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This has been our second year of growing veg. I’d never even been on a farm before when we took on the tenancy at this National Trust farm five years ago.
We must learn to farm for carbon, biodiversity and food in the same space, with differing local emphasis according to land quality and ecological sensitivity.
With a focus on regenerative farming, a cover interview with ethical restaurateur Asma Khan and we answer your questions on price, plastic and organic farming. Plus the joy of seasonal summer eating.
Meat production is at the heart of the environmental crisis, so could so-called ‘vegan organic’ farming using no animals at all be the answer to our problems? Jack Thompson finds out more.
Around the time of the Black Lives Matter protests last year, I was stopped in my tracks when I read the statement ‘the family farm is a colonial concept’, writes farmer’s son Col Gordon.
Issue 12: Fairness and five years.
Find out more about Wicked Leeks and our publisher, organic veg box company Riverford.