- Grow your own
Seed saving in the time of corona
When lockdown took hold, seed companies ran dry as many turned their hand to growing their own food. Here's how to save your own seeds for next year’s growing.
By Sarah Brown - 4th September 2020
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How to grow your dinner
Urban grower Claire Ratinon explores the potential of even the smallest spaces to grow food in this extract from her new book, How to Grow Your Dinner.
By Claire Ratinon - 24th August 2020
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- Local sourcing
- Grow your own
Coronavirus causes spike in demand for allotments
Councils have seen a 'significant increase' in allotment applications as The Black Farmer backs campaign for church and government to help free up more land.
By Nina Pullman - 10th August 2020
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- Organics
Sowing winter vegetables
This month's GYO Wicked Leeks gardening column tackles what winter veg to start sowing now to bring colour to your winter veg patch.
By Sarah Brown - 30th July 2020
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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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- Eating & drinking
Edible flowers and where to find them
Edible flowers are a colourful and nutritious addition to summer salads and useful friends in your veg patch – gardener Penny Hemming lists her favourites.
By Penny Hemming - 23rd June 2020
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- Organics
The art of home brew for plants
There is a bewildering array of plant feeds available, but before you get out your wallet, try making your own - it’s simple, sustainable and free.
By Sarah Brown - 5th June 2020
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- Organics
Learning to love weeds
Turning nettle stems into plant ties or basking in the brilliant blue of a forget-me-not – here’s how you can manage and learn to love your garden weeds.
By Sarah Brown - 29th April 2020
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- 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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- Biodiversity
- Environment & ethics
Campaigners gear up to protect nature
The National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts have both issued new calls to protect and restore nature via conservation efforts and designated ‘wild belt’ areas.
By Nina Pullman - 18th September 2020
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- Animal welfare
- Ethical business
- Organics
Sirloin, rib-eye or retired?
Meet the farmer selling meat from retired organic dairy cows to apply the ethical values of organic to end of life and pioneer an alternative to the short life-cycle dairy industry.
By Anna Turns - 18th September 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
For the love of figs
To celebrate peak Spanish fig season, grower José Maria Agusti gives us a snapshot of how this unique fruit is grown and picked on his farm near Barcelona.
By Becky Blench - 18th September 2020
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Politics
Oatly faces backlash over investor choice
Sustainable oat milk brand Oatly is facing criticism and delistings over its choice of investment from Blackstone, a private equity firm with alleged links to deforestation and donations to the Trump…
By Nina Pullman - 15th September 2020
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- News from the farm
An uncomfortable truth
Recently we suffered the most devastating soil loss that I have seen in over 50 years of farming.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 10th September 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Eat more veg
Know your autumn squash varieties
Marvellously bright and beautifully varied veg that herald the start of autumn - get to know the different squash varieties and how to use them.
By Wicked Leeks - 9th September 2020
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