- Climate change
- Farming
- Biodiversity
From desert to diversity
Meet the farmer transforming bare fields into a food forest with an antidote to desertification in Spain and beyond.
By Anna Turns - 27th April 2020
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Farming
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- Dairy
- Farming
- Price
Spilt milk: Covid-19 and dairy
Covid-19 has sent milk prices tumbling and caused public shock at wasted milk, but the crisis in dairy is much more long-term.
By Megan Tatum - 26th April 2020
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- News from the farm
- Biodiversity
- Farming
Spring brings busy bees and new faces
The warm weather has brought spring on with a vengeance, and already a host of insects are emerging from winter dormancy.
By Ed Scott - 22nd April 2020
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- Organics
- Farming
Meet the veg of tomorrow
Mini vegetables for smaller households, caulis that can thrive in heat and new stripy aubergines – here’s what’s coming over the hill in organic seed breeding.
By Michael Barker - 21st April 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Food waste
- Environment & ethics
Covid shapes new food habits
Cooking more from scratch, throwing less food away and trying a veg box are among the widespread new food habits in the UK, a new YouGov survev finds.
By Nina Pullman - 21st April 2020
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- Farming
- Grow your own
Food and farming reaches home classrooms
New ‘Lockdown Learning’ platform offers home school resources and videos around how food is produced straight from farmers across the country.
By Nina Pullman - 17th April 2020
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Running to seed
Most farmers self-isolate by choice anyway (it comes with the job); add to that the new-found appreciation for food, and I reckon we are the lucky ones.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 15th April 2020
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- News from the farm
- Environment & ethics
- Farming
Frogs, baseline readjustment and hope
Perhaps it is not inevitable that half our food is imported, that what we do grow is picked by imported hands, and that culinary fulfilment is dependent on vast choice.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 9th April 2020
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- Farming
- Local sourcing
- Inequality
A question of ownership
A scheme helping new farmers to access land is creating a network of small-scale regenerative farms and tackle the imbalance in land ownership in the UK.
By Anna Turns - 8th April 2020
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Latest articles
- Ethical business
- Fairtrade
Pressure grows over KitKat Fairtrade decision
World Chocolate Day will take place among growing pressure for Nestle to reverse decision to stop buying Fairtrade cocoa and sugar.
By Nina Pullman - 7th July 2020
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- Plastic
- Packaging
- Food waste
Poland’s plastic alternative
A sustainable packaging start-up is collecting waste fruit and veg from farms and converting it into an edible packaging material using the kombucha drink fermentation technique.
By Juliette Bretan - 6th July 2020
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- Veg Hacks
- Recipes
Veg Hacks: Radish pickle
Learn how to pickle radishes in this week's Veg Hack with chef James Evans.
By James Evans - 3rd July 2020
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- Grow your own
Wise watering
Water is a precious resource – July's GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to use it wisely in your garden, maximise soil moisture and conserve water if you’re going away.
By Sarah Brown - 2nd July 2020
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- News from the farm
Blueberries in the blood
Even up until the 1990s, we were the only ones growing them in the UK – that was before the health benefits around antioxidants became known and it really took off.
By David Trehane - 2nd July 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
- News from the farm
Making measurement count
As previously, transport is our biggest sin, and the final delivery to the door is the most carbon costly – so we are converting over 70 per cent of our vans to electric by 2023.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 1st July 2020
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