the mood for families and friends apart after weeks of lockdown who still find solace in sharing food.
By Ellis - 18th February 2021
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- Biodiversity
- Organics
Brexit threatens heritage and organic seed supply
New Brexit paperwork, huge demand for local food and a surge in lockdown gardening have left small seed suppliers capping orders and facing shortages, risking long-term biodiversity in the UK.
By Nina Pullman - 5th February 2021
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- Climate change
- Local sourcing
The pandemic has taught us how to change
Now we have proved that we can change dramatically, we can face changing what we eat to lower our impact with greater confidence and power.
By Sue Norris - 29th January 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
A feast fit for a restaurant
Get the table set with some beautiful ‘tablescaping’, swap the saggy joggers for something swish and recreate these vibrant flavours for a home-cooked feast fit for a restaurant.
By Becky Blench - 28th January 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
How to cook through a third lockdown
Send homemade treats to distant friends, test out a new cuisine, or simply revert to comfort food – here are our cooking tips for lockdown three.
By Emily Muddeman - 13th January 2021
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- News from the farm
- Environment & ethics
Hope in a collective world
My hope is that 2021 will mark the start of the decline of the cult of individual wealth and fame, along with all the waste and loneliness that go with it.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 7th January 2021
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- Food waste
Sudden lockdown sends school dinners to waste
The last-minute closure of schools has left perishable food enough for 15 million school dinners destined for the bin and suppliers giving away produce on social media.
By Nina Pullman - 6th January 2021
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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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