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Topic: Farming

Farmer in field of peas
Opinion

Organic farming is far from a slice of cake

When you’re growing organically, you’ve got to really stay on your toes and always be ready to adapt to the conditions, writes grower Jono Smales.

Farming News from the farm Organics
Strawberry picking
Films

Farming: A labour of no love

Ethical business Farming Price
Cheap chicken
News

Ukraine war ‘could end cheap chicken’

Biodiversity Eating and drinking Farming Meat Politics
Opinion

Food strategy; another casualty of dysfunctional politics

We are going to leave the future of our food and farming to market forces, and to the choices of consumers who are surrounded by foods that are killing them.

Environment and ethics Farming Health Inequality Politics
Bread
Features

Grains of change

Arable farming is at the heart of a broken food system built around chemicals and monocultures, but what is the best way to transform it at the pace that is needed? Anna Turns investigates.

Healthy plate of food
News

Johnson’s food strategy slammed as ‘feeble’

The government’s food strategy ducks bold action on food, ignoring the majority of Henry Dimbleby’s recommendations to fix the food system.

Hemp
News

Farmers join mass disobedience campaign to grow hemp

Growers, gardeners and campaigners are hosting a ‘mass grow’ in Bristol this week to protest strict rules preventing them from growing hemp.

Community highlight

'I started what I thought would be a simple barbecue pop-up last year and thought it would be easy to source everything from close by. I quickly found that it wasn't...'

Slothy Chef on “Can sustainable food feed Britain?”